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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4413423" data-attributes="member: 65637">As others have said, it was pretty much the best thing financially that can and has ever happened to D&amp;D - or to go beyond that, tabletop gaming itself.&nbsp; It hilariously catapulted D&amp;D from being a fun game to being the headliner in table top and making pen and paper gaming a household name.Which has, in some ways, backfired.&nbsp; That kind of freak show of &quot;professionals&quot; can't really happen again; D&amp;D is too mainstream now.&nbsp; It's already been accepted as a part of standard culture, and while it is marginalized into the whole &quot;nerd&quot; thing, the fact is that whole &quot;nerd&quot; thing isn't the horrifying stigma it used to be.&nbsp; Hell, I was talking to one of my old professors at the 2 year I used to go to and we had a good laugh over finding that some of the members of the football team had blamed WoW for their slipping grades.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ProfessorCirno, post: 4413423, member: 65637"] As others have said, it was pretty much the best thing financially that can and has ever happened to D&D - or to go beyond that, tabletop gaming itself. It hilariously catapulted D&D from being a fun game to being the headliner in table top and making pen and paper gaming a household name. Which has, in some ways, backfired. That kind of freak show of "professionals" can't really happen again; D&D is too mainstream now. It's already been accepted as a part of standard culture, and while it is marginalized into the whole "nerd" thing, the fact is that whole "nerd" thing isn't the horrifying stigma it used to be. Hell, I was talking to one of my old professors at the 2 year I used to go to and we had a good laugh over finding that some of the members of the football team had blamed WoW for their slipping grades. [/QUOTE]

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