* * * Wizards Community Thread * * * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thread : D&D Memories Started at 05-21-05 09:43 PM by MasterLothar Visit at http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=433716 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 1] Author : MasterLothar Date : 05-21-05 09:43 PM Thread Title : D&D Memories Since we hit the anniversary of D&D, I have noticed that I really miss seeing the TSR logo on the sides of the books. Wouldn't it have been a nice treat for celebrating the anniversary to have WoTC put that old logo on the books for those of us who remember? How many of us miss the clasic adventures of yore. The thrill of the first time we ran across our first orc. Wasn't it just as great as our first battle with a dragon. To me the memories are more than what happened in the game, it was with the people who I played the game with. Friends that I still see to this day, and friends that I probably will never see again. We shared a bond that nothing could ever take away. My fondest memory being that of a simple fox hunt the group got invited on by the king. There was no combat involved that session, Just the seven of us having fun, acting out the parts of our characters and enjoying the laid back way our DM was that night. I know the day will come when I have to hang up the dice bag and put the books down. But I look foreward to that day, for in the years of my experience with RPG's alot of memories and friendships have made. Hopefully I will see some of you at a Con sometime. Please share some of your memories with all of us here at the boards. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 2] Author : weasel fierce Date : 05-21-05 11:09 PM Most of my game memories are more about the people I gamed with, than what we did in the game. I think thats pretty much the way it should be too. My most enjoyable memories are of playing a swedish RPG derivative of Runequest. Two of my friends both wanted to game with the rest of us, but they hated each other. However, they figured out they had to get along, in order to game. Later, they became the best of friends. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 3] Author : Tenzhi Date : 05-22-05 02:06 AM The first adventure I ever played was Temple of Elemental Evil (complete with the Village of Hommlet pre-adventure). It remains to this day my favourite published adventure. I've been through it at least 4 times and it's been a different experience each time though a couple of things have been consistent - someone always gets eaten by a giant toad, and someone always gets flattened by the juggernaut in the water temple. My second favourite published adventure happened much later in my role-playing "career." We started out as 18-20th level characters just to run through the Labyrinthe of Madness. That's one heckuva dungeon crawl. I played a halfling thief who somehow ended up being the leader of the group (that often happens to my characters, for some reason). Part of my starting equipment was a hornblade? - the shortsword/dagger from 2nd Ed that in the hands of a halfling would cut through stone and wood like butter. Early in the adventure we ran into a devious trap involving a Reverse Gravity button. I used my magic dagger to cut the button out of the wall and we ran around with this stone block wreaking various sorts of chaotic havok and changing the nature of many of the trapped areas. Good times. At the end I set off with the Battlerager and his brother with plans to create an airship utilizing the button. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 4] Author : TheDungeonDelver Date : 05-22-05 03:10 PM Screw the logo. Reissue the books. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 5] Author : Cravensson Date : 05-26-05 05:55 PM How many of us miss the clasic adventures of yore. The thrill of the first time we ran across our first orc. Wasn't it just as great as our first battle with a dragon. Really, you can only have the thrill of your first game once. Yes, I do miss the old days, and the people I used to game with. I have only kept in touch with one of them, and he never talks to me any more since I married his aunt. (Long story). And I can predict that 1st Edition AD&D will be re-released about the time it becomes very cold in certain very warm places. Sad, perhaps, but true. Nostalgia is wonderful, but it doesn't sell the amount of new books Hasbro demands. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 6] Author : WizzyBlackmore Date : 05-27-05 01:31 AM screw the reissues....find mint vintage copies...keep it real! I did, do and forever will! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 7] Author : WizzyBlackmore Date : 05-27-05 01:36 AM BTW if Hasbro reissued the old box sets '74 to say '86 along w/ the core books, some key mods/accessories and it caught on.....everyone here would be disgusted and saddened....the warm feelings of nostalgia would be cheapened by a giant company attempting to cash in on the glory days of a game that is very private to many before it became the bastardized version it is today......again, keep it real.....I believe I have spoken :cool: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 8] Author : TheDungeonDelver Date : 05-27-05 04:54 PM BTW if Hasbro reissued the old box sets '74 to say '86 along w/ the core books, some key mods/accessories and it caught on.....everyone here would be disgusted and saddened....the warm feelings of nostalgia would be cheapened by a giant company attempting to cash in on the glory days of a game that is very private to many before it became the bastardized version it is today......again, keep it real.....I believe I have spoken :cool: Bullcrap. I don't play AD&D for "nostalgia purposes". I play AD&D because it's the best thing going. If HasbrWotC re-released the core sets and it garnered many, many new fans I'd jump for joy. As would most if not all of my fellow old-school gamers. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 9] Author : WizzyBlackmore Date : 05-27-05 05:31 PM Hasbro 1st Ed.? Disturbing........Picking up a DMG Effritti cover w/ a Hasbro logo? Can't Picture it......btw how does one who played 1st ed. in 79-81 not feel nostalgic? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 10] Author : chatdemon Date : 05-28-05 07:22 AM As a player of Classic (Basic, Expert, et al or Cyclopedia) D&D, I have to agree with the basic sentiment that WotC/Hasbro reissuing the game would probably be a disappointment. There's just no proclaimed love for the old school games in the WotC design department, that I'm aware of. Sure, there's nostalgia, and respectful nods to the past, but real "I want to play this game!" love is missing. OTOH, if a smaller, 3rd party company was to acquire a license or something, and showed a respect and love for the old school games, I'd hope for the best. Not everyone enjoys Hackmaster or C&C, but to me, regardless of preference for those systems, it is obvious that those guys do indeed play those games, and enjoy them immensely. Pipe dreams of course, but pleasant ones... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 11] Author : GreyLord Date : 05-28-05 09:11 AM I wouldn't have a problem with WotC/Hasbro releasing the old editions. I enjoy playing them and wouldn't mind a new set of them. Preferably I'd like a 1e with the UA arcana rules included... But that's just me. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 12] Author : weasel fierce Date : 05-28-05 11:14 AM I'd settle for an Unearthed Arcana where the pages stay in the book... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 13] Author : Stonebeard Date : 05-28-05 07:34 PM Balongna to all the above! Its not classic D&D we miss nor is it nostalgia... we'd all just love to be that young and free from responsibility again to play the game we love, whatever version, till we drop like we did back then. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 14] Author : Mr Dark Date : 05-28-05 11:32 PM Hasbro 1st Ed.? Disturbing........Picking up a DMG Effritti cover w/ a Hasbro logo? Can't Picture it......btw how does one who played 1st ed. in 79-81 not feel nostalgic? Yes, but I remember an interview where the original creators took the game to Parker Brothers or Mattel, imagine if they bit into what they had. With the buyouts that happened later onit seems Hasbro would have owned D&D a bit earlier. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Downloaded from Wizards Community (http://forums.gleemax.com) at 05-10-08 08:16 AM.