Dungeons and Dragons Game Day Next Weekend 31
Thanks to Wizards.com for the information on next week's Worldwide D&D Game Day, celebrating the game's 30th Anniversary. "Saturday, October 16, 2004, participating game stores will present two adventures well stocked with hapless monsters to slay. Bring some friends to adventure with or meet some new gaming buddies at the event. The mini adventure, Lair or the Mad Alchemist, provides a great introduction to D&D, while The Forgotten Forge offers the thrill of a full-scale adventure set in the exciting new world of Eberron." If you're interested, here's a handy list of participating stores.
Re:grow up (Score:1)
How much do I need to grow up to be, like, say, you? What do you do for intellectual entertainment and exercise?
Re:D&D Obession is Fascinating (Score:5, Interesting)
Sounds like you never had a good GM or group to be in.
Re:D&D Obession is Fascinating (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:D&D Obession is Fascinating (Score:1)
It's much less than that. (Score:3, Insightful)
You're exercising your abilities in an artificial context, for the sheer joy of doing so. The rules are silly, and arbitrary, and not the real point. Neither one of them is "real", neither one has any significance outside the game, but they can be diverting pastimes.
And, most importantly: people who dress up in special clothes for either one are unforgivable dorks who must be severely ostr
Re:D&D Obession is Fascinating (Score:4, Interesting)
Not to be mean or abusive, but could it be that people with low self esteem or come from broken families play D&D
This is a particularly interesting notion to me, in light of the fact that I play D&D regularly with my wife and four children (well, three children play, the youngest just takes our dice and doodles on our character sheets).
I realize you said "MOST... never said ALL" (and MOST isn't true in my experience, either, far from it), but I still think it's funny that people might associate with broken homes that which I associate with nights of family fun!
Re:D&D Obession is Fascinating (Score:2, Insightful)
We could well be weirdly 'normal' for roleplaying geeks of course. That's the beauty of anecdote...
Regards
Luke
D&D (Score:5, Insightful)
I've played with punk rockers, fundamental Christians, hippies, bookworms, anarchists, stoners, jocks, Wiccans, conformists, non-conformists, assholes, Bhuddists, & Joe-Sixpack kinds of guys & girls.
At its best it can be like live improvisational theater, a source of plesant memories among friends for years to come, and a way to build social ties among groups of people who might normally hang out with each other.
Sure, you can make the stereotypical jokes about the insecure, pimply-faced nerds who kill thier parents in the night in order to gain some "magic treasure", but in my experience, a large majority of D&D players are down-to-earth "normal" folks, who enjoy engaging their imaginations with some creative fantasy from time to time. Kinda like reading a book, only more immersive.
Oh sweet irony (Score:4, Interesting)
Oh wait, i can't. The only local game store specialized in RPG stuff disapeared a little while after Wizards of the Coast opened up all their big stores in all the malls around here. Then after a couple years they decided they weren't making enough money (their first mistake was probably buying retail space in malls) and shut down all their stores and went back to wholesaling.
So now i have nowhere to buy the products they're trying to sell. I was hoping maybe the list of stores whould show some nearby place i just hadn't heard about till now, but no such luck.
And yes, i probably contributed to the problem some, but not as much as many other people. I continued to stop by the local store for as long as it remained open as well as going to Wizards of the Coast, but i wasn't buying much at either place since nobody i knew was interested in gaming at the time.
Re:Oh sweet irony (Score:5, Insightful)
Instead, they put all the RPGs in the back corner, which was sometimes out of view of the entrance. In the early days, computer games (and computers to play them on!) had more shelf space than WotC's own products. Pretty much everyone I knew said the stores were thought up by designers who "just didn't get it".
The closure of WotC's stores (combined with dropping all other games a couple years earlier) probably set gaming back 5-10 years. A lot of stores either closed or stopped carrying RPGs because of WotC.
Re:Oh sweet irony (Score:1)
I am sorry, but when I was in Dallas we had several great FLGS, but not in the area I am in now.
That is why I order from internet based stores because the FLGS do not want my money.
D&D isn't Just for outcasts (Score:4, Interesting)
I wish they'd do this for NWN (Score:2, Interesting)
Worldwide (Score:3, Insightful)
Hmm, I notice that "worldwide" means "North America, South America and Europe" ... :-/
Re:Worldwide (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, that is confusing. I thought sometime around the '30s/'40s we no longer counted South America as part of "The World". I guess my American Imperial Handbook must be out of date.
Re:Worldwide (Score:3, Funny)
I'm still trying to work out if this implies that Australia is now a state of America - or whether we are no longer 'part of the world.
Not sure which would be worse.
Re:Worldwide (Score:1, Funny)
You're like the flypaper of the South Pacific. You tend to catch all the assholes and troublemakers and prevent them from getting any further.
Your neighbours thank you for your sacrifice.
Re:Worldwide (Score:2)
Happy to be of service
Some advice (Score:4, Funny)
No Lake Geneva? (Score:3, Insightful)
Does anybody happen to know if that store is still around? I know they fell on some hard times, but it would be an absolute shame if the creators of D&D lost their local game store. Thanks a lot WoTC.
Better Link (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/2004
Re:There is another benefit. (Score:2)
Grew up playing D&D in the '70s. Dropped out of college in the 80's because of too much gaming. Eventually moved on. Haven't rolled a 20-sider in y ears. Don't remember how many HD a troll has, or what a hill giant needs to hit AC0.
Sigh.
D&D - ruin your chances of ever getting laid.. (Score:1)
Re:D&D - ruin your chances of ever getting lai (Score:1)