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<blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 7924170" data-attributes="member: 4601"><p>Platinum age? Diamond age?</p><p></p><p>Having played since 1991... I'd say it's the best age. Web communities and crowdfunding have created a new boom in creativity, with many different voices and perspectives coming into the hobby we haven't seen much of before. The hobby has become much, much more diverse, and I'm no longer terribly embarrassed to say that it's my favorite hobby, at least among people under 40 (I'm still not sure what my bosses would think, as they're from an older generation). The tools we have are ones I only dreamed about when I was in high school - I can run the games I would have liked to then, in the late 90s. We can rapidly build groups through social networking apps, bringing together people of many different backgrounds - my own group, now approaching eight players, is made up of people ranging over 25 years in age, all different careers, lifestyles, genders, sexualities, perspectives... I love it, because everyone brings something different to the table but everyone loves the game.</p><p></p><p>I'm so happy I got back into it. It's been getting me through a depressing time in my life, closing on middle age, dealing with career stagnation and a feeling of dread about the future.</p><p></p><p>"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which “Escape” is now so often used: a tone for which the uses of the word outside literary criticism give no warrant at all... <strong>Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?" - J.R.R. Tolkien</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tyler Do'Urden, post: 7924170, member: 4601"] Platinum age? Diamond age? Having played since 1991... I'd say it's the best age. Web communities and crowdfunding have created a new boom in creativity, with many different voices and perspectives coming into the hobby we haven't seen much of before. The hobby has become much, much more diverse, and I'm no longer terribly embarrassed to say that it's my favorite hobby, at least among people under 40 (I'm still not sure what my bosses would think, as they're from an older generation). The tools we have are ones I only dreamed about when I was in high school - I can run the games I would have liked to then, in the late 90s. We can rapidly build groups through social networking apps, bringing together people of many different backgrounds - my own group, now approaching eight players, is made up of people ranging over 25 years in age, all different careers, lifestyles, genders, sexualities, perspectives... I love it, because everyone brings something different to the table but everyone loves the game. I'm so happy I got back into it. It's been getting me through a depressing time in my life, closing on middle age, dealing with career stagnation and a feeling of dread about the future. "I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which “Escape” is now so often used: a tone for which the uses of the word outside literary criticism give no warrant at all... [B]Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?" - J.R.R. Tolkien[/B] [/QUOTE]
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