You know you're an old gamer when...

[Baron Opal]

...Your players start up a 401(k), in character.

So, I don't know if someone watched Rob Roy last week, but yesterday's session was one of those "inbetween" sessions where you count your loot and gear up for the next adventure. They've gotten tight with a local noble, and they help each other out from time to time. So, they have this pile of gold after selling the gems, armor and the rest. One of the players wants to take a chunk of change and give it to the Baron, to invest. The baron details three concerns, silver mines (safest), crystal mining (dangerous, but known hazards) and spice harvesting (jungle harvesting, unknown hazards, very risky).

So, what do they do? They deversify their investments. They split their investments between the spice harvesting and the crystal mining. They decide that if some monster jumps out of the jungle and eats the harvesters they can go down there and stomp it. Then, they can recover their spice shipment and get xp, too! Win-win!

Once we realized what we were doing, we had a good laugh and one of the players said "Never in D&D before have I made investments. We didn't even think of this when I was 18. *sigh* From beer and wenches to 401(k)s, we are now old gamers."

 

[elforcelf]

But I did Trader games even when I was a teen. There was rules for investing in D&D,too.

 

[Tsillanabor]

One of my all time favorite characters was a merchant-thief from Al'Qadim. Short, fat, greedy moneygrubber with a 17 Intelligence-ended up the richest guy in the party.

 

[Vrecknidj]

I have a player who has always had his characters trying to maximize their fortunes. He had a druid once who defied his normal ways and got involved with a rather amusing shop in the city. The "No-Bull Knight," jester and cavalier supply shoppe.



Dave

 

[Renshai]

Great story Baron!

 

[Mandeville]

You know you are an old gamer the first time you make a character that is younger than you.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

You know you are an old gamer the first time you make a character that is younger than you.

I remember when that happened. Vaguely.

 

[diaglo]

you know you are an old gamer when you have dice and a character sheet of a PC you are still using older than one of the players in your group.

 

[Vrecknidj]

you know you are an old gamer when you have dice and a character sheet of a PC you are still using older than one of the players in your group.

Crap, that means I'm old. Dang, I and I've always counted on not being old.

Dave

 

[jmucchiello]

You know you are an old gamer the first time you make a character that is younger than you.

I don't buy this one. I think I was 20 when I made my first 17 year old thief. If this makes you old I've been old for 18 years now.