D&D article

[djwaters1]

The article I've written on D&D is now live.
It was tough to fit in everything I wanted to say in just 800 words!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/magazine/3655627.stm

Thanks to everyone on EN World for sending in their D&D experiences. I've not been able to use everyone's but there is a form at the bottom of the story which people can use to send in their memories if they haven't been quoted.

Pass the story on - it would be great to raise the profile of D&D once again.

Thanks again.

Darren.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Moved to General

-Hyp.
(Moderator)

 

[AGGEMAM]

Good work, Darren

 

[johnsemlak]

It's great that the article is linked to the front page of BBC's site.

Awesome coverage

 

[johnsemlak]

Just noticed that EN World is linked in the article. Awesome!!!

 

[diaglo]

cool. too bad it could only be 800 words or less.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

w00t

 

[Fester]

I was just going to start a new thread on this, but it's already done

It's a decent article, for 800 words, shows D&D in a psoitive light (for a change!) and some of the follow up comments are amusing.

My favorites:

I failed my A levels because of this game, but never regretted it. It seemed far more constructive slaying dragons and rescuing fair damsels than getting drunk and depressed about reality as it was in the 80s.

and

My best memories are the stupid moments like the time my wizard chained himself to the knee of a pit fiend and promptly died. He was trying to use an artefact that controlled devils.

and

We're still here, we're all among you, we might be your boss, your wife (ok, maybe not that one), your mechanic, your MP. And one of these days, when you least expect it, the roleplayers of the country will rise up, shout "roll for initiative" and we, the meek (/geek) will inherit the earth. Then you'll be sorry for taking the Michael, oh yes "...first up against the wall when the revolution came."

Excellent.

 

[Quasqueton]

"The game spread by word of mouth and became a cult in schools and in universities across the globe. It was even a cult at a Wisconsin naval base. 'At one time every nuclear submarine had a D&D group,' says Arneson."

Did you have to say "cult"?

Quasqueton

 

[Henry]

Great to see such a positive article. Also amusing to note the comments from some, e.g "If people want to know what living in a medieval world is like, I can point them to places where serfdom exists."

Duh! Why are we playing this in the first place?!? Because we don't want to be the serfs!

If I wanted to be a serf I'd get back to work.