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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 4794812" data-attributes="member: 1861">I feel the pain... but I don't think it is really so much an issue with rules in general... just a way that kids have begun acting.Yes, there are children who read... and they read well.  However, we have an enormous amount of anti-intellectualism going around in the country (and possibly the world) and it hurts those who enjoy reading.  Bill Hicks had a great bit about being stuck in a no-account town and having a waitress ask him what he was reading for. This was a humorous bit to me until about 5 years ago, when I started getting asked that question at work.  I've worked with kids for a good portion of my adult life (social work, secondary education, the wonders of tutoring) and see that there is a very interesting trend in information.  This trend has been brought about by our faster society, but really it's everyone's fault.Kids process an enormous amount of junk data.  I remember being a kid and baseball stats, car knowledge, and plenty of other things being the big data mine for guys of my age.  There was also a lot of general practical knowledge to be sorted through from hundreds of different conversations of various topics, schoolyard jargon, and plenty of more... interesting sources.Now, this information is available on the Net, and everything is seen as sooth.  Which is kind of sad... but it is our little bit of weight to carry.  The Internet and the generalities of this Information Age have done a lot of good and a lot of hurt for most facets of our lives and D&D is no different.  Character Optimization (which used to be the province of a guy with way too much time on his hands) is huge on various messageboards.  On the other hand... we get some excellent setting material from the likes of DannyAlcatraz, Jack, and others who produce some really top-notch stuff.---Okay, this became way longer than I wanted it to be because it's 3:15 and I have a substantial buzz going from late night activities.  My real point is that there are good and ill turns when it comes down to all of this... but there's just a new set of gripes to come up with.  I hated Tolkien and Salvatore inspired characters before... now I get to hate a bunch of manga inspired characters.Each generation has its fanboys, fatbeards, insufferable twits... and each also have their geniuses, scholars, and solid all-around mensches.  Find the ones which suit you <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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