2025-08-12 Influential games
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@Ashigaru@dice.camp mentioned how D&D 3.0 was really important for him
at the time and @dereisenhofer@metalhead.club mentioned him playing
DSA (Das Schwarze Auge, i.e. The Dark Eye). And I thought about my
gaming history.

I moved from The Dark Eye 1st ed that I played as a kid and again as a
15-year old to AD&D 1st ed when I was around 16 because a Canadian
exchange student said it was the original and obviously it had to
better. Some mere months later my group switched to the new AD&D 2nd
ed because obviously new had to be better. And then my interest waned.

Years later, I got into M20 because of the blogs, and my players
wanted to play the just released D&D 3.5 because obviously new had to
better. With the switch to D&D 4 I put my foot down and went with
Labyrinth Lord – and lost almost all my players. 🥺

But I found new ones and kept on playing. So for me, D&D 3.5 stands
for those special years just before the OSR blogs took off, when I
came back to the game.

* 2006-11-09 Nostalgia for Rolplaying Games, where I wish to get back
  into gaming

* 2007-12-11 Looking Back where I list all the Adventure Paths I
  still want to play

* 2010-06-27 Gaming History is where I repeat myself, but in the past
  🤪

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