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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 2398361" data-attributes="member: 4">It's sometimes hard for me to accept the fact that I can never be young again, I can never have a "first time" again w/regards to D&D, and I can't erase what I know now and "discover" D&D again.  I did have a bit of that feeling when D&D3 was released, and a little again at the start of my current AU campaign.  Maybe that's why people like starting new campaigns.  Maybe that's why some people (not me, but some) like to learn new games -- that "it's all new again" experience.I do get a charge out of reading through older D&D stuff -- not because it's better, but because it's all there, in my brain, waiting to be dredged up out of the murky depths.  It tickles my brain unlike anything else.  But I know that trying to actually *play* with that material would only lead to disappointment.  Reading it and reliving it is enough to cure my nostalgia needs.  The important thing now, in my current games, is to have a good time and make some *new* memories that I'll cherish down the road.</blockquote>