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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 4896617" data-attributes="member: 463">If you never played 'Old School' back in the day, I don't think it can be nostalgia.I never played or ran Moldvay B/X D&D back in the day, but I now use the Labyrinth Lord retro-clone as my game of choice (and James Malizewski appears to be going in that direction, also).  Because B/X and LL are a great, simple, clean game that is very easy to use, and that's what I want for online play especially.If I were trying to recapture the feel of the 1e AD&D (with Unearthed Arcana) that I ran as a teenager, full of PC Drow, Cavaliers, and hacking through Legends & Lore, yes that would be nostalgia.  Those who are trying to recapture their youth via Old School are influenced by nostalgia.  Nothing wrong with that, but it's only part of the Old School movement.</blockquote>