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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9518557" data-attributes="member: 6796661">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.&nbsp; &quot;Dag nab it, you still expect me to keep up with constantly changing law and technology and then come home and try to understand and compare the 4 or 5 different rule variants for channeling and casting in Warhammer Fantasy AND troubleshoot VTT modules!&nbsp; Why don't you get a proper hobby for someone your age. Walking. Fishing. Something like that!&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Shut up brain! Just be happy I dropped trying to run MAGE: The Ascension!&quot;I'm too lazy to look up the science on this; I swear I read an article on it sometime, somewhere; but I find that my recognition is better than it was in my youth, but my recall has gone to hell in a hand basket. Decades of experience being a geek and a bookworm are great for understanding new things I read and making connections, but boy do does it take a lot more time to create the grooves in the gray matter to be able to bring something to mind when I need it.When I was young, I would read over rules a day or two before a game and run it and would run games in multiple systems. Today that feels like self elder abuse.This is really the only major thing affecting my gaming that is 100% age related. I'm curious whether this will improve or get worse. Get worse, because I'll get older. But then once the kids are out of the house, and especially when I eventually retire, perhaps having less stress and less demands on my brain will improve things in this area.Anyway, just musing. Would be interested on how gaming has changed for the better or worse for others getting up in years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9518557, member: 6796661"] While I'm not [I]that[/I] 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 understand and compare the 4 or 5 different rule variants for channeling and casting in Warhammer Fantasy AND troubleshoot VTT modules! Why don't you get a proper hobby for someone your age. Walking. Fishing. Something like that!" "Shut up brain! Just be happy I dropped trying to run MAGE: The Ascension!" I'm too lazy to look up the science on this; I swear I read an article on it sometime, somewhere; but I find that my [I]recognition[/I] is better than it was in my youth, but my [I]recall[/I] has gone to hell in a hand basket. Decades of experience being a geek and a bookworm are great for understanding new things I read and making connections, but boy do does it take a lot more time to create the grooves in the gray matter to be able to bring something to mind when I need it. When I was young, I would read over rules a day or two before a game and run it and would run games in multiple systems. Today that feels like self elder abuse. This is really the only major thing affecting my gaming that is 100% age related. I'm curious whether this will improve or get worse. Get worse, because I'll get older. But then once the kids are out of the house, and especially when I eventually retire, perhaps having less stress and less demands on my brain will improve things in this area. Anyway, just musing. Would be interested on how gaming has changed for the better or worse for others getting up in years. [/QUOTE]

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