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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 325240" data-attributes="member: 177">Re: Just Curious...*Umbran raises his hand*While I won't join in on bashing WW players, Old One has a point.Everyone here is a tabletop gamer.  If someone told you they'd gone to one D&D game, filled with sweaty, smelly, Cheetos-munching, Mountain Dew swilling, immature D&D munchkin geeks, and came away thinking that they therefore disliked all tabletop games, would you think they'd really given the genre a fair shake?Probably not.  One bad experience with one bad group does not a general classification make.  You'd probably suggest that the person try another group, possibly a different game, but not to give up so quickly.  Similarly with larps.  I'll have to disagree a bit with Andor, though.  Nero and D&D may be similar in fictional genre, and theme.  But the differences in execution of the game vastly overwhelm any such similarities.  To use a (perhaps weak) analogy - to me Andor is effectively saying you can't compare basketball players to football players, because they aren't playing similar games. Instead, you should compare football players to people who play in fantasy football leagues.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[edit: I fixed the link to <a href="http://www.larpa.org/" target="_blank">LARPA</a>.]</blockquote>

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