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<blockquote data-quote="1StrangeFellow" data-source="post: 153364" data-attributes="member: 3954">Oh, I would certainly be curious and I have &quot;dabbled&quot; with MMPORGs in the past, but I would have serious misgivings.For one thing, 99% of the people who play MMPORGs do not understand what roleplaying really is.&nbsp; I would hate to have to walk through a D&amp;D world (even FR) and see/hear &quot;C U L8R&quot;; see someone use the emotes to similate modern rude gestures or poses; or have to suffer an encounter with someone who only wants to play a troll for the fart jokes - anything along those lines.&nbsp; Then you have the online cliques that form, entire games based around the concept of helping people in the hopes they will swear allegiance to you - a complete stranger who turns out to be an illiterate moron - so you can get more experience.&nbsp;&nbsp; MMPORGs feature players power leveling and power gaming so rampantly that tabletop gaming munchkins will weep and shiver in terror.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's not that I'm afraid that &quot;kewl dudes&quot; will overrun the hobby - just prying them away from the computer to read a book and retain anything for a length of time without feeling the impulse to blow something up or compare something to Quake would be a minor miracle.Call me a snob... I really don't want to be compared to that kind of person.&nbsp; I really want to like MMPORGs, unfortunately like this world (perhaps any world), online virtual worlds are full of stupid people.&nbsp; And anonymous stupid people are even more annoying.&nbsp; I really don't want the name Dungeons and Dragons associated with that.&nbsp; If it existed, I might check it out, but eventually stop playing because for a game that is supposed to allow you to interact with others, I'll be trying to go it alone rather than search for virtual miles for another decent roleplayer who really 'gets it'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="1StrangeFellow, post: 153364, member: 3954"] Oh, I would certainly be curious and I have "dabbled" with MMPORGs in the past, but I would have serious misgivings. For one thing, 99% of the people who play MMPORGs do not understand what roleplaying really is. I would hate to have to walk through a D&D world (even FR) and see/hear "C U L8R"; see someone use the emotes to similate modern rude gestures or poses; or have to suffer an encounter with someone who only wants to play a troll for the fart jokes - anything along those lines. Then you have the online cliques that form, entire games based around the concept of helping people in the hopes they will swear allegiance to you - a complete stranger who turns out to be an illiterate moron - so you can get more experience. MMPORGs feature players power leveling and power gaming so rampantly that tabletop gaming munchkins will weep and shiver in terror. It's not that I'm afraid that "kewl dudes" will overrun the hobby - just prying them away from the computer to read a book and retain anything for a length of time without feeling the impulse to blow something up or compare something to Quake would be a minor miracle. Call me a snob... I really don't want to be compared to that kind of person. I really want to like MMPORGs, unfortunately like this world (perhaps any world), online virtual worlds are full of stupid people. And anonymous stupid people are even more annoying. I really don't want the name Dungeons and Dragons associated with that. If it existed, I might check it out, but eventually stop playing because for a game that is supposed to allow you to interact with others, I'll be trying to go it alone rather than search for virtual miles for another decent roleplayer who really 'gets it'. [/QUOTE]

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