D&D slides farther into popular culture

[The Traveler]

Did anyone ever actually HAVE a D&D club in high school?

Mine didn't. Wondering if others did.

I did. Started it myself. Lasted about a year. Wait, that was middle school. Still, it was fun.

 

[LcKedovan]

We did. It's where I learned to play.

Me too... I remember the day I discovered it as clear as the day. I remember walking into the Library and seeing this group crowded around a corner table, the rattling of dice clear in the silence of the Library. I walked over in time to see some sucker fall for a reverse gravity trap. then checking out the maps and stuff... I was in love . Of course I actually had been in a much lower grade and had been running a Basic D&D/AD&D hybrid (Crazy kids) for my friends for a few years so seeing the older kids playing was a revelation... not many years later I was getting roasted by trolls in the Demon Web pits .

-Will

 

[Moe Ronalds]

My middle school has a games club, once known as the chess club. It's not for RPGs though. It's basically the same as chess club except you can play checkers or monopoly if you bring them. Still, maybe I could just make a few characters and a quick adventure and see if I can generate any interest.
Of course, two of my friends, upon hearing this went into evil-religious-midwestern-housewife-martha stuart-wannabe mode and started preaching how if I don't stop now I'll end up with my head impaled upon a flaming stick while my body is being devoured by evil rabbid chocolate bunnies.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Love the show and hope it sticks around.

 

[Tsyr]

We did. Even had a teacher (who was a DND player in college) play with us a few times. Ran us through the old drow modules. Was quite fun.

 

[DungeonKeeperUK]

Did anyone ever spot the Rust Monster in an episode of Futurama, along with Gygaxs Head in one of them thar Jars...

As for DnD in my school, I was playing DnD here in England about the time Punk was really popular... To be found playing a "geeky" game like D&D would surely have resulted in a pasteing.
So it was an underground operation, secret notes, special hand signals, hidden bunkers for gaming...

 

[Henry]

Did anyone ever spot the Rust Monster in an episode of Futurama, along with Gygaxs Head in one of them thar Jars...

Remember, there was more than just his head in one episode, if you recall - including Stephen Hawking, Al Gore, Nichelle Nichols, and Gary himself!

 

[DungeonKeeperUK]

There was also a British film last year, Saving Grace (About a woman trying to save her house by selling weed), a charcter in there played by Bill Bialy I think tried to avoid a "kidnap" by saying he had hi "D&D Tournament, it's the Grand final". Just a little bit there, and he had long hair, a goaty beard adn listened to Heavy Metal music, what a stereotype...... oh hang on that was me till a couple of years ago when I got my hair shaved..

 

[A2Z]

I'd never seen the show before tonight, thought it was pretty good.

Funniest scene had to be where he proclaimed "I had the greatest night last night" Then the girl fixes the other girls lipstick and he says "This is good too" I was cracking up.

I laughed so hard last night! I love the show. I really hope it sticks around. "This is good too." Comedy gold!

 

[Theron]

My high school had a wargaming club when I got there (fall of '77) which mutated into a RPG club by my senior year (80-81), although the name "Wargaming Club" stuck, since most of us were ROTC types and wargamers as well. I even ended up President, which I guess made me "King of the Geeks".