[Rq-rules] Been gaming a while!

[Wayne Shaw]

>Not to sound totally superficial or anything (and I think my 
>generational distance can define that I'm not trying to flatter MY 
>generation), but from my elder perspective, the ones I see playing 
>wargames and RPGs are quite clearly the more intelligent of their 
>peers.  Maybe it's my sucky DM'ing, certainly, but I find a lot of 
>today's youth lack the attention span (or sadly, basic arithmatic 
>literacy) and want to go back to the very black & white, flashy, 
>no-imagination-required CRPGs.

There's always an argument that many of the players of prior years 
wouldn't have gotten into the hobby with some of the current options 
available to them, either.  I'm sure the really astoundingly 
well-packed schedules of people in their teens and twenties now 
doesn't help; after all, it generally _is_ easier to fit in a couple 
hours for a MMORPG here and there than it is to fit in six on a 
Saturday night for an RPG for many people.