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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adembroski" data-source="post: 3959899" data-attributes="member: 18869">I personally find it difficult to believe that everyone on enworld is a bonofide geek.I have found, as I've grown older, that while D&D is not becoming appreciably more popular to play, it is becoming more accepted outside of that utterly ridiculous social setting known as "High School". Adult gamers are generally open about their own geekness, and it's often seen as an amusing eccentricity more than a defining characteristic to be a gamer once you reach adulthood.It is, and always will be, a niche hobby. It requires imagination in an over-stimulated culture. I'm somewhat shocked people still read. As for the survival of the hobby... this is something I often worry about. Not that I think it'll die, but that I think I'll go too far trying to rope in the WoW and EQ fans. D&D must always been something deeper and more sophisticated, otherwise it looses it's purpose and becomes nothing more than WoW for people who can't afford the monthly fee. I have an acute hate for MMORPGs because one of the finest gamers I've ever had the pleasure to know was roped into WoW (my fault, in fact. He had no interest until I purchased it and he tried it out on my computer). That guy no longer has any patience for what he refers to as Flesh People. When I can get him to attend a regular game, he saturates it with WoW references to the point that I almost want to kick him out of the game. He was among my closest friend... he was the guy I spent 9 hours at the bar every Sunday watching every NFL game we could. Now there is not a waking hour he has off of work when he's not plugged into WoW. He keeps his computer right next to the refrigerator so he doesn't have to get up to eat. Another of my friends nearly fell into the same trap, but, thankfully, he lost his passion after a hard drive failure kept him off for a week. I had initially hoped it was a phase, that eventually he'd come back to real life. It's been years now.Now if I'm more of a geek because I play D&D, so be it. I'll take that happily.</blockquote>

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