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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johnsemlak" data-source="post: 3851059" data-attributes="member: 7233">Is D&D any less of a social activity than going to a sports match and screaming obscenities at the ref for a couple of hours and then getting drunk (just to name one activity besides D&D)?  Is D&D any more counter-productive to bettering yourself?  Is it any more juvenile?I have a colleague at work who was telling me about how he saw some young men dressed up in armor and fighting with swords or whatever.  He found it an amusing way to spend free time--he said 'I think I did that when I was...four'.  I tried to say..'Haven't you ever been to a Renaissance fair or something?'  Later I thought--this guy spends a bit of his weekend time watching rugby on tv (i.e. grown men throwing a ball around and pushing each other around in huge packs) and he's making fun of other people for how they spend their free time.</blockquote>