Well, ok, I can understand not recognizing the current incarnation as the same game (assuming that is the meaning of your post) What if D&D was _just_ the amat

Well, ok, I can understand not recognizing the current incarnation as the same game (assuming that is the meaning of your post) What if D&D was _just_ the amateur-ish first edition and AD&D had a (proper)name change? Say, "Fantasy Adventures"? Or what if the name change happened between AD&D and the WotC 3rd edition? Would that be the it then? When did "D&D" die? Did it "die" for you when it changed from the version you played as a teen/young person to the next? Cause I played AD&D im my teens and when I see people playing the new stuff I ca recognize most of the "spirit" of those game days of old. Doesn't really seem to matter that much that it has been "commoditized" and is now much more professionally made P.S.: maybe that feeling of awe brought by the rarity of it all is gone - the feeling I got when acquiring a New Book, that none of my friends had seen, usually a partial bootlegged xeroxed version, that I had to travel to an adjacent town by bus in a veritable real-life "quest" to get... maybe that is gone. But I'm sure other wonders can replace it. P.P.S.: it now occurs to me that this feeling is similar to the feeling of discovering and sharing secrets in videogames; which died with the internet