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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5991227" data-attributes="member: 996">No, I guess it doesn't.&nbsp; I find myself thing that it's a different world than when the hobby started.&nbsp; When I first played D&amp;D, the visions in my head that D&amp;D competed with were from reading Edgar Rice Buroughs and watching Ray Harryhausen movies.&nbsp; Today, ERB's John Carter of Mars, heavy with CGI, failed to wow anyone.&nbsp; Kids these days must laugh at Jason and the Argonauts.&nbsp; And then there all the on-line interactive imagery, not just MMOs, but everyday internet experience of clicking on something and it animating.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't know how plastic minis and dice are supposed to compete...&nbsp; but, apparently, in spite of my old-man-musing, they do.&nbsp; Every con I run a 'new players' game, I get some new players, and every season of Encounters I attend sees a few... and they're quite young and have their smartphones and on-line lives, and yet still find D&amp;D engrossing.&nbsp; I guess I'm just thinking the same things about 'kids these days' as older generations though about my generation because we grew up in front of the TV.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 5991227, member: 996"] No, I guess it doesn't. I find myself thing that it's a different world than when the hobby started. When I first played D&D, the visions in my head that D&D competed with were from reading Edgar Rice Buroughs and watching Ray Harryhausen movies. Today, ERB's John Carter of Mars, heavy with CGI, failed to wow anyone. Kids these days must laugh at Jason and the Argonauts. And then there all the on-line interactive imagery, not just MMOs, but everyday internet experience of clicking on something and it animating. I don't know how plastic minis and dice are supposed to compete... but, apparently, in spite of my old-man-musing, they do. Every con I run a 'new players' game, I get some new players, and every season of Encounters I attend sees a few... and they're quite young and have their smartphones and on-line lives, and yet still find D&D engrossing. I guess I'm just thinking the same things about 'kids these days' as older generations though about my generation because we grew up in front of the TV. ;) [/QUOTE]

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