Re: Gaming styles

> 	Alas, Metlay, the future is not ours. The wheel has turned
> and gaming isn't what it once was. I have seen the targeted
> audience of Role Playing Games move slowly downward, seen the
> cycle of a generation change. The clientel for the gaming industry
> is different now. Is it surprising that we no longer find it
> attractive?

I guess I'm one of the younger generation (I was four, five? when
Star Wars came out, so I first knew of it from tacky plastic lunchboxes),
so I'm not quite sure which aspect of role-playing you're lamenting, but
I'd like to point out that serious, intelligent gaming aids are not
entirely dead.  Steve Jackson Games still uses small print and
proofreaders for their GURPS supplements.

On the other hand (aside from the rudeness, but then gamers are and
have always been a universally well-adjusted lot, yes?) I sympathise
entirely with the "who needs dice?" point of view, and I thought AD&D2
was an improvement (aside from the type size), so maybe I really
don't have a clue what you're talking about.



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