How Old Are We? II
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Has it been that long since I ran the Census?....
Yes. :squirrel:
I play Traveller with my 15-yo daughter. It stopped for a while, because the last boyfriend was only vested in video games, but he's gone now, and I'm still here. 
Warhammer 40K with my 18-yo son, although that's about to disappear as he flees the nest.
All three kids, including the 11-yo daughter, love Munchkins. Any version, any time. The littlest one will happily cut your throat, and cackle at the look on your face.
We have routine game nights for all five of us, including wife, for Cataan, Bananagrams, and old-school stuff like Monopoly.
And I should add that we own a couple of video game systems, gifted by a grandmother who thought that a child who grew up without one was deprived, but they have been boxed and in the attic for a couple of years. Kids' choice, not parents'.
Warhammer 40K with my 18-yo son, although that's about to disappear as he flees the nest.
All three kids, including the 11-yo daughter, love Munchkins. Any version, any time. The littlest one will happily cut your throat, and cackle at the look on your face.
We have routine game nights for all five of us, including wife, for Cataan, Bananagrams, and old-school stuff like Monopoly.
And I should add that we own a couple of video game systems, gifted by a grandmother who thought that a child who grew up without one was deprived, but they have been boxed and in the attic for a couple of years. Kids' choice, not parents'.
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CosmicGamer
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Whatever the perception now, I don't recall RPG's being the cool, in thing, supper popular back in the day either. Most people still didn't know what we were talking about. Most older people were too busy or thought it was for kids so didn't play it. Most younger people rather play sports, go to the local fishing or swimming hole or whatever.
Before the computer craze it was the TV. Don't blame it on the kids. Who wants the kids safe in the house instead of out roaming the streets. Who wants the kids entertained without having to participate. Who wants the kids quiet instead of rambunctious.
Lego's, dolls, and hot wheels cars may use imagination but plenty card and board games had little imagination.
Today, the grandkids often run around the yard pretending they are fighting pokemon or whatever the latest craze is - often an old one repeated like when the ninja turtles movie came out.
And everyone is different. Some people just naturally have more imagination than others.
I know one boy who only wants the best equipment in the combat game and is always annoyed with his sister because she is using too much time - in his opinion - shopping for gear that she thinks looks nice on her avatar or is wanting to change outfits just because - "I want to wear my red armor now with the helmet that lets my hair whip around when I fight"
Some are very into computer games - but minecraft is VERY popular and a game where one uses their imagination extensively. I've gotten some kids into Sims and Zoo Tycoon. I know back a few years when the cars movies were popular, there was a Cars computer game that had racing and a few other types/modes of play. There was one where you drove all over collecting something in town and around the countryside - a large setting. I often would notice the kids driving around just for the heck of it - let's see what the town looks like from up on that hill, let's run the car off the road on purpose just to watch it tumble down the mountain side, I'm going to find every barrel in town and push it into the street and then run into it.
Some are into playing barbies or play school or playing house or playing dress up changing outfits 1000 times until every item of clothing everyone in the whole house owns is thrown about the room. Some are into making up their own songs or creating dance routines for popular songs. Some like drawing and writing stories. Some are more into sports and physical activities.
The older kids are into texting and other things on the phone a lot but often using their imagination as they talk about things like what type of boyfriend they want, what they would like to do with their hair or makeup, that cloths thing again - talking about what they are going to wear or what cloths they would like to buy, what kind of job they want this summer or when they grow up, how many kids will they have in the future, what pets they want and what will they name them and what they will train them to do, what their future house and cars will be like, the best way to scare, tease, or prank their siblings, how to create a youtube video that will get a million hits... kind of make believe role playing via text - much more open ended and imaginative than those old time text based RPGs I bet some of you played - "Your in a room with a treasure chest, exits are north and south."
Personally I don't think a D&D dungeon crawl was all that imaginative.
Before the computer craze it was the TV. Don't blame it on the kids. Who wants the kids safe in the house instead of out roaming the streets. Who wants the kids entertained without having to participate. Who wants the kids quiet instead of rambunctious.
How much imagination is there in a game of shoots and ladders, go fish (using your memory, but not imagination), baseball or tag.
Lego's, dolls, and hot wheels cars may use imagination but plenty card and board games had little imagination.
Today, the grandkids often run around the yard pretending they are fighting pokemon or whatever the latest craze is - often an old one repeated like when the ninja turtles movie came out.
And everyone is different. Some people just naturally have more imagination than others.
I know one boy who only wants the best equipment in the combat game and is always annoyed with his sister because she is using too much time - in his opinion - shopping for gear that she thinks looks nice on her avatar or is wanting to change outfits just because - "I want to wear my red armor now with the helmet that lets my hair whip around when I fight"
Some are very into computer games - but minecraft is VERY popular and a game where one uses their imagination extensively. I've gotten some kids into Sims and Zoo Tycoon. I know back a few years when the cars movies were popular, there was a Cars computer game that had racing and a few other types/modes of play. There was one where you drove all over collecting something in town and around the countryside - a large setting. I often would notice the kids driving around just for the heck of it - let's see what the town looks like from up on that hill, let's run the car off the road on purpose just to watch it tumble down the mountain side, I'm going to find every barrel in town and push it into the street and then run into it.
Some are into playing barbies or play school or playing house or playing dress up changing outfits 1000 times until every item of clothing everyone in the whole house owns is thrown about the room. Some are into making up their own songs or creating dance routines for popular songs. Some like drawing and writing stories. Some are more into sports and physical activities.
The older kids are into texting and other things on the phone a lot but often using their imagination as they talk about things like what type of boyfriend they want, what they would like to do with their hair or makeup, that cloths thing again - talking about what they are going to wear or what cloths they would like to buy, what kind of job they want this summer or when they grow up, how many kids will they have in the future, what pets they want and what will they name them and what they will train them to do, what their future house and cars will be like, the best way to scare, tease, or prank their siblings, how to create a youtube video that will get a million hits... kind of make believe role playing via text - much more open ended and imaginative than those old time text based RPGs I bet some of you played - "Your in a room with a treasure chest, exits are north and south."
Personally I don't think a D&D dungeon crawl was all that imaginative.
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Kinda amusing that the center hasn't drifted too much.
CosmicGamer
SOC-14 1K
This poll may very well say more about this web site than Traveller and the younger people.
Just a suggestion, throw this poll up on Mongoose and compare results.
Just a suggestion, throw this poll up on Mongoose and compare results.
That would be interesting to see....
I'm certain the mode on Mongoose would be a decade younger, maybe two.
I've not seen Mongoose in any of the Anchorage high schools - its all been legacy editions. The kids who have discussed it have admitted it's their parents' books.
I play Everquest MMO. My sisters thought it was a kid's game. Then I showed them what it looked like with me logged in. And they realized it was what we had talked about in 1983, computerized d&d. Well, ostensibly d20.
I had talked, back in 1985, about computerinzing such games. With mutiple computers and monitors.
But I lacked money. So I never developed it.
I had talked, back in 1985, about computerinzing such games. With mutiple computers and monitors.
But I lacked money. So I never developed it.
FourthWarden
SOC-3
Yay, youngest person on the poll!
I can honestly say that most people that I have met in my generation have scarcely heard of rpgs like DnD, much less know anything about it. And a lot of the people my age in the tabletop gaming community around where I live have never heard of Traveller. For most people, Call of Duty on a console is probably the closest that they will ever get to playing an rpg.
I personally only started playing Traveller four years ago, and since then I've had a blast. I think that it is definitely funner than any DnD campaign I have ever played in, or DMed for that matter.
I can honestly say that most people that I have met in my generation have scarcely heard of rpgs like DnD, much less know anything about it. And a lot of the people my age in the tabletop gaming community around where I live have never heard of Traveller. For most people, Call of Duty on a console is probably the closest that they will ever get to playing an rpg.
I personally only started playing Traveller four years ago, and since then I've had a blast. I think that it is definitely funner than any DnD campaign I have ever played in, or DMed for that matter.
Welcome, Young Grognard-to-be...
MMORPGs
I play MMORPGs as well, particularly The Secret World, and find that many of the other players I encounter are also PnP gamers. In-game RP is limited by a particular game's setting, but there's a lot of impressive RP going on in related forums (such as TSW-RP for The Secret World).
I play MMORPGs as well, particularly The Secret World, and find that many of the other players I encounter are also PnP gamers. In-game RP is limited by a particular game's setting, but there's a lot of impressive RP going on in related forums (such as TSW-RP for The Secret World).
Here's a related question--and I'm not sure if it's already been asked: How many of us are new to Traveller?
I see that fewer than 8% (at this moment) of us are 40 years of age or under, and I wonder if Traveller is getting any new blood, particularly with both T5 and MgT in current production.
If we're mostly, as one might speculate, all old-time gamers who have been playing Traveller in one form or another for 20 years or more, is there concern that the game isn't growing? And if so, what could be done to increase the game's appeal for new players.
BTW, I don't consider either GT or HT to be Traveller as much as they're ports of the 3I setting to different games; I'm mostly talking about the Traveller game system in one of its forms (and I apologize in advance it this last statement causes any hard feelings).
EDIT: fixed a typo
I see that fewer than 8% (at this moment) of us are 40 years of age or under, and I wonder if Traveller is getting any new blood, particularly with both T5 and MgT in current production.
If we're mostly, as one might speculate, all old-time gamers who have been playing Traveller in one form or another for 20 years or more, is there concern that the game isn't growing? And if so, what could be done to increase the game's appeal for new players.
BTW, I don't consider either GT or HT to be Traveller as much as they're ports of the 3I setting to different games; I'm mostly talking about the Traveller game system in one of its forms (and I apologize in advance it this last statement causes any hard feelings).
EDIT: fixed a typo
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Lord Blaine
SOC-7
Turned 23 last week, and part of a group of other early-mid 20s types who play Traveller on and off.
You're all a bunch of old farts, by the way.
You're all a bunch of old farts, by the way.
Timerover51
SOC-14 5K
Feeling more like it every day....
Ah, you are but a youth still.
