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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrayIguana" data-source="post: 1570980" data-attributes="member: 7265">While I don't consider myself an old gamer yet (I'm 34), some of my friends have managed to re-establish our old group.  In fact it is a great excuse for old friends to get together.  Some of us have been playing together for 17 years.  My first comment is that we do have one player who is older than all of us.  He's 54 and he is my father.  While he enjoys the game, I think he is sometimes embarassed by some aspects of the game.  At the end of the last campaign he wanted to quit playing as he said it was silly to be playing games with people who were 20 years younger at his age.  To remedy this, I created a character and a plot line that I knew he wouldn't want to miss out on. Now my father never played until he came across some of my friends and myself playing.  Being well read in fantasy literature, he was a natural at playing.  I think he just feels that it is not something that he can share with many people other than my group.  I'm hoping it is a phase he will grow out of<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=":)" />I also feel for people who don't feel that they can be very open about their hobby.  Many people don't get it and are unwilling to be very open.  I work in the investment / insurance industry, and I am a bit guarded about sharing ut my personal interests beyond what is also related to my career.  I'm lucky to have a group of college/ high school friends who still get together every now and then.  Like many on this board, I hope to be in the same retirement community with these friends, and to pass some of my last days rolling a d20.</blockquote>

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