I've been concentrating on the job hunt and working on my website lately, which means not a lot is getting done on the #ttrpg designing side of things. But, oof, I feel the draw.
Had a couple conversations yesterday that touched upon that nostalgia many of us have for when you find a new-to-you game hidden on the shelf of a store that doesn't specifically do games. That wonder that accompanies the unearth of a strange new world. That's the stuff right there.
@epidiah I have deep nostalgia for Walden Books and for the collector doll and dollhouse store owner who had two bookshelves in the back of her store filled with role playing games that were curated by her college-aged grandson.
I was exposed to so much if my favorite memories from my childhood from the one-two punch of those two places.
@epidiah The great luxury of youth is a lack of context, so that everything has a wide-eyed wonder and novelty.
Perhaps there is a counterpart in age of having a wealth of context - we can't enjoy that shock and surprise in the same way, but we can see how things fit together, the ways that everything we do is part of an ongoing braid of life and creation.
@epidiah for me this invokes the store that introduced me to the hobby Le Valet de Coeur in Montréal. It was a small hobby store and I spent hours/days leafing through their games literally Unearthing Arcana. That feeling of discovering something outside