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#Grognard

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My hot take for 2024 and beyond:

#DnD5E is wildly better than any #OSR version of #DnD

Been playing since 1981, don't @ me.

Is D&D the best #fantasy #RPG out there? That's definitely debatable. #5E isn't perfect, and #Hasbro #WotC is a crappy company.

But, "best" is a subjective when it comes to #TTRPGs. Best for what? Best for whom? Best *at* what?

The #OSR #grognard community can also be really unwelcoming, offputtingly arrogant and snobbish. And I didn't even mention racist and sexist.

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A #dice set mixing just one die is the kind of thing that can drive an old game collector crazy, and I was a collector back then.

I'd stopped playing #DnD in 1999 because I didn't like Third Edition, but restarted five years later when I decided it was OK to be an old #grognard who specialized in old versions of D&D. A major part of embracing my grognard roots was using eBay to hunt down all the classic gaming accessories I'd missed the first time around... including dice.

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The answer was simple, but at the time, a bit shocking: My millennial girlfriend's #DnD set was hand-me-down from her father, who claimed he bought the game back in the 1970s, but never played it, because "it was too complex." (I laughed in #grognard at that.)

For the first time in my then-40 years, I was dating someone young enough to have *inherited* her D&D stuff from her parents. I've never felt more like a cradle-robber in my life!