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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7983318" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>You can't get in someone's grill if they don't even know you exist. </p><p></p><p>And, I'm afraid that this isn't "just his home table" - insofar as "just a home table" is not worth an article in Variety. Your table wouldn't make for such an article, and neither would mine. This is a table of celebrities. Nearly a dozen named players, and three folks who do ancillary things for the game (like paint minis) - all men.</p><p></p><p>If a bunch of similarly placed, prominent, and powerful people got together in the drawing room regularly for brandy and cigars, we would look sideways at it. The article itself points out how it is social bonding, the creation of a community... a community of influential men with no women in it is not a good look these days.</p><p></p><p>In getting their names in Variety for this, they are engaging in PR - "look at us, you'll like us more because we are geeks too!" And yeah, D&D gets a boost from having celebrity names associated with it. But, if you are going to play the PR game, exactly what image you're projecting is up for criticism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7983318, member: 177"] You can't get in someone's grill if they don't even know you exist. And, I'm afraid that this isn't "just his home table" - insofar as "just a home table" is not worth an article in Variety. Your table wouldn't make for such an article, and neither would mine. This is a table of celebrities. Nearly a dozen named players, and three folks who do ancillary things for the game (like paint minis) - all men. If a bunch of similarly placed, prominent, and powerful people got together in the drawing room regularly for brandy and cigars, we would look sideways at it. The article itself points out how it is social bonding, the creation of a community... a community of influential men with no women in it is not a good look these days. In getting their names in Variety for this, they are engaging in PR - "look at us, you'll like us more because we are geeks too!" And yeah, D&D gets a boost from having celebrity names associated with it. But, if you are going to play the PR game, exactly what image you're projecting is up for criticism. [/QUOTE]
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