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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 5257313" data-attributes="member: 19083">1) Games Workshop used to sell D&D stuff! before they became...well, sort of like drug dealers except wearing red jersies selling THE LATEST MUST HAVE OVER PRICED MINI LINE WITHOUT WHICH YOU CANNOT WIN (tm)!!!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />kind of like oh, evil security guys from Star Trek meets the Mob. Some kind of diabolic reincanration? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />They also had an asosrtment of good minis for RPG, old Citadel minis had some classics like this hydra<img src="http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/minis/beasts/hydra1a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />2) Here in UK, alas yes RPGs aren't "cool", but neither were they believed to make you worship Satan! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />UK has a very weird attitude to things that may be socially "Uncool" that is kind of opposite in ways to the USA's cultural outlooks. UK is supposedly a more liberal culture full of eccentrics...but especially in last few decades, such are seen more as "Uncool" and there's a very false/dumb "pretence of being cool", that has become de reigeur.I can't easily explain it. Kind of like there is MORE fear now of being socially different, even as there's less tolerance for racism, sexism etc. So no one bothered if you were a "RPG player/nerd" back in my  younger days, but now, they do.3) I only found out about RPGs because of "Dragon Warriros Land of Legend" a paper back in local library, assume someone there thought it was one of the adventure game books, or an actual fantasy novel by it's cover (which was a greta piece of art)You don't see D&D in stores except Waterstones (large book seller) and actual game stores.Exception: I was lucky, back in the 80s a HUGE toystore opened very close to my house, they had 1st ed AD&D and Grenadier minis otherwise I could never have got into the hobby (no FLGS, no EBay/Amazon back then)4) Glasgow has "The Dragon & George" and now "Static Games" on Parnie Street, behind the Tron. The Dragon & George is ye genuine olde FLGS  as a pal said, he really does expect there to be a Gate to some mystic world in the Dragon & George cellar, lol.Owner is very eccentric but great fun and genuine lover of games <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=":)" />5) Well I've rarely ever played anything but D&D, by far my fave.Personally while my games are often gritty and very damn gory (what do you expect swinging bloody great swords and throwing Fireballs?! Jeesh, lol!) I'm not much into killing PCs, except if they are stupid In which case I strongly believe in Darwinism, muhahaSo I think the low PC death rate is also my pals knowing this and not being dumbasses <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I like heroic fantasy, I know enough ugly stuff in RL and therefore, my games are more about fun and "Butt kicking for goodness!" as Minsc would say <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Gritty doesn't have to = "icky".Bad guys shouldn't be dumb without good reason (or they'd be dead!). Good folk have mortal weaknesses. etc etc.Edit to fix damn typos and put in pic I missed out, sorry! <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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