What says Christmas more than a model train.
The third issue of the excellent Wargames Journal, from January 2006, has been archived.
I suspect that many of my readers — like me — "wasted" their teenage years playing Dungeons and Dragons. But it turns out that it wasn’t a waste. The D&Ders of the late 1970s and 1980s now are driving much of mainstream culture. In the Boston Globe, Peter Berbegal has written an op-ed about this. A sample:
Dungeons and Dragons was a not a way out of the mainstream, as some parents feared and other kids suspected, but a way back into the realm of story-telling. This was what my friends and I were doing: creating narratives to make sense of feeling socially marginal. We were writing stories, grand in scope, with heroes, villains, and the entire zoology of mythical creatures.
The BBC has a great article on the continuing fascination with model trains.
I don’t often post a link to a complete site, preferring to point to specific posts I find interesting. In this case, however, I think it is worth a full site mention. Playing At The World is a blog about the early days of RPGs. For those of us of a certain age, I think you’ll find that this blog is worth an hour’s worth of reading.