Making fun of D&D

[BOZ]

Then why can't we draw in as many people into D&D as fantasy football? :\

it's the lack of social stigma. sports fan-ism can be just as bad, if not worse, than the average geek out hobby, but because it is a socially acceptible activity, no one will acknowledge how easily it lends itself towards geekism.

my dad is a total baseball geek (he spends way way more time on sports statistics for his strat-o-matic league than i spend on D&D stats, and i run the Creature Catalog!) but he will never admit to how geeky that is.

 

[Ranger REG]

it's the lack of social stigma. sports fan-ism can be just as bad, if not worse, than the average geek out hobby, but because it is a socially acceptible activity, no one will acknowledge how easily it lends itself towards geekism.

my dad is a total baseball geek (he spends way way more time on sports statistics for his strat-o-matic league than i spend on D&D stats, and i run the Creature Catalog!) but he will never admit to how geeky that is.

You may be right. The sports geek may not be able to solve an algebra problem, but that same geek can project this season's batting average and RBIs of a professional baseball player.

 

[BOZ]

my dad can do all of that - he's an accountant. he loves math.

 

[KenM]

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

That is awesome, Ken!

 

[Balgus]

compare football to DND? that's smart

What idiot decided to take a game of the first three stats and compare them to a game that is predominantly the latter three stats. Granted that on some days, it is a battle of fortitude and endurance, like those 16 hour sessions, or a dexterity challenge to paint the minis.

But how are these two games in any way similar?

I understand how the fantasy league work, you start witha given number of points (PT buy) and you build a team spending points to get certain players- Favre is more expensive than Young. And then you watch the game and keep track of points accumulated during each game. At the end of the season, the team with themost points win.

All your efforts are poured in at the beginning of season. And for the next 15 weeks, you watcha nd do nothing.

For DND, you build a chaacter, but that is only a small part of it. The best part is the playing.

And my biggest gripe is WHY you would choose to compare the two. Would advertising Football as DND really get more football fans? that's like telling geeks to watch football cause it is like baseball. Most of us dont care. If you dont like football, chances are you wont like baseball- or any other sport.

 

[BOZ]

LOL

did you make that Ken? that's funny.

 

[Ranger REG]

And my biggest gripe is WHY you would choose to compare the two. Would advertising Football as DND really get more football fans? that's like telling geeks to watch football cause it is like baseball. Most of us dont care. If you dont like football, chances are you wont like baseball- or any other sport.

I don't think the ad is targeting us. It's targeting those who give us swirlies and wedgies ... even to this day.

 

[VoidDragon]

It's targeting those who give us swirlies and wedgies ... even to this day.

You know you say this jokingly, but I've noticed that a lot of the nerds I know have some kind of self-defence training. Half of my D&D group (mostly 17 and 18-year olds) in fact. (Karate, Tang Soo Do, and traditional wrestling.)

 

[Desdichado]

I don't think the ad is targeting us. It's targeting those who give us swirlies and wedgies ... even to this day.

You still get swirlies and wedgies, RR? That explains a lot. I'm not sure what yet, but I'm sure it's a lot...