RPG for Pre-Schoolers

Re:RPG for Pre-Schoolers by hsmyers on Saturday March 26, 2011 @01:53PM (#2372686)

Showing my age I guess, but two things occur to me; 1. RPG stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade to my mind so it took a while to crack the context :), and 2. much more importantly don't we have a pretty good product description and field test going on here? Seems like desktop CNC and a load of maple could lead to initial sales at Society for Creative Anachronism fairs later this summer and more general toy fairs post success after...

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Re:RPG for Pre-Schoolers by michael_dorfman on Saturday March 26, 2011 @03:29PM (#2372944)

And I guess I'm showing my age: RPG for me means Report Program Generator, and was what we used to program in (alongside COBOL) back in the pre-PC days. (Cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG_II)

(It was a trip of a programming language-- OpCodes had different meanings, depending on which column they were placed in. Take a look at the sample code in the Wikipedia article.)

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Re:RPG for Pre-Schoolers by daeken on Saturday March 26, 2011 @02:20PM (#2372744)

Wow, I never thought about CNC/3d printing in the context of the SCA. Produce stuff at low cost using modern tech, sell it at Pennsic [1] for a massive, massive markup.

[1]: For those of you not in the know, Pennsic is a massive war in the SCA which lasts almost 3 weeks, outside of Pittsburgh. Over 10,000 participants and tons of merchants selling overpriced, awesome wares. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsic_War

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Re:RPG for Pre-Schoolers by wazoox on Saturday March 26, 2011 @02:10PM (#2372718)

I suppose AD&D for pre-schoolers would have made it clearer ?

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Re:RPG for Pre-Schoolers by bengarvey on Saturday March 26, 2011 @02:52PM (#2372838)

Geeze you are right. Any coincidence that I'm currently building a makerbot as well? hmm....

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