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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 5415721" data-attributes="member: 11697">Question though: how is the newest generation any different than previous generations in terms of being a video gamer generation? Earlier generations just grew up playing different consoles. If you grew up playing Atari, or NES, or SNES, Playstation, Xbox360, etc the video game influence is there, yet D&amp;D has snagged people from each generation that grew up playing those different systems in their own time period of dominance. I don't really see anything different between then and now.I grew up on NES and would have played SNES like mad if only my parents had bought me one for Xmas like I begged every year. I never really read any of the fantasy books that influenced the earlier D&amp;D crowd, nor did I ever actually play 1e or 2e. Yet I'm a giant D&amp;D nerd nonetheless, albeit from a later generation (and one that thinks 2e had some amazing moments that need to be remembered in terms of world design).And given the video game influence that has been around a really, really long while now, I'm confused at the sudden desire (or even the need) to radically reinvent the game to cater to some putative video gamer generation that won't relate to D&amp;D like every other generation before it has, each in their own ways, each eventually putting their own evolutionary mark upon the game as new authors add to the corpus of D&amp;D material.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 5415721, member: 11697"] Question though: how is the newest generation any different than previous generations in terms of being a video gamer generation? Earlier generations just grew up playing different consoles. If you grew up playing Atari, or NES, or SNES, Playstation, Xbox360, etc the video game influence is there, yet D&D has snagged people from each generation that grew up playing those different systems in their own time period of dominance. I don't really see anything different between then and now. I grew up on NES and would have played SNES like mad if only my parents had bought me one for Xmas like I begged every year. I never really read any of the fantasy books that influenced the earlier D&D crowd, nor did I ever actually play 1e or 2e. Yet I'm a giant D&D nerd nonetheless, albeit from a later generation (and one that thinks 2e had some amazing moments that need to be remembered in terms of world design). And given the video game influence that has been around a really, really long while now, I'm confused at the sudden desire (or even the need) to radically reinvent the game to cater to some putative video gamer generation that won't relate to D&D like every other generation before it has, each in their own ways, each eventually putting their own evolutionary mark upon the game as new authors add to the corpus of D&D material. [/QUOTE]

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