I feel personally attacked. I occasionally dip back into 2.5E because Pools of Radiance, and Dragons of Winter Night are fun games, I managed to memorize the 2.5E rules by the time I was 13, and I’m currently 45…
Fair enough. My first attempt at a sci-fi RPG was the rather ill fated Babylon 5 TTRPG. I was exposed to Shadowrun, and Cyberpunk, but being 13-15 years old, an old Whovian, a Trekkie, and a Babylon 5 fan at the time, I couldn’t see a future that was that bleak and dystopian.
It’s only been recently, as in the last decade or so, that I have realized that Babylon 5 was a playbook, and a dream, for an anti fascist overthrow of a fascist government. Unfortunately we don’t have a space station that can just barely support itself, with a portion of the military loyal to the constitution of earth, without the government, and can stand up to the government militarily.
Edit: nah, I’m not older than my real age. I’m 45 and can feel it. Every few months one of my joints introduces me to a whole new place that pain can come from. I may need to get some osteobiflex.
My first was RIFTS, which i did not have the stomach for at all. By comparison cyberpunk and cybergen ran like a dream, just as my friends and I were getting into Akira.
I never tried the Bab5 rpg, but i stayed up late with my mother to watch it. I was shocked when rewatching a few years back to see lucille blooth playing a regime loyalist captain.
Dear Lord, I forgot about RIFTS. I saw the descriptions of the sourcebooks in my TTRPG catalog that I no longer remember the name of, and thought that they were trying too hard.
The only way your spouse could be correct is if you’re still playing 2e and you’re under 50.
I feel personally attacked. I occasionally dip back into 2.5E because Pools of Radiance, and Dragons of Winter Night are fun games, I managed to memorize the 2.5E rules by the time I was 13, and I’m currently 45…
Yeah i’m 43 but i got really frustrated with 2e era rules and moved on to cyberpunk, white wolf and gurps within a year or two of starting the hobby.
By the time 3e came out i was just not interested in fantasy rpgs anymore.
Since you seem to’ve been exposed to rpgs from birth, basically, you might count as slightly older in RPG-years than your real age? 😅
Fair enough. My first attempt at a sci-fi RPG was the rather ill fated Babylon 5 TTRPG. I was exposed to Shadowrun, and Cyberpunk, but being 13-15 years old, an old Whovian, a Trekkie, and a Babylon 5 fan at the time, I couldn’t see a future that was that bleak and dystopian.
It’s only been recently, as in the last decade or so, that I have realized that Babylon 5 was a playbook, and a dream, for an anti fascist overthrow of a fascist government. Unfortunately we don’t have a space station that can just barely support itself, with a portion of the military loyal to the constitution of earth, without the government, and can stand up to the government militarily.
Edit: nah, I’m not older than my real age. I’m 45 and can feel it. Every few months one of my joints introduces me to a whole new place that pain can come from. I may need to get some osteobiflex.
My first was RIFTS, which i did not have the stomach for at all. By comparison cyberpunk and cybergen ran like a dream, just as my friends and I were getting into Akira.
I never tried the Bab5 rpg, but i stayed up late with my mother to watch it. I was shocked when rewatching a few years back to see lucille blooth playing a regime loyalist captain.
Dear Lord, I forgot about RIFTS. I saw the descriptions of the sourcebooks in my TTRPG catalog that I no longer remember the name of, and thought that they were trying too hard.