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<blockquote data-quote="danbala" data-source="post: 4754382" data-attributes="member: 8464"><p>Its very hard for me to gauge where “cult status” ends and where true popularity begins. But its clear to me that D&D has recently permutated the culture in a way that it never has before.</p><p></p><p>For some reason there has been a rash of comedians (Steven Colbert, Patten Oswalt, Mike Meyers) that have felt compelled to self-indentify as current D&D players – not just something they did as a kid and grew out of. </p><p></p><p>(My favorite was Patten Oswalt:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><em> <strong>Wired</strong>: You're nearly 40, and you've returned to playing Dungeons & Dragons. Please explain.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></p><p><strong>Oswalt</strong>: It's a benign way to have a midlife crisis that doesn't involve sports cars. My wife is probably hoping, "Maybe tonight he'll just go to a strip club..." Instead, I'm out rolling dice and saying things like, "I don't know if a Wall of Fog spell lasts that long!"</em> )</p><p></p><p>I don’t know why this is happening now by it seems to coincide with other Hollywood types coming out of the geek closet. Recently, for example, Jon Faverau (director of Iron Man and Swingers) credited D&D with helping to hone his writing/directing skills. Of course we are all aware of Vin Deisel being a gaming evangelist, but having famous sports figures – such as Tim Duncan and Curt Shilling – is a bit of shock to me.</p><p></p><p>I can’t remember <strong>ANY </strong>time in the past were RPGing seemed to have so many public spokespeople. Is it cool? Nope. But its clearly part of a counter-culture. There is no question that from a public acceptance standpoint RPGs are in some kind of golden era.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="danbala, post: 4754382, member: 8464"] Its very hard for me to gauge where “cult status” ends and where true popularity begins. But its clear to me that D&D has recently permutated the culture in a way that it never has before. For some reason there has been a rash of comedians (Steven Colbert, Patten Oswalt, Mike Meyers) that have felt compelled to self-indentify as current D&D players – not just something they did as a kid and grew out of. (My favorite was Patten Oswalt: [INDENT][/INDENT][I] [B]Wired[/B]: You're nearly 40, and you've returned to playing Dungeons & Dragons. Please explain. [INDENT][/INDENT][B]Oswalt[/B]: It's a benign way to have a midlife crisis that doesn't involve sports cars. My wife is probably hoping, "Maybe tonight he'll just go to a strip club..." Instead, I'm out rolling dice and saying things like, "I don't know if a Wall of Fog spell lasts that long!"[/I] ) I don’t know why this is happening now by it seems to coincide with other Hollywood types coming out of the geek closet. Recently, for example, Jon Faverau (director of Iron Man and Swingers) credited D&D with helping to hone his writing/directing skills. Of course we are all aware of Vin Deisel being a gaming evangelist, but having famous sports figures – such as Tim Duncan and Curt Shilling – is a bit of shock to me. I can’t remember [B]ANY [/B]time in the past were RPGing seemed to have so many public spokespeople. Is it cool? Nope. But its clearly part of a counter-culture. There is no question that from a public acceptance standpoint RPGs are in some kind of golden era. [/QUOTE]
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