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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Illirion" data-source="post: 3012448" data-attributes="member: 38310">I usually explain it the most honest way I can: First I start of by telling them it's a game where you and several other players (you usually play with around 5 people or more) get to create your own hero's (in the style of lord of the rings, in case they don't know any computer fantasy rpg's) except there is one player (called the DM) who doesn't have a hero and gets to create the adventures the other hero's will have to complete instead (he's like a referee/coach at a football match, or the designer of a computergame). It's also the goal of the game to copmplete those adventures and work together with the other hero's in order to overcome the challenges the DM throws at you. Then I say that, because you don't have any electronics, the rules for creating the hero's and the adventures are in big rulebooks which you can use during the game. Finally I say that the adventures usually involve a lot of fighting and combat, so you have to use a board and miniatures to play out the combat situations. Then, after a few sessions of gaming, you've practically played out a whole story created by you and your friends (like lord of the rings again if they don't exactly get the fantasy setting thing yet) and if you don't think that's cool, your not going to like D&D.I'm not a closet gamer, because I always give people an honest answer about what I'm doing on a friday night and I'm not ashamed of it or anything. I know I'm a normal/fun guy most of the time and if people don't already get that I'm a bit geeky sometimes, they'll get it eventually. If they really don't want to asociate with D&D playing people, that's their problem and not mine (and honestly a bit of an anti-social attitude if you ask me). "Sorry, I can't make it friday, I've got D&D that night.""What's D&D?""Oh, it's just a game I play with some friends on friday's and it's kinda hard for me to pass it up. So how about saturday?"(if they continue asking on about it even after that, I'll give them the story above.) Key is not to make D&D the main topic of the conversation (I know it's a subconcious tendency, but try and fight it anyway <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ) unless the person you're talking to has enough time to hear the story and really wants to know.Note that I don't bring D&D and my rpg'ing up spontaneously. I don't do that sort of stuff even with my more "cooler" hobby's, like being guitarist in a band (which generally get's a better response than being the DM of a D&D group <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ).I also have the luck of not having a job yet in which I recieve pay/achieve rank (partly) based on the way others think of me. Sorry btw for the long post :\ .</blockquote>

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