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<blockquote data-quote="Wil" data-source="post: 2789132" data-attributes="member: 3502"><p>As a formalized "hobby", tabletop roleplaying is still fairly new. And it emerged just ahead of the information revolution - had it been kick started 10 years later, tabletop roleplaying may have never advanced beyond the little staple-bound booklet phase because computer games would have supplanted it completely.</p><p></p><p>So I'd say that it may not be so much a golden age, but a turning point. If you look at the migration of game designers into the video game development field, as well as video game developers that are tabletop gamers, and then these migrated video game developers put their attention back to tabletop games, you can see that a circular pattern is developing between video and tabletop games. The influences have always been there, but now they're getting stronger. </p><p></p><p>The real "golden age" has yet to come, as more youngsters who are born in an age where video games are all they've known discover tabletop rpgs. I don't think that video games will supplant tabletop games, but the integration and exchange of ideas between the two will continue to get stronger. This will guarantee that tabletop games never really go away completely, expecially as new technologies become available to make the tabletop gaming experience better and in some ways it will be difficult to distinguish between the electronic version of a game and the regular pen-and-paper variety. To me, that would be a "golden age".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wil, post: 2789132, member: 3502"] As a formalized "hobby", tabletop roleplaying is still fairly new. And it emerged just ahead of the information revolution - had it been kick started 10 years later, tabletop roleplaying may have never advanced beyond the little staple-bound booklet phase because computer games would have supplanted it completely. So I'd say that it may not be so much a golden age, but a turning point. If you look at the migration of game designers into the video game development field, as well as video game developers that are tabletop gamers, and then these migrated video game developers put their attention back to tabletop games, you can see that a circular pattern is developing between video and tabletop games. The influences have always been there, but now they're getting stronger. The real "golden age" has yet to come, as more youngsters who are born in an age where video games are all they've known discover tabletop rpgs. I don't think that video games will supplant tabletop games, but the integration and exchange of ideas between the two will continue to get stronger. This will guarantee that tabletop games never really go away completely, expecially as new technologies become available to make the tabletop gaming experience better and in some ways it will be difficult to distinguish between the electronic version of a game and the regular pen-and-paper variety. To me, that would be a "golden age". [/QUOTE]
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