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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diamond Cross" data-source="post: 5445388" data-attributes="member: 51024">This was inspired by the thread about being in the (RPG) closet. A claim was made that D&D has a huge influence on the American culture.I'd like to submit that it does not.Because, aside from an occasional feature in a TV show or movie, I just don't see it.Here's an example of what I mean.Here's a few phrases that are used commonly every day:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him --</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ay, there's the rub</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Brevity is the soul of wit</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Conscience does make cowards of us all</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Good night, ladies</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dog will have its day</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frailty, thy name is woman</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Get thee to a nunnery</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hoist with his own petard</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In my heart of hearts</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It smells to heaven</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">More in sorrow than in anger</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In my mind's eye</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Murder most foul</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The lady doth protest too much, methinks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Though this be madness, yet there is method in't</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sweets to the sweet</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To be, or not to be: that is the question</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To thine own self be true</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The play's the thing</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Neither a borrower nor a lender be</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Not a mouse stirring</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Something is rotten in the state of Denmark</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What a piece of work is a man</li> </ul>The source, of course is from Shakespeare's Hamlet. I'd even go so far as to say that many people in America often uses these kinds of phrases without being aware of where they originated from.So, who uses D&D phrases and slang in that fashion? Do you actually see people thinking in gaming terms when watching a car accident and saying like "Uh oh, somebody fumbled that skill roll"?Now, I do remember there was a huge concern over it in the early eighties. My high school even held a rally that talked about the dangers of the occult and claimed D&D led to the occult as well. But that fever has pretty much died out and you generally don't hear about it anymore.I am also aware of the influence it has had on Computer games, but it's also possible that these computer games would've developed independently of pen and paper RPGs. For millions of people play MMORGs as opposed to the pen and paper. But I don't know for certain, I am simply speculating.But at least as far as I know, that's pretty much it.So, I'd like to know more about how D&D has influenced American culture beyond what I know.</blockquote>

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