Wouldn't it be fun...

[thormagni]

I just picked up copies of the old D&D Companion and Master sets. Which caused me to break out my old red book and blue book D&D Basic and D&D Expert. It brough lots of good memories back and I was just thinking... Wouldn't it be fun to be able to play D&D again with the same kind of freshness that the game had for me way back when? When a skeleton or an orc was still new and interesting? When your class choices were fighter, thief, cleric, magic-user, elf, dwarf and halfling? I eked an awful lot of good times out of these very thin books.

Anyway, I'm thinking about stuffing these books into my game bag for GenCon. Maybe we could put together a quick, old-school dungeon crawl one night, if everybody is done.

 

[Bob_Probst]

I'm listening.


But I fear that much of the joy we had when we were playing 1st edition had more to do with our age and the newness of the game.

You can never go back, but I'm willing to try!
You should bring along one of the Wizards reprints of 1st edition adventures and we can give it a try.

 

[thormagni]

I'm listening.


But I fear that much of the joy we had when we were playing 1st edition had more to do with our age and the newness of the game.

You can never go back, but I'm willing to try!
You should bring along one of the Wizards reprints of 1st edition adventures and we can give it a try.

Oh yeah. It would be pure nostalgia. The game is inherently better and more sensical now. And there is no way to get that sense of new-ness back. I'm just waxing nostalgic, really. And reprints? Hell, I still have my originals. I've got Isle of Dread and Keep on the Borderlands on my shelf!

 

[Fyrestryke]

Hey! I'll play and then I can tell you guys what it's like the first time as an old fart.

 

[InzeladunMaster]

Sounds like fun to me!