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2025-08-12 Influential games

mentioned how D&D 3.0 was really important for him at the time and 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.

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