Same deal here.  51 years old w/full time teaching gig and an understanding and patient wife.  No kids, but it's still really hard to find the time with my friends -- one of whom was part of our very first gaming group back when we were HS juniors in 1979 -- and all of my friends have kids and less than understanding spouses.  I have played semi-regularly with a group of middle- and high-school students of mine, but I really crave playing with old codgers my own age (and therefore not have to pre-screen everything I might say), and have no immediate plans to play with students at all this school year. 

BoL has been perfect for my limited time, as has Savage Worlds.  This summer I played some heavily house-ruled ADnD (at my friends' insistence), but really wanted to get back to the rules lite jam I currently enjoy.  I've been spending a lot of time and effort working on my own version of Microlite20 -- which I've called D(M)20 -- that I'm always trying to get some play on for that Olde School DnD vibe but with a rules ultra-lite framework. 

I find anytime I play on older game, say ADnD, I end up house ruling it into a smooshed up version of DnD, BoL, and SW. 

 

Thanx, Simon.  BoL just hits all of the right spots for me -- the rules vanish into the background during play but still meaty enough for some awfully good play.   I can actually say I've read very few Conan stories, but have read most of the Thongor short stories.  Also really jazzed by Moorcock, so much so that one of the premade characters I've come up with for a demo is an albino, sword-wielding sorcerer from Zalut with an "addiction" to a drug to maintain his strength.   No moaning black sword, though.   

I'm hoping that I can get my FLGS to sponsor a BoL demo.  I've done All Flesh Must Be Eaten & Buffy RPG as well as Savage Worlds demos for them so it shouldn't be too much of an issue to get a time slot.  I'm a little gun-shy re: demos because I've got some purposefully disrupting folks showing up to them in the past.  I haven't figured out how to deal with players like that yet, and it's soured me on demos for a while.  In the event I am brave enough and able to con the management into hosting a demo, would you prefer it to be Mythic or Legendary?  I'm most comfortable with Legendary, although I do have the Mythic pdf you sent out a while back.  They've tried to get me to demo something on "Free RPG Day" in the past -- is this something you would be interested in?  

Pat