[Rq-rules] Been gaming a while!

[Eric Leventhal Arthen]

I'm 46 and have been gaming since '79. Three of my regular players are a 
couple of years older than me, then one in her 30s and one who is 16.

<<Best hope is probably to raise your own kids and pass it along that 
way. >>

Yes that works. My son, a 'nephew' and two son's of one of my co-players 
are all into FRP's - including RQ. They play various systems. They also 
play LARPs and computer games. I don't think any of them are into 
on-line gaming. They are in the 16-23yr old range, and have brought some 
of their friends into it.

Also, I find that the world I've developed and run all these years is 
one of the places they like to run in, and to create some of their own 
games in.

And on a separate topic,  as per the calendar on Gwenthia, my worlds 
(Metloran & Bisloran) have an 8 day week for the Eight greater gods. One 
has a 384 day year (4season*12week*8day). The other is a larger world 
without a moon, but with a year that is 4 times as long. (Must be less 
dense since the gravity is not appreciably different - but the sea 
jouneys are much longer.) Over 400 days of pretty good, warmish weather 
and then a really nasty winter. They have 'front' doors on the second or 
even third floor for when the snow gets too deep. And I partly justify 
the civilizations being able to store enough food for long enough and 
warmth to survive those winters to the effects of Magic on society.

-Eric


On 3/3/2008 7:59 PM, Gary Sturgess wrote:
> I'd have to concur that the number of younger tabletop gamers doesn't
> seem to be growing. (Oh, I suppose: started in 1982 with Black Book
> Traveller, and have mostly played Champions and D&D since; I'm now
> 35). I've seen even us older types go through RPG withdrawal for Magic
> or WoW - granted, we did come back, but that's because we had the
> prior experience of RPGs to know what we were missing. I've no doubt
> that to someone who's never played anything but WoW they would have
> trouble understanding why RQ round a table with pens and paper is so
> much "better" (subjectively speaking).
>
> Best hope is probably to raise your own kids and pass it along that way.
>