AD/D-2E.....

 If you are at all in the age range of mid 40's you might have been around when the early days of Dungeons and Dragons became a thing some teens got into. Back then well it was basically something only nerds would play. It took a long time to get the stigma off of that idea. Now it is like insane to the level that famous celebrities play games like it. It is no longer a game only for nerds who had no friends. Now do not get me wrong it is not even close today to how it was played when I was like 10. We would play locally at the home of one of the players with food, drinks. It was so much fun playing until 2am. But now the games seem to be played more in shops taking away in my opinion all the fun that made the games fun to begin with. You become limited by space of the room, table and hours of the shop. Miniatures were a big part of the game when I was younger but now it seems they have fallen away. We had game shops that sold all the products you needed for the gaming but never had game rooms to play which was fine with me. I think the more it became somewhat different and less social in my eyes is what pushed me from playing past the age of like 17. I feel it just went downhill past the version of the book you see below.