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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 3320383" data-attributes="member: 16574">I like to think of myself as a casual gamer, but, alas, I don't think I'm fooling anybody <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> Seriously, I was extremely hardcore as a kid, but my current interest in the game is almost entirely residue of that -- my huge collection of gaming stuff, arsenal of convention stories from the 80s and 90s, and the fact that to this day I still have the OD&D and 1E AD&D rules more-or-less memorized. My actual attitude towards the game nowadays is very casual: I'm a player in the current group with a less-than-stellar attendance record, I don't make up (or even read) new rules or adventures (probably the actual #1 reason why I still prefer OD&D and 1E -- because I'm lazy; I already know those games (residue of my hardcore past) wheras a newer game I'd have to actually expend some effort reading/learning), I don't bother bringing a copy of the rules to sessions (and wouldn't even bring dice if I thought the other players would let me get away with it), I never think about the rules or campaign away from the table, etc. I do waste a lot of time posting on this and other D&D messageboards (like I'm doing right now) but it's 1) mostly done as a time-killer while I'm at work (much more a comment on my interest in my job than my interest in D&D -- if I wasn't wasting time here I'd be wasting it somewhere else -- music sites, movie sites, etc.), and 2) much more about socializing and telling old war-stories (more residue of my hardcore past) than actual "game-talk" (rules-talk, creative stuff, etc.).</blockquote>

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