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<blockquote data-quote="ParanoydStyle" data-source="post: 7565457" data-attributes="member: 6984451"><p>I find myself wondering kind of the same thing. I'm not sure I'm a grognard, but I do know I'm quite set in more than a few of my ways when it comes to tabletop gaming. </p><p></p><p>I'm almost a decade younger than you, so I find myself wondering WHY I'm not in touch with things like Critical Role, not on top of things like Reddit or Discord, not "streaming" (I'm still a little baffled by the idea that a lot of young people are watching <em>other</em> people play D&D for fun, D&D is not a spectator sport in my mind, it's fun to do, not to watch.) I still live in the fond hope of doing the Ds&Ds for a living, it's the only thing I know how to do professionally and my physical & mental health problems make it hard to hold down a real job, so it's quite a disadvantage that I'm such a late adopter of these crucial marketing channels.</p><p></p><p>I've never had an interest in using D&D Beyond or Virtual Tabletops. I'm pretty positive that doesn't make one a grognard. I'm entirely sure that using real physical dice has nothing to do with being a grognard. I hate pseudo-RNGs and dice rolling apps. </p><p></p><p>Using projection maps on the game table has nothing to do with being of the Old Guard or not, I think: personally, I just don't have the technology, or the motivation to seek it out and implement it, for that kind of production values.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I would only play 3.5 until last year, when I tried Pathfinder. I was going to be content with Pathfinder but lost the friends I was playing, so the only reason I finally came around to D&D 5E FIVE YEARS after it was released was that it's all anyone in my area was playing. I was pleasantly surprised that it was really good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ParanoydStyle, post: 7565457, member: 6984451"] I find myself wondering kind of the same thing. I'm not sure I'm a grognard, but I do know I'm quite set in more than a few of my ways when it comes to tabletop gaming. I'm almost a decade younger than you, so I find myself wondering WHY I'm not in touch with things like Critical Role, not on top of things like Reddit or Discord, not "streaming" (I'm still a little baffled by the idea that a lot of young people are watching [I]other[/I] people play D&D for fun, D&D is not a spectator sport in my mind, it's fun to do, not to watch.) I still live in the fond hope of doing the Ds&Ds for a living, it's the only thing I know how to do professionally and my physical & mental health problems make it hard to hold down a real job, so it's quite a disadvantage that I'm such a late adopter of these crucial marketing channels. I've never had an interest in using D&D Beyond or Virtual Tabletops. I'm pretty positive that doesn't make one a grognard. I'm entirely sure that using real physical dice has nothing to do with being a grognard. I hate pseudo-RNGs and dice rolling apps. Using projection maps on the game table has nothing to do with being of the Old Guard or not, I think: personally, I just don't have the technology, or the motivation to seek it out and implement it, for that kind of production values. Anyway, I would only play 3.5 until last year, when I tried Pathfinder. I was going to be content with Pathfinder but lost the friends I was playing, so the only reason I finally came around to D&D 5E FIVE YEARS after it was released was that it's all anyone in my area was playing. I was pleasantly surprised that it was really good. [/QUOTE]
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