D&D 5E D&D on the cover of Sports Illustrated

[John R Davis]

It's compulsory in my gaming groups to have a charisma 15+.......although that's not great on a d100 scale

 

[Mannahnin]

My entire 6 year enlistment was overseas (Korea, Germany, Bosnia), and RPGs are HUGE in the military. AT least they were in the 90s when I was in. Towards the mid 90s, Magic really started to replace RPGs when deployed, simply because of the portability factor. In fact, that's the main inspiration I used when I created Compact Heroes about a decade ago, to create a portable RPG.

But yeah, out of the hundreds of gamers I've played with over the years (not counting one-offs like conventions or FLGS), most were when I was in the military. In Korea especially, where it's typically a 1 year tour, we'd have people rotating in and out of gaming groups all the time.

I think it's always been big in the military. Roger E Moore started in the Army while stationed abroad, IIRC. He used to write about it in his 80s Dragon Magazine editorials. And of course (later Maj.) David Wesely, whose Braunstein was one of the big inspirations for Dave Arneson's Blackmoor, was ROTC, right? I think he was away with the Army while Blackmoor became a thing, though.

I could swear I remember reading a comment by someone this year (might have even been on this forum) who first learned from the little brown books in the 70s, while serving on a Navy submarine.

 

[Blue]

D&D's not truly mainstream til it hits the cover of the Swimsuit edition.

 

[Blue]

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A comment where I stole liberated that image from was something along the lines of:

I may not have crits, but I have a bra that gives me dirty 20s.

 

[Blue Orange]

I think it's always been big in the military. Roger E Moore started in the Army while stationed abroad, IIRC. He used to write about it in his 80s Dragon Magazine editorials. And of course (later Maj.) David Wesely, whose Braunstein was one of the big inspirations for Dave Arneson's Blackmoor, was ROTC, right? I think he was away with the Army while Blackmoor became a thing, though.

I could swear I remember reading a comment by someone this year (might have even been on this forum) who first learned from the little brown books in the 70s, while serving on a Navy submarine.

A while ago a fellow in the military told me there is a lot of time to kill on-base when nothing is going on, so TTRPGs are a good way to fill it.