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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 1668366" data-attributes="member: 3608">Well, having less time to dedicate to gaming definately is a factor in how my gaming has changed. I have a feeling things will change again once my kids get old enough to join in.I suspect I don't keep up with cultural changes very well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Hmm. I think my basic understanding of the rules hasn't changed, but it has gotten deeper.Yeah. My play style has changed. Well, actually, I think maybe my desired play style has changed to more like my actual play style. Though the actual play style has shifted over the years as well.Hmm. My current group doesn't feel vastly different than my high school friends or my college group.Both.When I started c. 1981, I was just having fun.Sometime in the mid-1980s, I started wanting the game to be more like 3e. By the 1990s I was not playing (A)D&D anymore because I was searching for that game.Sometime in the mid-1990s, I started to get close to the game I wanted, and I started to discover that maybe I didn't like what I was wanting.When 3e came out in 2000, it seemed like exactly what I'd been wanting. I didn't like it as much as should have, though. I started searching again, but this time I didn't know what I was looking for.That search brought me back to the games I started with: classic Traveller, D&D Basic/Expert, and OAD&D. I saw those games in a new light now & found an renewed appreciation for them.At some point, my drive to create worlds different from the "standard" (A)D&D/Traveller world lessened. I expect that pendulum to eventually swing back the other way, and then I'll be revisiting Fudge, BESM, Risus...So, the D&D rules have changed from D&D B/X and OAD&D to d20 D&D. On the other hand, I've changed to find renewed appreciation for the classic rules that haven't changed.</blockquote>

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