Lothar's Lair

I have found that since the conception of the game(Dungeons and Dragons ™) by the late great E.Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson we as gamers have stayed with the changing of technology a bit too much. We have automated dice rollers,automated dungeon creations,automated name creators…etc. We have seemingly lost the unique feel of gathering at a public or private place “In person” and socially interacting with other like minded individuals. I suppose we need to re-establish those days, however with the onset of high gas prices, odd, possibly deadly viruses, various allergies to peoples cats,dogs…etc, we as a gaming society tend to confine our gaming now with an online equivalent or play by e-mail…etc. I personally miss the days when we all gathered at the DMs house and gamed till the wee hours on Saturday’s. We all became friends and got to know each other’s likes and dislikes. We found new real friends and sometimes new not so good real friends. I’m in my 50′s now and still love the game and all it’s nuances. I personally do not care for the Dungeons and Dragons 4.0 set of rules but that’s just the fact that old habits die hard, I suppose. I have ran and played the following role playing games-Warhammer, Role Master, Talislanta, Gurps fantasy, Powers and Perils, Champions, Call of Cthuhlu, Dungeons and Dragons from the original box set to 3.5, Boot Hill…just to name a few. I have collected, as we all have no doubt, hundreds of dice for hundreds of different applications…I love the game genre, but would like to see social face to face interaction continued on even in this day of electronic information sharing. Just thoughts. Have some more? I’d love to hear them.