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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenstone" data-source="post: 3489177" data-attributes="member: 20712">Good griefYour sentiments echo my own position so strongly it's scary...I'm 39, been playing since '84 (Red Box D&D, then 1e, then 2e, then a homebrew system, and as of last year, 3e), and I find myself battling more and more each week to get the inspiration to get the session material ready.I've DM'ed my whole career, and feel pretty burned out, especially as one campaign (with the homebrew rules sytem) ran with 4 core players for 10 years.Now I'm left with 2 core players plus 2 maybes, none of whom know 3e very well, and so fail to see the benefits of this feat or that, or this class combination or that (the fact the group has 1 fighter, 1 cleric, 1 thief and 1 sorcerer illustrates the point!).Every time I get a new adventure (just got the new Ravenloft hardcover) my initial excitement soon seems to pale (hate the new encounter format, just seems so clinical and designed so that each adventure is one miniatures battle after another)... and the time from that initial 'rush' to that let-down feeling gets shorter and shorter with each purchase.So what to do....Well in my case I'm starting a campaign with my kids this year (ages 12 and 8), running the first adventure I ever played (B1 - thank goodness for the 'net and pdf downloads!), and I'm hoping that their enthusiasm will re-ignite my passion for the game.... ... if watching them fight the giant rats at the first crossroads battle (those who know B1 will be smiling right now)... doesn't excite me, then nothing ever will, and I'll be playing Texas Hold'em every Thursday night.... .But I'll tell you one thing..... even if that happens, I'll still smile every time I flick through my battered old Basic D&D rules and see the Haunted Keep map, or the pic of Emirikol in the cities section of the 1e DMG, or read the intro page from the Birthright boxed set... but as they say...Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be...</blockquote>

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