I am Marc.
Started gaming with one other person in 1981 using AD&D rules and all of the modules I could steal as a 7th grader. Mainly used it as a way to work through fantastic stories and create epic battles. Still remember G1 through Q1 and all of the S series like it was yesterday. I was the DM (and the paladin) and he was all of the other characters and a lot of rolls were fudged but a lot of cool shit happened. I feel like running through an old Gygax module faking rolls and creating situations was more intense than most movies I watched. We didn't play so much as experience D&D.
Ended up moving on to the early TSR computer games after that and did some sporadic gaming after that.
Got back into gaming in 2011/12 and discovered all of the OSR stuff going on. Also started to understand how much I had missed out on. After seeing how much I had been missing out on I bought a copy of the LotFP deluxe box and thought it was awesome. Used a combination of that and some b/x rules and some new OSR modules to run a campaign for my old friend his wife and my girlfriend for a couple of years.
Some time goes by, 5e comes out and does some things well and I start playing that. I like it, I want to support it, but it isn't quite what I want....
Some more time goes by and I am getting ready to start up a new campaign with some new gamers and I find myself being drawn back to LotFP.
So all I can say is thank you to James. Your product helped guide me getting back into RPGs and it looks like it will do that again.
Marc