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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 6243322">I don't see a contradiciton. I am using nostalgia as people who invoke it to critique or explain the OSR mean it (as a way of revisiting their childhood, through the game they grew up playing), or romanticising the past. Your useage seems much more expansive than that and emphasis the romantic period useag of the word. By the definition pretty much every rpg is built on nostalgia, and OSR is built on it no more than pathfinder. So it becomes somewhat irrelevant to the discussion. However i am not going to engage you in semantic debate here.. We disagree of definitions and useages.What I am talking about is people claiming someone likes old school games because it reminds them what it was like to be a kid growing up in the late 70s to 80s playing D&D and/AD&D. That is hat nostalgia usually refers to in these discussions.</blockquote>