Great D&D article in today's Boston Globe!

[nopantsyet]

Danger Planet is primarily focused on minis, but they do more than that. They have a wonderful non-mini board game selection (Settlers of Catan and so on), and their RPG section is good, but nowhere near as extensive as Pandemonium. They have all the WotC books that you could want, a loose collection of third-party d20 publishers (be there when the book you want is released), and finally a decent scattering of non-d20 RPGs, including a copy of Rune that stares at me lovingly every time I go there.

God bless that place and those guys! They very ably part me from my money, and are a very friendly bunch. I've been able to fall back on them for a table at times when the wife was dissertating and needed me gone. Not as much for the truly eclectic, but the fruits of reproduction have put eclecticism on an eighteen-plus year hiatus for me.

And I just found that article and placed it on my wife's pillow for her bedtime enjoyment. Maybe it will vindicate my earlier forcing her to listen to me rambling about how pleased I am with the evil in my game.

 

[Dirigible]

So, when an ill-informed person badmouths our hobby we pile on them like rugby players on a plate of orange slices, and when a rather better informed person gives it lukewarm praise we thank them profusely?

 

[JoelF]

This was a nice thing to read - especially after seeing a recent re-run of Forensic Files on Court TV. In it their suspect was discovered to be a gamer, and they had one of the detectives on the case comment that once they found out he played Dungeons and Dragons, they immediately suspected he could have committed the murder and was also a pervert. The case was from 1995, which surprised me, since I thought that mentality had passed with the 80s. It also had an amusing bit where they showed the game "being played" using the Dungeons and Dragons boxed set that came out with 3rd edition- and showed someone moving a d20 along the grid on the map as if it was a piece in a board game.

 

[mythusmage]

And all with the gleeful goal of causing a certain somebody (points at the post two posts above this one) tons of embarrasment.

(Don't you hate it when people interrupt?)

 

[Darrin Drader]

So, when an ill-informed person badmouths our hobby we pile on them like rugby players on a plate of orange slices, and when a rather better informed person gives it lukewarm praise we thank them profusely?

Sure, why not? What's wrong with recognizing someone who obviously does not game for having an open mind and helping inform others? Or would you prefer that we dogpile on them for not writing this article in the mid-80's when the hobby was getting all the negative press?

Either way, I'm going back to the article and posting some positive feedback.

 

[Blood Jester]

So, when an ill-informed person badmouths our hobby we pile on them like rugby players on a plate of orange slices, and when a rather better informed person gives it lukewarm praise we thank them profusely?

And thanking someone is bad because...?

-Color me confused.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I wasn't going to assume that the frat boy would turn it into a drinking game. If he did, he obviously wasn't into the hobby.

I'm by no means a frat boy -- in fact, some of the Greeks at my alma mater would spit out their beer bongs at the suggestion -- but don't knock D&D&D (Dungeons and Dragons and Drunks) until you've tried it!

"Wow, a crit! And with a great-axe! That's three shots!"

(On the other hand, I don't recommend playing while stoned, unless you're a Sisyphus fan.)

 

[Hypersmurf]

Don't knock D&D&D (Dungeons and Dragons and Drunks) until you've tried it!

(On the other hand, I don't recommend playing while stoned, unless you're a Sisyphus fan.)

D&D&D&D - Dungeons and Dragons and Drunks on Drugs?

-Hyp.

 

[Bards R Us]

I am SO itchin to link this article and/or thread over on the RPG.net

Not that it would change the typical attitude over there of "D02 SuxxORs!" or "RPGs or dying, help me!" unfortunately, but you never know.

 

[Bards R Us]

And who said RPGers are negative?

If you had said RPG.nut...er I mean RPG.netters, well....