So, are we still going to be doing this when we're 70?

[BlackMoria]

Originally posted by Tarrasque Wrangler...

I can imagine playing in 44 years when I'm 70. I'm sure I'll still be down at the FLGS every week, asking them when Iron Kingdoms is coming out.

Ouch.

Low blow!! Low blow!



Edit: spelling

 

[smetzger]

When I was playing in High School one of the guys I played with asked me: "What are you going to do with all this D&D stuff when you grow up?"

I said: I'll still be playing.

I am 34, married with 3 children, and still playing.

Oh yeah, my Dad recently found about 30 Grenadier and Ral Partha figs in the basement. Wahoo... some realy good knights and a hydra.

So, I expect I'll still be playing when I am 70. Just have to search around for a nursing home that has a good gaming group

 

[WayneLigon]

...the government spycams see you rolling a dice...

'And thus began the re-emergence of diceless systems, long scorned by gamers, now embraced by their grandchildren...'

---'I Came, I Saw, I Gamed', NetNode45 Press, 2056

I'll be 42 this June 26th; I suppose I'll still be gaming in my 70's. I'd like to think the form will change in some way - I'm past the idea we'll ever have any form of mental immersion interface, but I think that somehow very small computers may play a part in it. Who knows what will happen in 30 years, but almost nothing has really changed on the gaming front in the last 25, so... The system will be different, probably something like D&D 6th? d50?

But I think we might still be going over to each others houses (up on stilts because of rising water levels), toting Mountain Dew (after the Cola Wars of 2021, all drinks are now Mountain Dew...), carrying pens and pencils (that also serve as phones, pagers, mini-servers), and rolling dice (made from glass since we gave up oil and thus plastic long ago), using miniatures (And Bob has one of the cool new ones made from memory metals that make it a 3D duplicate of that cool elf picture he found on WorldNet last night) and fighting over who was where when that fireball went off.

 

[GrayIguana]

I have been questioning my involvement in RPG's since I turned 40 late last summer... Feelings of sheepish embarrassment, asking myself "when are you going to grow up?", and all that rot...

I think my dad feels the same way sometimes. He has gamed with my friends and I on and off since I was in high schoo. He is now 53. I'm 32 and most of my friends and players are around my age. But he still enjoys joining our game and joins us regularly.

We also intend on playing well into old age. Retirement should be interesting. I somehow doubt that we will run out of storylines or that we will become bored.

 

[Gnarlo]

I'll be gaming; hell, I'll be 40 in 2 years, so I'm nicely over half way now

Wonder what some of the adventures and supplements will be then? Such things as the Alchemy and Roughage Sourcebook, the evercontroversial Book of Continent Fantasy, and of course the latest remake of I've Returned to the Temple of Elemental Evil But I Can't Remember Why.

/em gnarlo!

 

[Nathal]

13th edition with that 9th edition feel...

Maybe by then Wizards will have weeded out the remainder of the errata. Naaaa...

 

[caudor]

I'll be playing for the rest of my life. If I can't find players or a game in the real world, then I'll play online.

Don't forget Buttercup, we have already tentively agreed to DM for each other in the old folks home. So, you'll have at least one player. I'll meet you at GenCon 2028 and we can work out the logistics

 

[Vaxalon]

I can't wait to retire! I'll be able to play 20 hours a week.

 

[Desdichado]

I'm only 31 now, but I'm playing more and better than I ever did when I was a teenager, or earlier.

I'm not drawing up dungeon maps anymore though; I didn't have to wait until I'm 70 to find that boring.

But I won't be 70 for almost another 40 years; I really don't try to think that far ahead (except for some vague ideas about retirement savings, of course.)

And BiggusGeekus -- what's up with the Greatest American Hero avatar? You're getting that song stuck in my head every time I surf the boards.

 

[DaveStebbins]

I was playing this game when I turned 20.
I was playing this game when I turned 30.
I was playing this game when I turned 40.
I don't see any reason why things would change.

They can make me grow older, but they can't make me grow up.

-Dave
"I don't think I've become 'old.' Not your actual 'old.' Just more aware of where the next lavatory is." --Boy Willie, member of Cohen the Barbarian's Silver Horde; The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby