Did you know about D&D's reputation before buying?
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Lady Dragon
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Anything which is not totally "mainstream" (a niche consumer product) could and will be blamed when tragedy happens, It's an after effect of the "not my responsibility" attitude that is so prevelent in this world. My son committed suicide or committed a crime,well I was a perfect parent and somebody has to be a fault so lets blame that odd hobby of his.
Its easier that admitting any personal fault in either yourself or your loved one. All most everyday I turn on the news and listen to reporters interveiwing the relatives of murder suspects and they all say the same thing. "He's innocent, he could never do that. I know him too well so I know that he's being framed."
The when a good convenient excuse comes up like D&D,Teenage music(whatever the latest is),violent videogames etc. Various crusader groups believe it and latch on to a new cause.
Once something becomes "mainstream" however and enough people participate eventually the accusations disappear since an active participant knows better.A good example is rock music, you don't hear that its evil any more now that everyone under the age of 65 grew up listening to it.
I believe this is slow happening to D&D as well the longer it exist the more it will be accepted.I think the next generation will not have any problem with it,After all they play RPG videogames and Pokemon (Both the card game and the videogame) which are both primitive versions of D&D.They read Harry Potter and many of them spend their allowences on collectable cards and miniatures games.This is a generation that will except Pen and Paper RPG's as just another hobby like stamp collecting or fishing.
Its easier that admitting any personal fault in either yourself or your loved one. All most everyday I turn on the news and listen to reporters interveiwing the relatives of murder suspects and they all say the same thing. "He's innocent, he could never do that. I know him too well so I know that he's being framed."
The when a good convenient excuse comes up like D&D,Teenage music(whatever the latest is),violent videogames etc. Various crusader groups believe it and latch on to a new cause.
Once something becomes "mainstream" however and enough people participate eventually the accusations disappear since an active participant knows better.A good example is rock music, you don't hear that its evil any more now that everyone under the age of 65 grew up listening to it.
I believe this is slow happening to D&D as well the longer it exist the more it will be accepted.I think the next generation will not have any problem with it,After all they play RPG videogames and Pokemon (Both the card game and the videogame) which are both primitive versions of D&D.They read Harry Potter and many of them spend their allowences on collectable cards and miniatures games.This is a generation that will except Pen and Paper RPG's as just another hobby like stamp collecting or fishing.
Blacksad
Explorer
Darkness said:Oops!Yep, you're right: I meant not applicable.
So France is the only European country that got problem with RPG reputation?
It isn't big or important, but its present.
Perhaps Spain got a bad reputation too, they got a movie with RPG player as killer (we got something similar in France with grave robber in a TV serie).
On the other hand, there is something like two or three comics based on the RPG universe (with one being a top seller: Lanfeust).
LARP announcement in local news.
And on the TV channel on video games, it ircks the journalist to call a game like FF7 a RPG because you don't really play a role (yes a lot of them are RPG gamer).
So the thing is accepted, but sometimes you get curious reaction.
I got hooked because of a math class in the 6th grade. I wasn't exactly doing too well, and there was this extra credit project that we could do. Basically create a game that used math as a basis. So, I thought that making a Dungeons & Dragons-ish boardgame would be pretty cool. At this time all I knew about D&D was based purely off that wonderful Saturday morning cartoon. It wasn't until two other kids found out what I was doing and wanted to help with my project that I actually found out that D&D was an actual game and not just a cartoon. So we basically made our own version of the game while they helped me learn it and from then on I was hooked.
So no, I didn't know it's reputation, just the cartoon.
And I got the extra credit
So no, I didn't know it's reputation, just the cartoon.
And I got the extra credit
terrestrialboy
Explorer
The story of my downfall into D&D is an odd one.
I have been gaming for 10 years and I hadn't touched D&D at all in those years (except once, at a local convention).
My brother got me into gaming, and he only gave me one piece of advice: Don't play Rifts.
You see, the first games I got into was Marvel Super Heroes RPG. Played that for a year, then realized how gooberish it was and moved on to Champions. Played that until I found a gaming store and got into Paranoia and some others.
Years passes until I went to gaming conventions and the like. I looked at AD&D, in fact, and I played a game at a convention. It was okay, but nothing blew me away.
This was also the time TSR was a bunch of jerks and said things like "Anything associated with AD&D is owned by us, including characters, etc., etc., etc." Now, I don't know if this is true, but that is what I was told. So, being the impressionable 15-16 year old I was, I was like, "Well, to heck with TSR and to heck with D&D!"
My players could have cared less.
Then came a new era. Third Edition came along and there I was at Gen Con. My brother bought the game and I was flipping through it at the hotel. I liked what I saw.
That next day, I bought a copy of the Player's Handbook.
When I got back from Gen Con 2000, I showed it to my players and asked them if they would like to give it a try. They said, in a lackluster sort of way, "Sure."
Well, needless to say, two years later, we're finally finished with the campaign I started then, and it was some of the best gaming I've ever been a party to.
Since indulging in D&D3E, I have had the chance to play in a AD&D campaign for about six seven months, now, and I must say -- why didn't I get into this sooner!
Ah, fate, how you mock me.
Anyhow, that is my story.
Take Care, everyone.
Ethan Parker
I have been gaming for 10 years and I hadn't touched D&D at all in those years (except once, at a local convention).
My brother got me into gaming, and he only gave me one piece of advice: Don't play Rifts.
You see, the first games I got into was Marvel Super Heroes RPG. Played that for a year, then realized how gooberish it was and moved on to Champions. Played that until I found a gaming store and got into Paranoia and some others.
Years passes until I went to gaming conventions and the like. I looked at AD&D, in fact, and I played a game at a convention. It was okay, but nothing blew me away.
This was also the time TSR was a bunch of jerks and said things like "Anything associated with AD&D is owned by us, including characters, etc., etc., etc." Now, I don't know if this is true, but that is what I was told. So, being the impressionable 15-16 year old I was, I was like, "Well, to heck with TSR and to heck with D&D!"
My players could have cared less.
Then came a new era. Third Edition came along and there I was at Gen Con. My brother bought the game and I was flipping through it at the hotel. I liked what I saw.
That next day, I bought a copy of the Player's Handbook.
When I got back from Gen Con 2000, I showed it to my players and asked them if they would like to give it a try. They said, in a lackluster sort of way, "Sure."
Well, needless to say, two years later, we're finally finished with the campaign I started then, and it was some of the best gaming I've ever been a party to.
Since indulging in D&D3E, I have had the chance to play in a AD&D campaign for about six seven months, now, and I must say -- why didn't I get into this sooner!
Ah, fate, how you mock me.
Anyhow, that is my story.
Take Care, everyone.
Ethan Parker
Yeah I knew about it well before I started playing it.
My mum and dad used to play when I was really little with a group who came over Monday nights. I used to find the little minatures fascinating, although I didn't understand much of it until I got older. It just looked like loads of fun. I always loved bugbears
My mum and dad used to play when I was really little with a group who came over Monday nights. I used to find the little minatures fascinating, although I didn't understand much of it until I got older. It just looked like loads of fun. I always loved bugbears
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