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<blockquote data-quote="Orcus" data-source="post: 3856355" data-attributes="member: 1254">Shortman, you must not have been around in the 80s. If you list cabbage patch dolls and beanie babies, believe me there was a time when D&amp;D was that popular. It had its own cartoon. Schools had D&amp;D clubs and some even had D&amp;D classes. I'm not kidding. Maybe not everywhere, but it was a phenomenon for a while. Then it quickly went back to being &quot;that thing that dorky kids did&quot;. But there was a brief shining moment when it was popular. But people knew what it was and regular kids wanted to play it. I'm not kiddinig.Clark(And frankly, it sucked when D&amp;D was cool; I hated seeing the cool kids trying to join in to my hobby because now it was cool; they didnt really like D&amp;D, they liked it because it was cool; which is the reason that so many &quot;dorky&quot; kids hate cool kids--dorky kids may be dorky but we love what we do and that is why we are dorky, cause what we do isnt considered &quot;cool&quot; but the &quot;cool&quot; people but at least we have the integrity to like what we like because we like it as opposed to the cool kids who just like it cause its cool and when it isnt cool anymore they like something else. of course there are plenty of dorky kids who choose to like dorky stuff not because they actually like it but because they hate the cool kids and want to affiliate themselves with something that those kids dont like....ok, i am getting way far afield on this....sorry)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orcus, post: 3856355, member: 1254"] Shortman, you must not have been around in the 80s. If you list cabbage patch dolls and beanie babies, believe me there was a time when D&D was that popular. It had its own cartoon. Schools had D&D clubs and some even had D&D classes. I'm not kidding. Maybe not everywhere, but it was a phenomenon for a while. Then it quickly went back to being "that thing that dorky kids did". But there was a brief shining moment when it was popular. But people knew what it was and regular kids wanted to play it. I'm not kiddinig. Clark (And frankly, it sucked when D&D was cool; I hated seeing the cool kids trying to join in to my hobby because now it was cool; they didnt really like D&D, they liked it because it was cool; which is the reason that so many "dorky" kids hate cool kids--dorky kids may be dorky but we love what we do and that is why we are dorky, cause what we do isnt considered "cool" but the "cool" people but at least we have the integrity to like what we like because we like it as opposed to the cool kids who just like it cause its cool and when it isnt cool anymore they like something else. of course there are plenty of dorky kids who choose to like dorky stuff not because they actually like it but because they hate the cool kids and want to affiliate themselves with something that those kids dont like....ok, i am getting way far afield on this....sorry) [/QUOTE]

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