D&D voted no.3 favourite toy/game!

[Jools]

Considering the media's usual relationship with rpgers the show gave a very positive portrayal of the hobby. Even interviewed Ian Livingstone (co founder of GW). Good stuff.

 

[vagabundo]

DNDers are like a simmering cauldron. One day we're going to boil over and TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!

 

[Morrus]

100 were polled. Way too small to be considered an accurate representation of the market, but I see WOTC jumped all over it on Facebook.

Are you sure? There were 100 toys in the top chart, but this page says that the result was a public Channel 4 online vote:

100 Greatest Toys with Jonathan Ross - 100 Greatest Toys with Jonathan Ross - Channel 4

Is there some contradictory information somewhere?

 

[Morrus]

The poll's criteria needs to be reviewed. I wonder if they included console video games as a specific item, broke it out by type (i.e. Xbox, Wii, PS3), or included it all?

The XBox itself and the Playstation both counted as entries; individual games did not.

I would have thought a Barbie Doll would be #1 or #2.

It was a UK poll; no Barbie. We had Cindie (similar toy), which features in the chart.

 

[delericho]

I play a lot of Monopoly with my kids (ages 5 and 7).
We play by-the-book, no house rules (like the free parking stuff).
Games last about 45 minutes up to an hour.

The real rules include auctioning property if it isn't purchased when landed on, selling houses and hotels back to the bank at 50% resale value, and paying an extra 10% to get property out of mortgage.

If you add free parking, expect games to go at least 2 hours to possibly never ending.

Yep. Monopoly is probably the classic example of a game being destroyed by bad house rules.

Even so, I'm not convinced Monopoly using the rules as written actually works terribly well - my Grandmother has a strategy of buying up "one of everything", and then steadfastly refusing to let go of anything, ever. This can very easily lead to the game getting 'locked', such that nobody can complete a set, nobody can ever build any houses, and so you can never move to the endgame.

 

[Treebore]

Are you sure? There were 100 toys in the top chart, but this page says that the result was a public Channel 4 online vote:

100 Greatest Toys with Jonathan Ross - 100 Greatest Toys with Jonathan Ross - Channel 4

Is there some contradictory information somewhere?

It does look like I read too fast, I don't see actual numbers given anywhere. So it was probably more than 100 respondents. I did find this, though:

100 Greatest Toys with Jonathan Ross
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How The Toys Were Ranked

In order to get a broad spectrum of opinion on what were the greatest toys ranked 1 - 100 we ran two polls; one was an online vote on the Channel 4 website and we also commissioned an opinion poll carried out by ICM. We added the results of these polls together and it is the results of this amalgamation that can be seen in the programme. The 6 tied placings were decided by a panel of judges.

The Final Results!

1 Lego
2 Monopoly
3 Dungeons and Dragons
4 Wii
5 Nintendo consoles
6 Playstation consoles
7 Scrabble
8 Scalextrix
9 Trivial pursuit
10 Gameboy and other
11 Star wars toys
12 Transformers
13 Microsoft X-Box
14 He-Man & Masters of the
15 Cluedo
16 Meccano
17 Hornby train set
18 Connect 4
19 Airfix
20 Action man
21 Matchbox cars
22 Etch a sketch
23 Teddy bear
24 Rubik cube
25 Atari consoles
26 Play-doh
27 Plasticene
28 Subbuteo
29 Spirograph
30 Risk
31 Roller skates
32 Top trumps
33 Yo-yo
34 Teenage mutant ninja
35 Chemistry Set
36 Twister
37 Pokemon
38 Battleship
39 Hot Wheels
40 Mousetrap game
41 Sylvanian families
42 Fuzzy Felt
43 Jenga
44 Frisbee
45 Pictionary
46 Chopper Bike
47 Barbie
48 Mastermind
49 Yahtzee
50 Playmobil Play people
51 Slinky
52 Operation
53 Super soaker water pistol
54 Tamagotchi
55 Game of life
56 Tonka toys
57 Space hopper
58 My little pony
59 Kerplunk
60 Care bears
61 007 Aston martin
62 Mr Potato head
63 Evel Knievel stunt set
64 Hungry hippos
65 Thunderbirds toys
66 Hula hoop
67 Sindy doll
68 Tiny tears
69 Buckaroo
70 Power Rangers
71 Buzz Lightyear Action
72 TY beanie babies
73 Six million dollar man
74 Furby
75 Escape From Colditz
76 Polly Pocket
77 Simon
78 Cabbage patch kids
79 Weebles
80 Trolls
81 Stylophone
82 Girls world
83 Crossfire
84 Tickle Me Elmo
85 Stretch Armstrong
86 Magna doodle
87 Dr Who Cyberman mask
88 Pop-O-matic Games
89 Clackers
90 Johnny 7 machine gun
91 Beyblades
92 Striker
93 Pippa Doll
94 Peter Powell kites
95 Bratz dolls
96 Major Matt Mason action
97 Ben 10 Action Figures
98 Holly hobbie
99 Teletubbies
100 Raving Bonkers

 

[nedjer]

You can house rule, homebrew, hack or patch Monopoly, but none of that easily gets round the underlying premise: win mentality heaven. The new version where you site sewage farms to ruin other players' properties is especially anti-social and entirely suitable for training kids to act in the manner of a North Korean dictator.

 

[Balesir]

You can house rule, homebrew, hack or patch Monopoly, but none of that easily gets round the underlying premise: win mentality heaven. The new version where you site sewage farms to ruin other players' properties is especially anti-social and entirely suitable for training kids to act in the manner of a North Korean dictator.

So, in the same way, roleplaying games would teach us to go out and kill anybody different from us, and take their stuff?

I hardly think that the premise of a boardgame is likely to "teach evil capitalism"...

 

[DragonLancer]

Could they not have found a more up to date vid of people playing D&D?

 

[TarionzCousin]

Incidentally, the programme's host, Jonathan Ross, is a gamer himself (or was).

You can have Jonathan Ross. I'll take Bob Ross and some Happy Trees instead.