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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4786491" data-attributes="member: 80487">In the decades of my involvement, in the circles in which I have played, D&amp;D has not been &quot;all about&quot; ANY tiny subset of a ghettoized media fandom. I think the nature of that experience has partly but significantly to do with the limited overlap of its extent with the history of the World Wide Web.In the 1980s, there was annually in the little city I called home a &quot;science fiction convention&quot; that pretty much took over a &quot;resort hotel&quot; that no longer stands. It was an extremely eclectic convocation, bringing together people whose spectrum of vocations and avocations had in common the one characteristic of engaging the imagination.Role-play gamers were well represented -- but not as an isolated clique; not even as a monolithic one, much less as devout members of the Sect of the True Faith of Recension IV of the Gospel of the Rules of W (Reformed).The OP contrasted on one hand the blithe, indiscriminate accessibility of the original D&amp;D concept with the prospect of one that &quot;allows those who use and know modern media to have an easier time of picking it up&quot; than those lacking the prerequisite. Of what the instigator thinks that entry barrier ought to be built has since been made more clear, along with a vehement opposition to the view that such a fannish erection is not called for in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 4786491, member: 80487"] In the decades of my involvement, in the circles in which I have played, D&D has not been "all about" ANY tiny subset of a ghettoized media fandom. I think the nature of that experience has partly but significantly to do with the limited overlap of its extent with the history of the World Wide Web. In the 1980s, there was annually in the little city I called home a "science fiction convention" that pretty much took over a "resort hotel" that no longer stands. It was an extremely eclectic convocation, bringing together people whose spectrum of vocations and avocations had in common the one characteristic of engaging the imagination. Role-play gamers were well represented -- but not as an isolated clique; not even as a monolithic one, much less as devout members of the Sect of the True Faith of Recension IV of the Gospel of the Rules of W (Reformed). The OP contrasted on one hand the blithe, indiscriminate accessibility of the original D&D concept with the prospect of one that "allows those who use and know modern media to have an easier time of picking it up" than those lacking the prerequisite. Of what the instigator thinks that entry barrier ought to be built has since been made more clear, along with a vehement opposition to the view that such a fannish erection is not called for in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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