With WotC long whoring out D&D to normies who watched critical roll, where can I get this feeling anymore?The pic is from a pinball game but reminds me so much of 2e. With humor everywhere, detailed art, anachronisms everywhere for comic relief while still having verisimilitude to a "totally not medieval" feel. You don't get that from modern D&D where everything feels like fantasy Seattle with dumbass english accents. Any "medieval" aspects just feel vestigial and tacked on at this point. Its hard to explain what I feel when I look at this image but it feels like it has more personality and fun than anything modern D&D. Like the closest I got to feeling in a long time this was playing the "orcs must die" series.And I don't think its the Blackrock pandering, or the lazy artstyle or the focus on selling to normies (as much as all those things suck) but I kinda just want a gay rollicking romp through a trap filled fairyland castle killing orcs with the boys and maybe even smooch an elf at the end of it.
>>92606025Like theres a kind of grit in oldschool art that you don't see in things like The Legend Of Vox Machina. Which seem to be trying to ape or are at least influenced by anime. Everything is just so clean and oddly muted
>>92606025I believe the answer is still AD&D or early hackmaster. Fantasy mediaeval games from the past 25 years take themselves more seriously, whether its MRQ/Mythras, Rolemaster, Hârn, ACKS, The One Ring, The Dark Eye, Dungeon Fantasy RPG - they're less humour filled.
>>92606025You answered your own question. 2E.
>>92606025Roll up OSR and crank some Dungeon Synth, brotherhttps://youtu.be/OxgVmpAk538?si=HSHOLN_HPSikuL9i
>>92606025Play AD&D. It still works, you just need a group who yearn to return and one of them has to be willing to map dungeons.
>>92606025Brancaloniawhich is D&D as a pastiche of comedic fantasy/ historical films from Italy
>>92609872Not OP, but can you sell me on it? I like the sound of the premise as you've described, but I always like to know more.
>>92606025Las Vegas.
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>>92606025who painted that? I love it
>>92606025>>92606165cringe and reddit
