#RPGaDAY2023 Day 20: “Will still play in twenty years time…”
While I have suspected that #RPGaDAY was designed for people who are not really much like me for a while, the question of which game(s) I will still play in twenty years time seems both predictable and problematic to answer.
I’d like to believe I’ll still be playing GURPS in twenty years time. But I know this is unlikely.
Five decades of experience tell me that (assuming I am alive in 20 years, a statistical likelihood but only just) I’ve changed a lot in the last twenty years. For starters, I’ve changed career twice in twenty years.
In terms of RPGs, twenty years ago I was playing Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition religiously on Friday nights. In some circles, that game is a curse word now. As much as I still enjoy that version of D&D, I won’t find many players even if I wanted to keep playing it 20 years later.
I bought into GURPS in 2004. I has taken me twenty years to get around to playing it and even then, 19 years later, I prefer the edition that was published in 1989. My point? The hobby changes and we change with it. Who is to say what game(s) I will play in 2043?
My hope is far simpler: I hope to still be playing in twenty years. There are not many reasons (mortality aside) to think I would stop, given 40 years already served, but if I still have the faculty and will to game at 73, well, that would be cool.
Game on!
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This made me realize that GURPS has been my favorite game for close to 34 years. Either it has staying power, or I’m very set in my ways.
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Might be both. 😉 In seriousness, GURPS is robust and flexible. I hope to make it my standard and gain some mastery of it. 🎲🎲🎲
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It’s an interesting question, obviously as impossible to accurately predict as just about anything else but interesting none the less to contemplate
Twenty years ago I was fumbling around the RPG internet, tentatively exploring the forums, buying Dragon/Dungeon religiously…….all in the faintest of faint hopes that I would eventually find a gaming group to play with and break a decade+ long gaming drought
(spoiler alert – it took me until 2010 b
to do so but I haven’t stopped playing since 😊👍)
The hobby itself? Who knows
Most of the original creators are dead, most gamers i know are or are rapidly approaching middle age, TTRPG as we know has nearly gone under completely at least three times but somehow manages to miraculously survive while Hasbro has plans to turn their entire emence D&D IP into a subscription based lifestyle thinymajig….your guess of the future to unfold is as good as mine 🤷♂️
I’d love to say that I’ll still be gaming in my 70s but realistically I also have retirement plans that don’t include gaming at all and the idea of becoming a grandparent at some point in the future is increasingly something I look forward to as I get older.
It might just end up with me and a shelf full of dusty books I occasionally flip through inbetween road trips and family get-togethers as much as the blokes I play with still at it with hearing aids and hip replacements…. we’ll see 😆
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