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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 4899126" data-attributes="member: 17551">Music. Cheesy metal music from the 80's makes me nostalgic.  I don't think it's very good.  I don't listen to it, generally.  But it does remind me of the times I had with my buddies, when I was a kid.The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Rolling Stones I listen to all the time.  I do so because I enjoy it and think it's very good music.  I'm not particularly nostalgic about it, because I was too young for the peak of those artists careers and didn't really discover them until later in life.When I play Encounter Critical, when I dm my B/X campaign set in Goodman's Points of Light setting, when I'm exploring all the new and interesting ideas in the adventures by XRP, Fight On! magazine, and so on, I feel more like when I'm listening to the Beatles and not the cheesy metal.  There are certainly games and products that feel to me more like the metal...  Marvel Super Heroes RPG and some of the late 80's Forgotten Realms products, to name a couple.  But those sit on my shelf largely unopened for a decade, much like my cassette tapes of "Asylum" by KISS and "Slide it In" by Whitesnake sit in a closet somewhere un-listened to.My single longest running campaign as a kid was a messy Basic/1e/2e mix based in the Forgotten Realms.  Four of the seven other guys who played in that campaign, although we're now scattered across the country, remain my best friends.  But I have absolutely no desire to play in that campaign again, or attempt to reproduce it.And I think that's one of the single biggest thing those labeling this OSR thing as nostalgia miss.  We don't want to play these games the same way we did when we were 12.  We want to approach them as adults and explore them in an entirely new way.  Hence the explosion of new product.  We're not trying to recreate old experiences, but create new ones.</blockquote>

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