GrimCo
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On the individual level, Golden age is one where you have stable group and enough free time. My personal golden age was 2003-2011. HS and Uni years. 2 stable groups, regular weekly games (sometimes even 2x week), 6-8 hour long Saturday sessions.
Generally, i would say that last decade was probably Golden age in general. TTRPGs broke into mainstream, got positive portray in media, became part of pop culture. Yt channels with actual plays, BBT, Stranger Things, celebs "coming out" as gamers. With internet and modern communications software and VTT, ttrpg shifted from IRL only to online play, which made finding groups and games easier than ever before, even for some more niche games. Availability of gamin materials is also big thing. DriveTrough, free SRDs, direct downloads from publishers, DMs Guild, Amazon for physical books. It also made creating and publishing games and game supplements easier, cheaper and more available, with Kickstarter and Gofundme as legit forms of financing. Last but not least, information about games. It's much easier to find what is out there than ever before.
Generally, i would say that last decade was probably Golden age in general. TTRPGs broke into mainstream, got positive portray in media, became part of pop culture. Yt channels with actual plays, BBT, Stranger Things, celebs "coming out" as gamers. With internet and modern communications software and VTT, ttrpg shifted from IRL only to online play, which made finding groups and games easier than ever before, even for some more niche games. Availability of gamin materials is also big thing. DriveTrough, free SRDs, direct downloads from publishers, DMs Guild, Amazon for physical books. It also made creating and publishing games and game supplements easier, cheaper and more available, with Kickstarter and Gofundme as legit forms of financing. Last but not least, information about games. It's much easier to find what is out there than ever before.
