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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5734786" data-attributes="member: 10479">It's a humorous take on the state of things to suggest that "were-grognards" might exist but I think the term is being misapplied here.  As one of the few (are there only a handful of us?) around here who wargamed before RPGs even existed, I've always thought of grognards in the original sense of the term (as applied to gamers) as a gamer whose roots in wargames caused them to approach RPGs as a wargamer or to look on roleplaying with a certain disdain.  As such, the existence of "neo-grogs" (if you will) seem to be players who even approach new renditions of modern RPGs as would a wargamer, eschewing the roleplaying aspects of the games in favor of the wargaming aspects those games, embracing the legacy and traditions of the wargaming design roots inherent in all roleplaying games.I've played dozens and dozens of wargames as well as dozens and dozens of RPGs, and when I play wargames I focus on the wargaming aspects and when I play roleplaying games I like to focus on the roleplaying aspects of those games.  I suppose from that perspective a "Were-grognard" would be one who joins a roleplaying game but, upon seeing the full d20 shining above undergoes a transformation, and something deep within their being gets them howling for wargaming goodness. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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