multigenerational gaming
Jun 12, 2022 21:54:56 GMT -5
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Post by hengest on Jun 12, 2022 21:54:56 GMT -5
Thanks to this post by mao, I thought it would be a good idea to have a multigenerational gaming thread.
I thought it might be interesting to hear stories about gaming knowledge being transferred in these ways:
My closest thing like this is that I was "taught" to play (in a strange way, but still) by a kid probably a year or two years older than me when we were both confined to the "bench" at recess. At the time a year or two sounded like a really big gap. A year was one thing, but the kids two years older were practically elderly.
The thing about this bench situation was that being "benched" was a punishment not only for breaking windows on purpose or something, but also for some really trivial offenses, like asking a question of the student in charge when the teacher was out of the room.
So the bench-residents were kids who had committed serious school-crimes and those who had done things that bordered on nothing, or were probably involuntary (dropped something during silent-time).
Also my first time playing AD&D was with people who were at least 15 years older than me. My folks knew them all, so it was not considered strange.
I thought it might be interesting to hear stories about gaming knowledge being transferred in these ways:
- within families (parents teaches child or older sibling teaches younger sibling, also grandparent refs for grandchildren or grandchildren's friends)
- older friend teaches younger friend or friend of younger sibling
- adult ref has young person at the game table with all adults, letting young person just be in the game like everyone else
- and so on.
My closest thing like this is that I was "taught" to play (in a strange way, but still) by a kid probably a year or two years older than me when we were both confined to the "bench" at recess. At the time a year or two sounded like a really big gap. A year was one thing, but the kids two years older were practically elderly.
The thing about this bench situation was that being "benched" was a punishment not only for breaking windows on purpose or something, but also for some really trivial offenses, like asking a question of the student in charge when the teacher was out of the room.
So the bench-residents were kids who had committed serious school-crimes and those who had done things that bordered on nothing, or were probably involuntary (dropped something during silent-time).
Also my first time playing AD&D was with people who were at least 15 years older than me. My folks knew them all, so it was not considered strange.
