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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8597727" data-attributes="member: 50987">I miss the good old days too, but there's plenty of good to be had here in the new.Yes, I miss the days when creating a character or running a battle took minutes instead of hours.  I miss being able to play through an entire adventure module in a single session, both because of the way that modules were written and because I had fewer obligations and time commitments.  I miss being able to buy a brand-new D&D book with my $10/week spending allowance.  Hell, I miss getting an allowance!  I miss being young, and being able to stay up all night with my friends and still have the energy for a trip to the mall.  I miss Aaron and Brian, two of my buddies who played that adventure with me that weekend, and who passed away in 2018 and 2019, respectively.  I don't think the Old-School Renaissance is going to fix any of this.The here-and-now can be frustrating for old grognards like me.  I'm frustrated with the amount of prep time that I need (and how it's never enough no matter how much I set aside), how I have to upload .JPGs and scale them and rig them and juggle tokens around.  And I am especially frustrated that I can't get by with just quickly reading 30 pages and handing out sheets of graph paper.  No matter what we do, we always need an hour of tech support and troubleshooting before we can even begin, and we are already (and always) on a tight schedule.But the here-and-now has little bits of gold, too, if you know where to look.  You know what I do like?  I like being able to schedule a gaming session electronically, and being able to play D&D with my buddies who live in different cities and different time zones.  We can laugh and cuss and drink together like the last 30 years never happened. I love being at a place in my career where I can afford to collect those old books and adventure modules, or I can have them printed on demand.  And I love, dearly love, that I can pour myself a bit of bourbon on a quiet summer evening and flip through the pages of Master of the Desert Nomads, and I can find my own handwriting in the margins.  That's the best.  That's when the memories come back so strongly, I swear I'm seeing ghosts.</blockquote>

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