Today's word is 'Ancient' which is sometimes how I feel if I'm playing with a 20-something or younger. It's hard to believe that I've been playing RPGs in one way or another for over thirty years.
Back in my day we didn't have any of these Elec-Tronic dice rollers...we actually had to roll dice and sometimes you had to color in the numbers and you were lucky to have more than one set.
We didn't have any of the fancy virtual table tops and applications--if you didn't have friends to play with you had to come up with a way to run solo or else play the Fighting Fantasy, Choose Your Own Adventure or Wizards Warriors and You books.
And forget about video games, they were all text-based and you had to either play Adventure on the Atari 2600 or Gauntlet in the arcade.
Plus, if you did manage to find a group you'd all be pegged as Devil Worshippers anyhow and may make the news as a local coven.
And you wouldn't let any girls play with you and if they did show up, they were already attached to the one "cool guy" in your group, and you'd do your best to run them off and teach them a lesson.
That's the way it was and we liked it... We loved it!!
I was trying to channel Dana Carvey's old man character from Saturday Night Live but even the reference to that comedian and his skits dates me as being more ancient.
In gaming a lot have things have improved for the better since those "Ancient" times in the 1980's--maybe '70's for those more ancient than me--and I'm not a politically correct/SJW kind of guy, far from it, but wouldn't it be nice to go back to the time when kids playing Dungeons and Dragons--and other RPGs--was the biggest problem parents had to worry about.
Tomorrow's word is Familiar
Back in my day we didn't have any of these Elec-Tronic dice rollers...we actually had to roll dice and sometimes you had to color in the numbers and you were lucky to have more than one set.
We didn't have any of the fancy virtual table tops and applications--if you didn't have friends to play with you had to come up with a way to run solo or else play the Fighting Fantasy, Choose Your Own Adventure or Wizards Warriors and You books.
And forget about video games, they were all text-based and you had to either play Adventure on the Atari 2600 or Gauntlet in the arcade.
Plus, if you did manage to find a group you'd all be pegged as Devil Worshippers anyhow and may make the news as a local coven.
And you wouldn't let any girls play with you and if they did show up, they were already attached to the one "cool guy" in your group, and you'd do your best to run them off and teach them a lesson.
That's the way it was and we liked it... We loved it!!
I was trying to channel Dana Carvey's old man character from Saturday Night Live but even the reference to that comedian and his skits dates me as being more ancient.
In gaming a lot have things have improved for the better since those "Ancient" times in the 1980's--maybe '70's for those more ancient than me--and I'm not a politically correct/SJW kind of guy, far from it, but wouldn't it be nice to go back to the time when kids playing Dungeons and Dragons--and other RPGs--was the biggest problem parents had to worry about.
Tomorrow's word is Familiar
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