Israeli army frowns on D&D (merged)

[Gez]

“They're detached from reality and suscepitble (sic) to influence,” the army says.

Only those who play fighters with low Wisdom scores. Me, I always play spellcaster, so my Will save is always high -- I'm not susceptible to influence.

'The game indicates a weak personality'

True. If there's one thing D&D taught us, it's that Charisma is a dump stat. Except if you play a bard or sorcerer, but they suck anyway. Or a cleric or paladin, but then you get MAD (Multiple Ability Dependencies).

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Heh -- I've met more gamers in the Intelligence field in the US military than any other field I could name. Don't know what planet the IDF is coming from on this one. Then again, we try not to take too many lessons from the IDF, mostly because ... <deletes what some might see as a political statement>.

 

[Sun Wukong]

So very nice of them...they obviously haven't met some ENWorlders.

Or, perhaps, that's exactly what they've done.

 

[Trainz]

I am not surprised at all. I don't expect anything rational coming from any army of any country.

Frankly, if anything, roleplayers are more fit for the army than average joe for a variety of reasons. For one, roleplayers spend their time running exercises in problem solving in theoretical hostile environments. For years, once per week.

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(Auto censured...)

 

[Conaill]

A number of the follow-up comments were pointing out that the pictures were from "RD&D", which seems to be a form of LARP popular in Israel. Just Google "RD&D LARP" and see...

Anyone know anything more about this RD&D? The Hebrew is a leetle hard to read Anyone know why they haven't been sued their asses off by WotC for using that name?

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Heh -- I've met more gamers in the Intelligence field in the US military than any other field I could name.

One of our group goes to and from Baghdad fairly frequently, and reports a thriving gaming community in the Green Zone.

And one of our former members (who did random crazy things, like nuking the library in RttToH) is in the DIA.

Brad

 

[The_Universe]

Genuinely the Oddest Condemnation of D&D I Have Ever Encountered

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles//0,7340,L-3052074,00.htmlCheck it out!

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

So would this be post number 4 or 5 on this thing?

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=123826

 

[Krieg]

Hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage!

 

[Jdvn1]

It's so weird it has to be repeated!