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<blockquote data-quote="Elric" data-source="post: 995174" data-attributes="member: 1139">I was at lunch with some guys from work today and we were discussing a company event over the weekend.&nbsp; One&nbsp; guy mentioned that he plays D&amp;D and can't come because he has a D&amp;D session scheduled.&nbsp; Amazingly (at least to me), all of the other guys at lunch said something like &quot;Oh, I liked the TV show/arcade game&quot; or &quot;wasn't that big in the 80s?&quot; or &quot;is that a board game?&quot;There was no stigma attached to D&amp;D.&nbsp; I am now going to a D&amp;D game this weekend <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />This made me wonder: how much of the stigma that gamers feel because of playing D&amp;D is self-inflicted?&nbsp; The group of guys that I was with (ages 20-30 or so) clearly didn't think of D&amp;D as a negative, even though none of them had played.&nbsp; Anyone else have similar experiences?&nbsp; I probably wouldn't have mentioned the D&amp;D game in his place, but my fears proved baseless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elric, post: 995174, member: 1139"] I was at lunch with some guys from work today and we were discussing a company event over the weekend. One guy mentioned that he plays D&D and can't come because he has a D&D session scheduled. Amazingly (at least to me), all of the other guys at lunch said something like "Oh, I liked the TV show/arcade game" or "wasn't that big in the 80s?" or "is that a board game?" There was no stigma attached to D&D. I am now going to a D&D game this weekend :) This made me wonder: how much of the stigma that gamers feel because of playing D&D is self-inflicted? The group of guys that I was with (ages 20-30 or so) clearly didn't think of D&D as a negative, even though none of them had played. Anyone else have similar experiences? I probably wouldn't have mentioned the D&D game in his place, but my fears proved baseless. [/QUOTE]

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