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Further pro-tip, if you ARE a project manager, don't have an affair that leads to the woman you had an affair with giving birth during an important project deadline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locke_(film) As someone who worked for years as a project manager (not in constructions, but I...

Demons pale compared to sewers.

So players can fight gods. The ultimate boss level. Not how I like to run my games now--wait my last campaign, which ran for 5 years, ended with a battle against the avatar of Orcus... I mean, it was a fun >10 hours of play.

Do you mean if you are running the software on your computer, or do you mean for the players as well? If you use a hosting service, I wouldn't think it would be more of a resource hog than Roll 20, and would be less so than Fantasy Grounds.

Yeah, I've relearned the magic of physical books. I've also gone back to taking notes in meetings on paper note pads. It seems to help. For reading, I find the paperwhite kindles are almost as good. But only for reading. Horrible to use for reference materials and rule books.

Well, that ain't me. Perhaps the greatest entertainment for my kids is getting me to play a video game with them and watching me get to the point of throwing the controller at couch and rage quitting. I'll just sit over here, happily playing my CRPGs on story mode, letting my teenage son's...

Yeah, recall has gone done. Not just in gaming. Not just physical age, but with wife, kids, and a new job, there is a LOT to keep track of. I think my brain just drew a line at TTRPG rules and character/place names. Thank goodness for searchable, cross-linkable, digital content!

I suspect that not gaming for over 20 years before I got back into it plays a role. When 5e came out and I got back into running games, it took me a while to get comfortable with it before I started DMing. Another part of it may just be that I care more about understanding the rules and doing a...

I love this cover so much. Does Collins have a website where I can see more of her work?

Apparently I want all my stuff on all the platforms. Not really, but the amount of times I've bought the same content for multiple platforms and formats belies any pretense of frugality. My problem is that I'm lazy and will buy things for immediate convenience, even if I don't have a clear...

Highly dependent on a person's personality (hi, I'm captain obvious!). When I was playing in person, I had a good area in the house for gaming, but it was multipurpose and was used for crafts, other projects, etc. most of the time. So every game day I would move tables around bring in some more...

I really am mad at younger me for not holding on to my copy Deities and Demigods with the later removed content.

Are you against playing online? Makes it much easier to play when not near a population center with a lot of gamers and finding games other than D&D.

Yeah, this is a huge advantage to gaming when older. Assuming no job loss or crazy health expenses. But I've been fortunate so far... I find this the opposite. Work and family responsibilities and schedules make keeping to regular schedule difficult. My solution has been to schedule one long...

For the most part I agree, but I played every edition of D&D at Gamehole Con last month, and enjoyed each one. But, yeah, I'm not going to run AD&D as a campaign ever again.

Have you thought of gifting him a dice tower this X-mas? :) I've never really gotten into dice towers. I just love the feeling of rolling dice too much. But they do help keeping dice on the table.

Lot's of good advice in the comments above. I've tested most of the major VTTs over the years, though I'm a bit out of date since I've settled on Foundry. But based on your post, I think I have a few good recommendations. If you want to play D&D, get D&D Beyond and use its character sheets...

Run it serious, embrace the inevitable comedy.

I have 4. The first, like you is my Curse of Strahd, 5th Edition book. Even though I ran a home brew campaign for a little over a year after getting back into TTRPGs with 5e, I loved Ravenloft (I6) back in 1e, and this books most strongly represents that mix of nolstalgia and fresh D&D that...

While I'm not that old (early 50s), I'm at the age where I now need reading glasses and my brain increasingly rebels at me trying to cram more TTRPG rules and lore into it. "Dag nab it, you still expect me to keep up with constantly changing law and technology and then come home and try to...