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<blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 9541351" data-attributes="member: 17913">The thing I know is age-related is my gravitation to lighter games, mostly due to time. Time to read, truly learn, and prep stuff is very low, so I have to be able to do it quickly. Complex interconnectivity of rules has become a no-no. But almost as important as that is that my experience has shown me that I can run great games while needing less stuff to do it with. You'd think that might give me some allowance to stick with medium complexity stuff, but truth is I only need to go in with the barest framework of a system, and I know how to give (most of) my players a good time.The thing I don't know if it's age-related or just totality of life experience (with regards to TTRPG-ing): I'm just kinda tired of doing ANY of the work-work: scheduling, communicating tastes and such during a &quot;session zero&quot; message exchange, providing details for chargen or providing fun choices for pregens, etc. The convergence of &quot;I want people who are at least passingly familiar with the game&quot; and &quot;I want to try this new game!&quot; is a difficult needle to thread, and I'm...worried that I'm just over it. At least for now. When I look at my life-long hobbies/time-sinks of video games, board games, and TTRPGS, really only video games (solo or in-person multiplayer) and board games that I'm already familiar with capture my interest at the moment. And that's a tectonic shift from the past 30-odd years for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="timbannock, post: 9541351, member: 17913"] The thing I know is age-related is my gravitation to lighter games, mostly due to time. Time to read, truly learn, and prep stuff is very low, so I have to be able to do it quickly. Complex interconnectivity of rules has become a no-no. But almost as important as that is that my experience has shown me that I can run great games while needing less stuff to do it with. You'd think that might give me some allowance to stick with medium complexity stuff, but truth is I only need to go in with the barest framework of a system, and I know how to give (most of) my players a good time. The thing I don't know if it's age-related or just totality of life experience (with regards to TTRPG-ing): I'm just kinda tired of doing ANY of the work-work: scheduling, communicating tastes and such during a "session zero" message exchange, providing details for chargen or providing fun choices for pregens, etc. The convergence of "I want people who are at least passingly familiar with the game" and "I want to try this new game!" is a difficult needle to thread, and I'm...worried that I'm just over it. At least for now. When I look at my life-long hobbies/time-sinks of video games, board games, and TTRPGS, really only video games (solo or in-person multiplayer) and board games that I'm already familiar with capture my interest at the moment. And that's a tectonic shift from the past 30-odd years for me. [/QUOTE]

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