If you've read the foreword to Labyrinth Lord then you probably know where I'm coming from. In another post at some other time I may discuss what I think may be happening as we continue on emulating the old-school games, but right now I want to post a link that is a reminder of where it all started.
Labyrinth Lord and the Advanced Edition Companion that will come out shortly are an effort to bring old-school gaming back onto game stores and back onto the modern gamers' tables. But the thing I hope we never lose sight of is that Labyrinth Lord is a tribute.
(For those unfamiliar, you may have to investigate TD a bit to really get this. Nothing beats Stairway to Heaven. IMO old-school D&D is the Stairway to Heaven of RPGs)
Here's another version.
2 comments:
My wife and I can recall where we were when we first saw the TD Tribute clip. We fell in love straight away.
Very much the same feeling as when I held in my hands my copy of Holmes for the first time, my first D&D book. I haven't fallen out of love yet.
Labyrinth Lord and the other the other D&D clones have helped keep that love fresh. My gaming group played a session of LL today, but there's no question in our minds that we were playing D&D.
An excellent post that gets to the point. I like the way this is worded and tribute is a great way of defining the new versions of the old scene, to quote Aerosmith.
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