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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4367324" data-attributes="member: 65637"><p>Now to sorta link my last post back to this.</p><p></p><p>I dunno if MMORPG fans will get into D&D. What I DO know is that most D&D fans start with something that isn't tabletop and get into tabletop because of it. I loved myself the vidya and my cartoons and movies as a kid, and they translated directly into me enjoying sitting with some friends around a table, pretending to be rangers named Link or thieves named Buttscratcher.</p><p></p><p>Did Zelda rot my brain and kill my memory? I don't think so. I'm sure that, were you to go back in time to me playing Zelda, you'd find ample number of people who would argue until blue in the face that I was rotting my brain and killing my memory and <em>I bet there's going to be science that proves this, you'll see!</em>. Science never did get around to proving that, last I checked, so that old Nintendo game, it seems, wasn't all that harmful. But it did get me into tabletop gaming, albeit indirectly. Granted, you could make the argument that this IS harmful, I suppose.</p><p></p><p>I think the only problem with WoW is that it's not single player, which is why vidya games got me into tabletop, as I couldn't be Link AND play with the kids down the street at the same time. Still, I think people who play MMORPGs can more easily make the transition to tabletop gaming then people who don't play video games, just as people who read a lot will sit at the table far more willingly then people who don't. You say it impairs their creativity. I say it helps them learn how to focus it. There's a huge number of Warcraft based fan art, some of it pretty damn good. I wonder, would those artists have made artwork without WoW, simply making it of some other topic? Or did their enjoyment of WoW cause them to get the tablet out (kids with their rich parents these days...) and start drawing?</p><p></p><p>At the very least, the widespread popularity of MMORPGs has made being a dork/nerd a little less horrific as far as social status goes for the leetle ones, just as, like them or hate them, the Harry Potter books got kids reading.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Man, and a certain arch chancellor decides to steal my thunder right before I can post! ;p</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProfessorCirno, post: 4367324, member: 65637"] Now to sorta link my last post back to this. I dunno if MMORPG fans will get into D&D. What I DO know is that most D&D fans start with something that isn't tabletop and get into tabletop because of it. I loved myself the vidya and my cartoons and movies as a kid, and they translated directly into me enjoying sitting with some friends around a table, pretending to be rangers named Link or thieves named Buttscratcher. Did Zelda rot my brain and kill my memory? I don't think so. I'm sure that, were you to go back in time to me playing Zelda, you'd find ample number of people who would argue until blue in the face that I was rotting my brain and killing my memory and [I]I bet there's going to be science that proves this, you'll see![/I]. Science never did get around to proving that, last I checked, so that old Nintendo game, it seems, wasn't all that harmful. But it did get me into tabletop gaming, albeit indirectly. Granted, you could make the argument that this IS harmful, I suppose. I think the only problem with WoW is that it's not single player, which is why vidya games got me into tabletop, as I couldn't be Link AND play with the kids down the street at the same time. Still, I think people who play MMORPGs can more easily make the transition to tabletop gaming then people who don't play video games, just as people who read a lot will sit at the table far more willingly then people who don't. You say it impairs their creativity. I say it helps them learn how to focus it. There's a huge number of Warcraft based fan art, some of it pretty damn good. I wonder, would those artists have made artwork without WoW, simply making it of some other topic? Or did their enjoyment of WoW cause them to get the tablet out (kids with their rich parents these days...) and start drawing? At the very least, the widespread popularity of MMORPGs has made being a dork/nerd a little less horrific as far as social status goes for the leetle ones, just as, like them or hate them, the Harry Potter books got kids reading. Edit: Man, and a certain arch chancellor decides to steal my thunder right before I can post! ;p [/QUOTE]
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