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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 5767424" data-attributes="member: 11697">I wouldn't say so absolutely, but rather it's an advantage for a person to have been exposed to a bunch of fantasy resources to draw upon for ideas, tropes, inspiration for when they actually run a campaign.I don't consider myself old-school (one generation advanced from old school?), since I only started D&D with 3e. However I subsequently did go back for a lot of 2e stuff, though my 1e knowledge is pretty slim and I've never played a single one of the classic 1e modules.I think I ran a pretty decent campaign for my first one out of the gate though.As for DM's I've played with, the best ones were actually one or two years younger than me, except wierdly enough they'd played all of that old-school material since they got into gaming much earlier. Two folks in particular I'm thinking of, but I also had possible the worst DM I've ever played under who was older than any of us, had played all of the old-school stuff, and was truly terrible as a DM. Like epic bad.So it really depends on the person, but breadth of experience is probably an advantage (old-school or not).</blockquote>