Ultimately, I think you're right about the growing up and finding economic stability factor -- I remember looking around at my 10th college reunion, and saying, "whoa, the geeks won!". It wasn't at all clear while we were in college, but later... there it was.
I only played D&D sporadically, but retained a great fondness for the pencil-and-paper version, because computerized (console or PC, either way) RPGs always seemed to leave out the whole communal world-making, story-making aspect that completely made the whole thing. Stuff with chips in is just now catching up (and I'm years behind...)
We'd all be nothing without him, and without D&D. (Freak.)
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Date: 2008-03-06 03:15 am (UTC)I only played D&D sporadically, but retained a great fondness for the pencil-and-paper version, because computerized (console or PC, either way) RPGs always seemed to leave out the whole communal world-making, story-making aspect that completely made the whole thing. Stuff with chips in is just now catching up (and I'm years behind...)
We'd all be nothing without him, and without D&D. (Freak.)