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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cruentus" data-source="post: 9397828" data-attributes="member: 7034645">What are you doing in my head?!?I've been in a similar boat, having played with the same group of players for 40-some years, and I've realized they want a different style of game than I do at this point.  We all gave up on 5e a little while ago, and moved back to B/X and OSE Advanced.  I'm running (or trying to run) exclusively OSE Advanced games now, and am looking for that more simulationist, deeper world interaction, simpler characters while still being able to reach outside the character sheet.  I've had several campaigns up and running, but was only able to get 1 or 2 players for each one.  That didn't stop me from researching, collecting worlds, deities, tons and tons of PDFs for inspiration, and continue to try to work toward that same-sounding sandbox, open world, evolving/developing story out of the gameplay, and transitioning into realm play, with henchmen going out on "lower level" adventures while the higher level characters are either managing their kingdoms or handling the "big stuff".  BUT, I think I'm just going to have to temper my expectations, and give up on the dream, because it doesn't seem like anyone is interested.  That won't, however, stop my from writing, thinking, tweaking, and maybe even solo-adventuring to test stuff out in the meantime.  I'm just not going to push it.  And I still try to interact with, and read other people's experiences with OSE and old-style games, for ideas and for things for me to consider. So, that's all to say you're not alone in your position, and taking a break to focus on other stuff can't hurt.  Though I did at one point sell off my entire 1e through 3e collection of RPG books, Dragon Mags,  and other assorted materials, which I still regret, and have spent a lot of time re-collecting things.  So shelve it, but never get rid of it.  The hook will always be there and pull you back <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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