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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melan" data-source="post: 4885511" data-attributes="member: 1713">Also, a case study on nostalgia: one of my current groups. It is made up of three people as follows:1) Age 18, only slightly older than the time I have been roleplaying. Very much interested in old-school games, and running his own campaign  - I have read his writeups, and they are authentic. Nostalgia?2) Age 18, also interested, is more of a hang back and roll the dice tipe, but likes the campaign just fine. Nostalgia?3) Age 38 or thereabouts, three kids, wife, small company. Mostly experienced with story-based games that were the epitome of not old-school, but very good at rules-independent problem solving; likes the campaign, although plays a bit too carefully for my tastes. Nostalgia?These are people whose background doesn't include even the odd, brief period of quasi-old-school we had in Hungary ca. 1990-1993 before that style fell out of the vogue in between TSR's 2e junk and "more modern" rulesets, and yet they are sitting around my living room table and playing with obvious enthusiasm. I propose that they like what they do independently of rose-coloured glasses or long-suppressed memories from way back.</blockquote>