Entry for 4th January, 2008

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Dungeons and Dragons fever has hit my friends, who have all now received their rulebooks from amazon.com.
This fills me with hope for my old age. I am hoping to establish a retirement home for Dungeons and Dragons players. That way, in our old age, instead of spending our dotage engaged in whist drives, we will be able to clear out the caverns beneath the castle of the Ceestial Order of Grey Monks. It seems to me to be a pleasant way to play out the endgame of my three score years and ten.
The more I think of it, the more I think this might be a moneyspinner. I mean, D&D was HUGE when I was in my late teens. That means that all the people that played it way back then will be getting old at the same time. And these people were nerds. Just the sort of people that become financial advisers and accountants and experts in activated carbon. The kind of people with money to spend on a retirement community.
In about 20 or 25 years time, they will begin to trickle into rest homes. Just imagine their eyes brighten through the cloudy cataracts, as they read the brochure for Castle Greyhead: "You're never too old for adventure..."