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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seskis281" data-source="post: 2997866" data-attributes="member: 41593">I'd say that those who delve into RPGing as a table-top rather than online or computer form would be more likely to be readers as well - you sort of have to have that inclination to start with if you're going to read rule books, supplements etc.On the other hand I think the overall society is slipping away from reading - and I can offer anecdotes from my own 16 years of teaching at levels from middle school to university: just 15 years ago I could assign a play to read and students would do it, even if they grumbled about it - yes, there have always been those who tried to get by with minimal effort, but it wasn't the "norm". Now my students actively resist (as a norm) even assigned readings, and when I ask questions like "how many books have you read" more than 50% will say they've never read anything - even in high school (and they idea of assigned readings is dropping fast there as focus turns to testing and testing again).Remember summer reading lists? My wife teaches middle school and tried to assign one (1) over-the-summer read - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and was met by STRONG outrage from... the PARENTS, who demanded to know why their children should have to do something as silly as read a book when they had so many more important things to do - baseball, soccer, etc.I think there is a generational thing between those of us who can still remember when TV was 4-5 channels that went off at midnight, when "computers" meant my TRS-80 with tape cassette for storage, and those born in the multi-media age of instant access. When I was young Friday night was "book" night, and my father would read aloud Tolkein, sci-fi like Heinlein and Asimov, H. Beam Piper. I doubt that happens anywhere today.</blockquote>

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