D&D on CNN!

[Scribble]

I hope not.

Sorry to crush your hopes and aspirations!

 

[Scribble]

Its a nice little article and it should give a boost to attendance at D&D Encounters. I need to free up some time on a Wednesday so I can finally participate.

I wish it was on any other night then Wednesday nights... Wednesday just worked out to be a night I have to stay late at "the office" so I can never make it to a game.

 

[Herschel]

Yeah, Wednesday Night is my mid-week night at home because I game with my son and his friends Tuesdays and with other friends Thursdays.

 

[catsclaw227]

I wish it was on any other night then Wednesday nights... Wednesday just worked out to be a night I have to stay late at "the office" so I can never make it to a game.

Wednesday's are really tough for me too. I wanted to jump in on the Dark Sun D&D Encounters starting tomorrow night.

 

[_NewbieDM_]

I think the guy that made the boardgame comment was Auggie, from Auggies Games.

How many D&D guys named Auggie live in Lawrenceville, GA?

Plus, per the article the owner of the store where they are playing at is called Andrew... that's Auggie's real name as well....'

FWIW, he runs a great little website for buying and selling minis....

Auggies Games Home Page

 

[Mark]

[article]
"The new version (Fourth Edition Rules) is about teamwork," explained Augie, who said he has been playing D&D since 1979. "I can whip up an Encounter in no time and players can be playing in about five minutes. In some ways, it plays out like a board game." [end quote]

Spokesmen like this aren't helping.

Someone who has been playing since 1979 and hasn't known the game has always been about teamwork might have said anything. Shame this wasn't timed with the release of the actual D&D boardgame to further confuse things.

 

[The Little Raven]

Spokesmen like this aren't helping.

Good thing he's not an actual spokesman and is instead a volunteer DM, eh?

Look, boardgame-like and WoW-like are only considered derogatory by pen-and-paper gaming nerds, particularly ones who're trying to strike an elitist tone.

I was hoping we were passed this elitist nonsense here on ENWorld, but there appear to be those eager to keep it alive.

 

[Electryc]

Any news is good news period, unless your BP.

 

[nedjer]

I was hoping we were passed this elitist nonsense here on ENWorld, but there appear to be those eager to keep it alive.

It's easier to criticise tabletop RPG players than to simply accept that tabletop RPGs are a more sophisticated medium than boardgames or videogames.

 

[Dannager]

Boardgame familiarity is exactly the type of message you want to communicate to those without any idea what an rpg is. Since the article mentioned that the primary audience for the encounters program was former players the message was aimed at the wrong group.

Encounters might be aimed at lapsed players, but we're not talking about Encounters. We're talking about an article about D&D on CNN.com. Your average reader on CNN isn't necessarily a lapsed player; more likely, they're simply someone with little to no exposure to the game at all, and in that case this sort of description does the most good by far.