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<blockquote data-quote="mhd" data-source="post: 8317121" data-attributes="member: 16805"><p>My experience pretty much mirrors yours. I became disenchanted with TDE around that time -- I had GURPS, so the 4th edition seemed badly designed <em>and</em> veered from the zero-to-hero assumption of my formative years, and the background went Dark Lord all of a sudden. And this coincided with 3E coming out, and thus me finally finding a D&D I liked.</p><p>But it still manages to pull me in. Mostly because it's sufficently different from most other games. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh boy, yeah. I knew very few people who played this, but almost all of them played it exclusively. Even more so than the hardcore TDE followers. But the Russian Dolls nest further, if you've ever met a "Magira" player, who consider Midgard to be new-fangled splitters.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Wasn't the translation of Tunnels & Trolls ("Schwerer & Dämonen") done before that? Where there are a lot more direct parallels to TDE, 1st edition (armor as DR, weird spell names, increasing attributes each level etc.).</p><p></p><p>But yeah, the RPG scene was tiny back then, and translators were rare -- the Fanpro people participated in quite a lot, and did layout for a few others (e.g. the German edition of HârnMaster).</p><p></p><p>Since 3E came out, one or two persons in my group tended to have the German PHB, maybe some other book, too. But I personally mostly bought the the originals: They came out earlier, they came out at all, there was nothing lost in translation, and they were cheaper (German book price fixing be damned).</p><p></p><p>Lately that seems to have changed. As opposed to the 3E people, Ulissess seems to be able to keep up with both 5E and the even more prolific Paizo. I hope that this new turn is a change in name only and that it's still the same people working at the same pace afterwards. Probably not for me personally, but it's good for the hobby.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mhd, post: 8317121, member: 16805"] My experience pretty much mirrors yours. I became disenchanted with TDE around that time -- I had GURPS, so the 4th edition seemed badly designed [I]and[/I] veered from the zero-to-hero assumption of my formative years, and the background went Dark Lord all of a sudden. And this coincided with 3E coming out, and thus me finally finding a D&D I liked. But it still manages to pull me in. Mostly because it's sufficently different from most other games. Oh boy, yeah. I knew very few people who played this, but almost all of them played it exclusively. Even more so than the hardcore TDE followers. But the Russian Dolls nest further, if you've ever met a "Magira" player, who consider Midgard to be new-fangled splitters. Wasn't the translation of Tunnels & Trolls ("Schwerer & Dämonen") done before that? Where there are a lot more direct parallels to TDE, 1st edition (armor as DR, weird spell names, increasing attributes each level etc.). But yeah, the RPG scene was tiny back then, and translators were rare -- the Fanpro people participated in quite a lot, and did layout for a few others (e.g. the German edition of HârnMaster). Since 3E came out, one or two persons in my group tended to have the German PHB, maybe some other book, too. But I personally mostly bought the the originals: They came out earlier, they came out at all, there was nothing lost in translation, and they were cheaper (German book price fixing be damned). Lately that seems to have changed. As opposed to the 3E people, Ulissess seems to be able to keep up with both 5E and the even more prolific Paizo. I hope that this new turn is a change in name only and that it's still the same people working at the same pace afterwards. Probably not for me personally, but it's good for the hobby. [/QUOTE]
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