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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 6604656" data-attributes="member: 6777696">Wow, that's pretty bold-faced, especially coming from a colleague.About a year ago, I told a friend of mine, with whom I'd played AD&amp;D as a teenager, that I had taken it up again. His wife, whom I've also known for a decade, was learning that we had played D&amp;D for the first time. She was shocked, and expressed some degree of &quot;disgust,&quot; though she let it go very quickly, and we've talked about it together since. She plays Settlers of Catan frequently as well.I don't talk about D&amp;D at work at all. Co-workers with whom I am also friends outside of work know why I always hustle home on Thursday nights, but I've generally avoided bringing it up with anybody at the office.Totally baseless conjecture, but I think the stigma is less about the fantasy components like elves and dragons, and more about the imaginative component. Board games and comic books maintain a very detached involvement that can easily be played for irony (the safest way for non-nerds to interact with anything nerdy). Actually role-playing a character requires much more direct involvement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="redrick, post: 6604656, member: 6777696"] Wow, that's pretty bold-faced, especially coming from a colleague. About a year ago, I told a friend of mine, with whom I'd played AD&D as a teenager, that I had taken it up again. His wife, whom I've also known for a decade, was learning that we had played D&D for the first time. She was shocked, and expressed some degree of "disgust," though she let it go very quickly, and we've talked about it together since. She plays Settlers of Catan frequently as well. I don't talk about D&D at work at all. Co-workers with whom I am also friends outside of work know why I always hustle home on Thursday nights, but I've generally avoided bringing it up with anybody at the office. Totally baseless conjecture, but I think the stigma is less about the fantasy components like elves and dragons, and more about the imaginative component. Board games and comic books maintain a very detached involvement that can easily be played for irony (the safest way for non-nerds to interact with anything nerdy). Actually role-playing a character requires much more direct involvement. [/QUOTE]

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