Tallifer
Hero
There is yet hope for pen and paper roleplaying and the next generations.
Today I used some scrap paper to print out homework for my English class of nine year old Korean children, a generation and nation of children completely attached to consoles, computers and the internet... the scrap paper happened to be from a pile of print-outs of "Thunderspire Labyrinth" which I had discarded because the printer had made a mess of them... the children often check out the backs of their handouts to see what interesting scribbles there are... they were completely baffled by the grid maps and strange text... one girl started to read aloud, "A well in this room hides a phalagar, a squidlike creature that burrows through the earth and uses its tentacles to grab and rend its prey... Teacher, what is this??"
"It is a game about knights... like King Arthur. You pretend to be knights and meet dangerous witches like Morgan le Fay and fight dragons."
"We want to play that game!" the class cries in chorus.
"Perhaps we could some day... after all, it is not a computer game, so we could all play with just paper and pencils and some dice."
"Yes, let us play it!"
"Anyways... back to the boy who cried wolf..."
Today I used some scrap paper to print out homework for my English class of nine year old Korean children, a generation and nation of children completely attached to consoles, computers and the internet... the scrap paper happened to be from a pile of print-outs of "Thunderspire Labyrinth" which I had discarded because the printer had made a mess of them... the children often check out the backs of their handouts to see what interesting scribbles there are... they were completely baffled by the grid maps and strange text... one girl started to read aloud, "A well in this room hides a phalagar, a squidlike creature that burrows through the earth and uses its tentacles to grab and rend its prey... Teacher, what is this??"
"It is a game about knights... like King Arthur. You pretend to be knights and meet dangerous witches like Morgan le Fay and fight dragons."
"We want to play that game!" the class cries in chorus.
"Perhaps we could some day... after all, it is not a computer game, so we could all play with just paper and pencils and some dice."
"Yes, let us play it!"
"Anyways... back to the boy who cried wolf..."