Friday, September 23, 2011

Heartening News for Old-Schoolers

Just posted by a friend of mine... "6th grade daughter just told me she scored an invite to play AD&D with other girls after school. Heart is too big for chest."
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6 comments:

Xyanthon said...

That's awesome! When I was back in Missouri visiting my family, I sat in on a game of 3rd edition that one of my friends 17 year-old son was DMing. They had totally done away with feats, skills, etc and the style very much reminded me of 1e. He had a laptop so I asked to borrow it while at the table and downloaded a copy of OSRIC for him. I got a report back from my friend a couple of days ago and this group of 17 year old gamers has switched over to OSRIC. I'm rather pleased by that ;).

Sep 23, 2011, 8:29:00 AM
jgbrowning said...

That is also awesome. :)

Sep 23, 2011, 8:31:00 AM
Wymarc said...

I can only imagine what it would have been like to have it like kids do today. Gaming no longer bears the stigma it had way back when. The term role playing is no longer something that means you want to go live in a sewer and kill in the name of Satan. At least in this aspect maybe the Brave New World is not so bad after all.

Sep 23, 2011, 9:05:00 AM
William said...

My youngest daughter was in 7th grade last year and found out that the school had a D&D club so she went to check it out. The club consisted of like 6 boys playing 4th edition. She decided it was too lame for her because they were scandalized when she suggested that they might want to play 1st edition AD&D instead. My oldest daughter's friends are in their freshman year of college now and complain that 4th edition is all they can find to play there too, so the fight's not over yet.

Sep 23, 2011, 1:59:00 PM
Theodric the Obscure said...

Aw...tell him to enjoy.

It seems like only yesterday that my daughter, spending her last summer with me before she moved for high school, came up to me in a Borders in Queens with a purchase I had never seen before: a 3rd edition Monster Manual. The next week, we located a small comics and game store in Flushing's Chinatown near where I worked and we bought her first set of dice and I went to storage and hauled my old D&D books out.

Sep 23, 2011, 5:21:00 PM
jgbrowning said...

It's cool to hear all the stories. Makes you wonder how many little rivers of old-school gaming are flowing around unseen.

Sep 23, 2011, 5:35:00 PM

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