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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mythmere1" data-source="post: 2038682" data-attributes="member: 26563">Want the tingle back?  I just got it - 38 years old and gamed in all editions, plenty jaded - tried T20 and Deadlands, no big tingle.If you must stay with 3E, buy Necromancer products.  Slight tingle.To get the real thing, buy Castles & Crusades and ignore the typos.  It's like D&D would be if the first edition had just been revised based on a philosophy of lighter rules, but using the best facets of the d20 system.There is a nostalgia tingle, but the real tingle comes from a sudden rush of creativity about what you can do with these freer-form rules.  This is mainly a tingle for DMs.  Player options in character development are actually dialed back unless you house-rule some of them back in.  The game's based on an archetypal system rather than the pick-and-choose options presented by 3E and GURPS.  In consequence, my players complained - but they focused their creative energy on character personality instead of tactical matters, and the result has been a much improved game.It's not for everyone (the light rules truly change the feel of the game), but at our age, $20 isn't a bad price to see if you revitalize that feeling of open gaming horizons.</blockquote>