Graduate Studies course on D&D?

M:TG is one of very few things linked to the gaming hobby that has actually been aired as an event on television.

That is BIG.

(For the record, Black Knight, I hold a Juris Doctor from a top 20 law school, and a specialized MBA from a program that is #2 of its kind.)
 

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I hereby submit for doctoral thesis consideration:

Magic: the Gathering as an Economic Model of Narcotic Distribution
Subtitled -- It's Called 'Cardboard Crack' for a Reason

Heh!
 

Joshua Randall said:
I hereby submit for doctoral thesis consideration:

Magic: the Gathering as an Economic Model of Narcotic Distribution
Subtitled -- It's Called 'Cardboard Crack' for a Reason

Heh!

This could be a fun game. Here's my doctoral thesis title (not my real doctoral thesis title, but the one I would have written were I to write about D&D):

Alignment, Axioms, and Fantasy Tropes: Moral Decision-Making in Role Playing Games
Subtitled: "I Didn't Spend All Those Years Playing Dungeons and Dragons and Not Learn Something About Courage."
 

nakia said:
Subtitled: "I Didn't Spend All Those Years Playing Dungeons and Dragons and Not Learn Something About Courage."
what's the reference for this quote? i coulda sworn i heard/read it somewhere before...
 



mhacdebhandia said:
One of the Lone Gunmen on The X-Files, I believe.

Nope. It was the X-Files, but it was in the episode 'Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"' (episode 3.20). When the Men In Black (played by Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek) break into a geek kid's bedroom to question him, that's what he says to them.
 

No, it's what he says to Mulder and Scully while describing the encounter with the MIB.

There is an afterschool program involving D&D. I have wondered, why not one with M:TG?

All in all, study of the decline and rise of D&D as a business model is a bit too yawn-inducing in me. After all, I'm just a lazy English Lit Bach. I much prefer talking about it online, it's much more educational in the way I want to be educated about it.

TWK
 

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