Old Lady Gamer

[gnarlygninja]

I haven't been inside a game store in five years and I feel I am missing nothing.

The best thing about game stores imo is not having to wait for shipping. I like being able to go look at a thing, pick it up, and leave with it. But the experience is really dependent on the store, if a woman walked into the store I went to in college people would act exactly like that scene in Dorkness Rising.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I was listening to The Eldritch Lore Cast and their young guest was surprised and taken aback that players used to have to assign a mapper to map out the dungeon environment as they explored. I get that this has faded, and no problems here. I hated mapping. But to not even know about the practice? I feel so old.

Consider that the last time that was common was probably, oh, I want to say 30-40 years ago now? So yeah, you've got to go two-three generations back before it was even something people were particularly likely to have heard of.

 

[wicked cool]

I was listening to The Eldritch Lore Cast and their young guest was surprised and taken aback that players used to have to assign a mapper to map out the dungeon environment as they explored. I get that this has faded, and no problems here. I hated mapping. But to not even know about the practice? I feel so old.

Graph paper !

 

[Arilyn]

Consider that the last time that was common was probably, oh, I want to say 30-40 years ago now? So yeah, you've got to go two-three generations back before it was even something people were particularly likely to have heard of.

That long ago? I guess I can feel smug about my insistence that the activity was boring and really not needed. Ah ha, see it has been totally wiped out!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I was listening to The Eldritch Lore Cast and their young guest was surprised and taken aback that players used to have to assign a mapper to map out the dungeon environment as they explored. I get that this has faded, and no problems here. I hated mapping. But to not even know about the practice? I feel so old.

I love Um, Actually on Dropout, but every time everyone on the panel and the host and the fact-checker are baffled by the Wizard of Earthsea, or the like, I can feel the icy touch of the grave.

 

[Arilyn]

I love Um, Actually on Dropout, but every time everyone on the panel and the host and the fact-checker are baffled by the Wizard of Earthsea, or the like, I can feel the icy touch of the grave.

I know. Often, I find myself thinking (or yelling) how do you not know about this?

Then I meet a young person who's in love with Earthsea or Lloyd Alexander and I feel better.

 

[Thomas Shey]

That long ago? I guess I can feel smug about my insistence that the activity was boring and really not needed. Ah ha, see it has been totally wiped out!

Not totally. I suspect its still common in parts of the OSR.

But the days when it was common are very long gone. I mean, after all, it really only existed when the focus on exploratory dungeon crawls was the order of the day, and that hasn't even been true in the D&D-sphere for a pretty long time now, let alone in the hobby as a whole.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I love Um, Actually on Dropout, but every time everyone on the panel and the host and the fact-checker are baffled by the Wizard of Earthsea, or the like, I can feel the icy touch of the grave.

Its like the way I feel when pretty dedicated lit science-fiction fans react to Clifford Simak's name with "Who?"

 

[John Dallman]

I used to tell people that I gamed with, "I have dice older than you..."

I've played a character who was rolled up before one of the players in that game was born. That was about 20 years ago...

 

[aramis erak]

RPGs will soon be listed as activities found at senior citizen rec centres and retirement villas.

probably.

Cause honestly, who plays whist anymore?

Me. Well, not whist itself, but several derivatives... Euchre, bridge, hearts, spades...