- the game will replace the traditional poker night as a venue for American adults to socialise.
Probably! I've never played myself, but i see it being more and more common around me. Game nights in general too.
- Jane Douglas has called it “improv theatre for nerds”.
But is Improv not already considered nerdy?
I love seeing how subcultures intersect, sometimes in surprising ways :) Or maybe it's just that the people around me have their toes dipped in many subcultures at once - it's hard to tell.
A friend of my wife’s introduced us to her 20-something year old cousin as a potential babysitter. She’s since become a friend of ours. She and her (I’m assuming also 20-something yo) boyfriend come over on Sunday’s now for game night. It’s looking like it will mostly be Settlers of Catan. I was surprised that they’ve been playing for years.
I actually like them much more than the older cousin that introduced us. I’m convinced that age is largely irrelevant for friendships, at a certain point.
Anyways, it seems to me that gaming is alive and well with the millennials, which is a good thing.
It’s always been cool with me. I’ve only recently played with my eleven year old son (I bought him his first set last year), but I’m expecting that a RPG explosion is set to go off.
I’m a middle school math teacher in Michigan. We’ve been beat into the ground over standardized testing in the misguided rationale that standardized learning goals are predictive measures of student success. All while top businesses are searching far and wide for the [soft skills](https://fortune.com/2019/01/02/linkedin-2019-trends-skills-jobs/ ) that role playing games foster.
My son has just joined his 6th grade D&D club after school and is loving it. He’s learning and having more fun than he does playing Fortnite.