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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 5461392" data-attributes="member: 78752">I really enjoyed the episode as well.  I sat down with the wife to watch it expecting to have a good time despite suspicions that it was going to be another of Wizards' soulless marketing propaganda sessions, and I was surprised and pleased that all of the books and materials featuring in the episode were not even from D&D4!I thought it was great that the episode was decidedly about the people playing and not about the game, which is how all roleplaying should be.Also, I wish any of my sessions were ever half that engaging. :\Speaking of D&D on televison, something that may have escaped most readers' notice is that Leo, the personal assistant to the main character of USA's Fairly Legal, is characterized in the pilot as being a fantasy gamer.  At one point he finagles evidence from a police officer, a D&D buddy, by trading him Magic cards.Again, the important thing about the character is less that he is surrounded by accurate depictions of the hobby and more that he is shown to be a capable and productive member of society despite (or perhaps because of) his habits, and that his boss (who just happens to be a very attractive woman) obviously loves and respects him a great deal.  ...Although she does destroy his collector's Buffy the Vampire Slayer watch in the first episode.</blockquote>