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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9620021" data-attributes="member: 85555">Yeah participation trophies aren't really what people think. First off, I don't think generations sniping at one another ever really solves anything. My view is generations need to learn how to reconcile their differences. But the participation trophy thing gets held up as the dividing line between generations and I think that is a vast oversimplification. I was born in the mid-70s so I am younger Gen X. But I have way more in common with Gen Xers born in the 60s than people born in the 80s. As early as 1983, I remember participation trophies. They actually made fun of these in Meet the Faulkers and Ben Stiller is obviously Gen X (his character had them in his house from when he was a kid). All they were were ribbons going up to like 13th place. I don't know whose bright idea these were, but they simply told you how badly you did lol. I think later they starting giving more diplomatic trophies. But the point is, I doubt these had much impact on anyone culturally. I was born in the mid-70s but my youngest sister was born in the mid-80s and the difference between how she and I were raised was night and day. There are just massive differences in how we were raised that go well beyond participation trophies (and it isn't like the differences produces all positive or all negative results, they are each balanced out by advantages and disadvantages). So there are definitely sharp generational differences if you were raised the way kids were in the 70s and 80s, versus the 90s. But that is pretty normal. Generational differences are a thing. It doesn't have to be a source of conflict though All that said, I don't think mearls was saying "these crazy kids and their aversion to risk!" I think he was just observing that risk has softened in D&D over the years and we might want to examine if the game loses any excitement as a result. I don't see the old man yelling at clouds angle here</blockquote>

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