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<blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 858960" data-attributes="member: 1331">You must be hanging out with the wrong crowd. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Of all the people I've gamed with in my adult life, only about two-thirds played RPGs when they were kids. Some of the newbies are geek friends, others are the SOs of other gamers, and a couple were found via the bulletin board in a comic book store. I'd also take issue with the idea that young people aren't exposed to gaming. At any game convention I've seen, at least half the attendees are teenagers or pre-teens. Sure, the younger ones are more likely to spend their time with HeroClix or Magic or (heavens forfend) Pokemon, but a really significant number do migrate to playing RPGs. Maybe the little kids don't have a D&amp;D cartoon like we did, but then we never had a really kickass LOTR movie. Hell, they've got Harry Potter too, which when you get right down to it, is an equally valid example of fantasy literature.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AuraSeer, post: 858960, member: 1331"] You must be hanging out with the wrong crowd. ;) Of all the people I've gamed with in my adult life, only about two-thirds played RPGs when they were kids. Some of the newbies are geek friends, others are the SOs of other gamers, and a couple were found via the bulletin board in a comic book store. I'd also take issue with the idea that young people aren't exposed to gaming. At any game convention I've seen, at least half the attendees are teenagers or pre-teens. Sure, the younger ones are more likely to spend their time with HeroClix or Magic or (heavens forfend) Pokemon, but a really significant number do migrate to playing RPGs. Maybe the little kids don't have a D&D cartoon like we did, but then we never had a really kickass LOTR movie. Hell, they've got Harry Potter too, which when you get right down to it, is an equally valid example of fantasy literature. [/QUOTE]

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