{"id":331,"date":"2006-09-05T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2006-09-05T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T12:36:07","slug":"the-aging-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/the-aging-gamer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aging Gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Story Games for Everybody - Designing for the 25-35 Demographic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.story-games.com\/forums\/comments.php?DiscussionID=1253&#038;page=1#Item_0\">Story Games for Everybody &#8211; Designing for the 25-35 Demographic<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n3) I have disposable income, better than I had at an earlier age, but I need to be more selective with it.<br \/>\nI can spend $50 on a game, or I can spend $50 on a movie or beer. I _know_ I&#8217;m going to drink the beer or see the movie. I&#8217;m not as surre about the game, no matter what I&#8217;d like to have happen.<br \/>\n4)If I can get 4 people together for 4 hours, 2 of them are going to be kibbitzing. It also might only happen once a month.<br \/>\nIf we end up playing a game, something had better happen. 4 hours of chargen? I think not. 4 hours of a single combat? It&#8217;d better be an epic battle, not two rooms and a couple weedy goblins.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good stuff, and more good stuff down thread, notably:<br \/>\n1. There&#8217;s no point in capping the age range at 35.<br \/>\n2. Related to number 3 above, TIME is just as much if not MORE of a resource allocation problem than money.<br \/>\n3. Chargen shouldn&#8217;t take a four hour session&#8230; but what if chargen itSELF is fun&#8230; what if it&#8217;s ALSO play?<br \/>\nGood thinking juice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story Games for Everybody &#8211; Designing for the 25-35 Demographic 3) I have disposable income, better than I had at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}