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<blockquote data-quote="enrious" data-source="post: 5726041" data-attributes="member: 2126">IMO, discussions about how players were &quot;in the old days&quot; vs. how they are now miss two important things.First, you can't pigeonhole the majority of players or even large segments based upon your own games nor even from letters written into popular publications - your experience (unless you are extremely extraordinary) is limited.As is mine.Secondly, the only thing that matters is the group you game with.&nbsp; My current group, for example, were given Ptolus as a sandbox and some evil, naughty memories of their character's past.&nbsp; So they turned it into GTA meets the Usual Suspects with some terror-bombing.That same group also played in a Silver Age supers game where I told them from the outset that there would be no xp/character advancement nor wealth, and they rocked it.I find it hard to believe that people were *all* that different 30 years ago.&nbsp; Inflexible.&nbsp; Unable to realize that basically you're sitting around with friends and people you want to be around rolling odd-shaped dice only because you don't want to sit around with friends and people you want to be around playing Poker.As it is, anyone hiding behind Rand's skirts to justify anything is just begging for an existential awakening.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="enrious, post: 5726041, member: 2126"] IMO, discussions about how players were "in the old days" vs. how they are now miss two important things. First, you can't pigeonhole the majority of players or even large segments based upon your own games nor even from letters written into popular publications - your experience (unless you are extremely extraordinary) is limited. As is mine. Secondly, the only thing that matters is the group you game with. My current group, for example, were given Ptolus as a sandbox and some evil, naughty memories of their character's past. So they turned it into GTA meets the Usual Suspects with some terror-bombing. That same group also played in a Silver Age supers game where I told them from the outset that there would be no xp/character advancement nor wealth, and they rocked it. I find it hard to believe that people were *all* that different 30 years ago. Inflexible. Unable to realize that basically you're sitting around with friends and people you want to be around rolling odd-shaped dice only because you don't want to sit around with friends and people you want to be around playing Poker. As it is, anyone hiding behind Rand's skirts to justify anything is just begging for an existential awakening. [/QUOTE]

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