[Lenin]

Ah, it must be 25 years since I last laid eyes on a copy of Blackmoor. This review brings a happy tear of nostalgia to my eye. Oh, for the good old days of hack'n'slash, before all this role-playing navel-gazing that infests rpg.net. In those days, your role as a fighter was to kill things, your role as a magic-user was to kill things with magic, your role as a cleric was to kill things and heal the other players, and your role as a thief was to steal stuff. Anything else was just chrome.

Ah, me. The other poster had it right, about the youthful verve in those old modules, the banging together of ideas and genres to see what delights the fusion could bring. Hack, mix & play!