Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9365153">I don;t know that broad generalizations like this about generations are all that useful. Lots of people, from all generations, do things in their youth and disapprove of their kids doing it (boomers also partied and did drugs and didn't encourage their kids to do so). Gen X also covers a pretty wide swath of age groups. One observation I do have is Gen X and Baby boomers share being raised in similar ways, whereas parenting changed radically sometime in the late 80s early 90s (even within the same household). In my case, my parents were boomers and my grandparents were all WWII generation. Those generations probably had more tension between them than Gen X, Boomers, Millennials, etc combined. When I think boomer what I think of is the 60s generation. Don't think anyone deserves to be disparaged or dismissed simply because of when they were born In terms of Gen X and D&D, it depends which part of Gen X you are. Most of us had exposure to earlier editions (I started on 1E and basic). A lot of 5E did a good job of appealing to people who liked those editions. I didn't personally make the switch but I knew a lot of Gen Xers who came back to D&D with 5E. Some of the recent changes have been a bridge too far for some of them, but many still play 5E</blockquote>