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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5363078" data-attributes="member: 22779">This chestnut gets brought out time and time again.&nbsp; Why is that?&nbsp; Why is this meme that, at some mythical time in the past, we were all deeply involved role players, who scoffed at combat and each session was a performance equaled only by the greatest actors of the time only to be subverted by new games which turned us all into mindless combat wombats who do nothing but throw dice at imaginary monsters?Does people not actually go back and READ those old materials?&nbsp; Or read through the &quot;Let's Read Dragon Magazine&quot; thread?&nbsp; Hack and slash have been part and parcel for D&amp;D since the very first days.&nbsp; Hell, Dragonlance is actually panned for trying to bring plot into the game!&nbsp; It took nearly twenty years from the days of Chainmail until 2e D&amp;D to actually get REWARDS for role playing into the game.The more things change...&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm&nbsp; &nbsp; :-S" data-shortname=":-S" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5363078, member: 22779"] This chestnut gets brought out time and time again. Why is that? Why is this meme that, at some mythical time in the past, we were all deeply involved role players, who scoffed at combat and each session was a performance equaled only by the greatest actors of the time only to be subverted by new games which turned us all into mindless combat wombats who do nothing but throw dice at imaginary monsters? Does people not actually go back and READ those old materials? Or read through the "Let's Read Dragon Magazine" thread? Hack and slash have been part and parcel for D&D since the very first days. Hell, Dragonlance is actually panned for trying to bring plot into the game! It took nearly twenty years from the days of Chainmail until 2e D&D to actually get REWARDS for role playing into the game. The more things change... :-S [/QUOTE]

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