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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dreaded_beast" data-source="post: 1431686" data-attributes="member: 11185">Nah, don't think it's dumb. DnD has been given such a "negative" "geeky" in the 80's and 90's that, in my opinion, that has become the general outlook when "gamers" think of DnD. At least that is what it was like with my other groups, where they wouldn't try and discuss DnD with their non-gamer friends.For myself, I am discovering that the majority of the people I know have almost NO knowledge regarding DnD. An anology that I usually come up with them is that it is like "Final Fantasy (or video game), except you can do more..." They have no pre-formed ideas that DnD is considered a "geeky" hobby and are very receptive to hearing about what it is. While this doesn't necessarily mean that they will play, they are not burden by all the negative connotations associated with the game since they have never heard about it before.On the other hand, I am always amazed at the people I meet who, in my opinoin, I never thought would have played: my good friend (a martial arts instructor) who I was friends with for a couple years before even finding out he was a BIG fan, a new co-worker who is a mildly "scary" looking ex-convict (he LOVES the Drizzt novels), an old friend's younger brother and his friends who live in my city's version of "the ghetto" (they actually went to the local hobby store and stole books to play DND <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> ), and old classmates from my old martial arts class: a Yale Lawyer turned Parole Officer because he thought it was more "fun" and a philosophy student who practices Buddhism, Taoism, and all sorts of spiritual arts.I guess my point is that you never know who plays (or used to play) until you ask. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Sorry for the off-topic, back to the thread!</blockquote>

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