D&D General Younger Players Telling Us how Old School Gamers Played

[Quickleaf]

Oh, yea, started watching that and haven’t gotten through it.

Frankly everyone should read “The Elusive Shift”

At least it’d let everyone know how fractured the play styles were even back then.

Lots of people thought TSR was a bit bonkers. And TSR thought lots of the players were too.

Reality was probably everyone was.

I would put that on a t-shirt and wear it to any meeting, any day of the week.

 

[Umbran]

How about just asking us?

Well, if they ask, then they have to contend with the fact that the truth isn't a simple and clean narrative in which everyone played the same way, and that way was goofy.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Don't blame the younger people; blame the old dudes screaming at the younger people about how they're not doing it right and then telling them how their table did things as if that was the One True Way.

Nah. If I'm doing a video on what it was like to be a Dead Head (Grateful Dead) based on something I read (and make incorrect assumptions) without actually talking to any of the Deadheads, that's on me. Even if some of them say the GD is the best music ever to come into existence.

The responsibility is on the one making the claims to be accurate.

 

[Sacrosanct]

so can you give an example? some idea of time passing. I started in 2e and found that OFTEN we had 6 month or less 0 to hero games and people were already jokeing about it at cons.

It wasn't based on real time. If we end a session with the party going back to keep to resupply (which happens outside of the session), you figure how much time that would take in game. 1 day to get to the keep, 1 day to resupply, and 1 day to get back. So when you start the next session, whether that happens 1 day or two weeks later, 3 days in the game passed, and creatures would react accordingly (doing their own potential reinforcements).

Never did I ever see us match in-game time with real life time between sessions. We knew the rule (contrary to the video's claim) but thought it was un-fun. So we ignored it.

 

[CleverNickName]

People should just not be blaming folks according to what group they happen to belong to in general.

First of all, how dare you.

The only fun part about not having something in common with someone else, is being able to blame them for something (or everything). Take that away from us and what do we have? NOTHING. The Greatest Generation blamed the Silent Generation blamed the Boomers blamed Gen-X blamed Milennials, who are now blaming Gen-Z and now you're suggesting that we just...stop?

 

[Umbran]

The responsibility is on the one making the claims to be accurate.

It is this thing, called "journalism".

But getting journalism separate from funding is a problem. When you need the clicks for revenue, being controversial, rather than factually correct, has significant draw.

Like, how many older gamers are now going to watch to see how wrong they got it? That's clicks, people! Paying him for being wrong about you is fun stuff.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

It wasn't based on real time. If we end a session with the party going back to keep to resupply (which happens outside of the session), you figure how much time that would take in game. 1 day to get to the keep, 1 day to resupply, and 1 day to get back. So when you start the next session, whether that happens 1 day or two weeks later, 3 days in the game passed, and creatures would react accordingly (doing their own potential reinforcements).

Never did I ever see us match in-game time with real life time between sessions. We knew the rule (contrary to the video's claim) but thought it was un-fun. So we ignored it.

thank you, I did see people do that in 2e, so I have some expense with it (but most I saw would say skip travel at table then start the next game playing the resupply at the house)

 

[Vaalingrade]

First of all, how dare you.

The only fun part about not having something in common with someone else, is being able to blame them for something (or everything). Take that away from us and what do we have? NOTHING. The Greatest Generation blamed the Silent Generation blamed the Boomers blamed Gen-X blamed Milennials, who are now blaming Gen-Z and now you're suggesting that we just...stop?

You know... Gen X actually seems to have gotten away scot-free in the Aging Wars. You don't see anyone hating on them or blaming them for anything.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Don't blame the younger people; blame the old dudes screaming at the younger people about how they're not doing it right and then telling them how their table did things as if that was the One True Way.

Such an angry young man!

 

[GMforPowergamers]

You know... Gen X actually seems to have gotten away scot-free in the Aging Wars. You don't see anyone hating on them or blaming them for anything.

shhhhh us Gen Xers like it that way