Public Dorkery

[blargney the second]

That's a great article!
-blarg

 

[Olaf the Stout]

That's a nice article. After reading it I think a non-player would still be quite confused about what exactly it is we do when we play D&D. Reading the article also just made me realise just how geeky D&D sounds to non-players! That's ok. I say we revel in our geekiness.

[pedantic]Since when did the D&D creators release un updated rulebook last year?[/pedantic]

Olaf the Stout

 

[Princesskeyblade]

Great Article.... I loved the glossary at the end too....

 

[Hussar]

Good stuff.

I just got Dungeon 145 in the mail yesterday ((damn overseas post)) and read the editorial in it. It was talking about how the editor, whose name I forget, is much younger than everyone else. Interesting to see that this group is a pretty wide spread of ages as well. I mean, heck, only one of them was alive when Star Wars came out.

 

[Frost]

That's probably the most accurate depiction of what D&D actually is that I've ever seen in the press. I mean, seriously, talking smack and rolling dice, that's D&D in a nutshell.

Took the words out of my mouth. The article actually captures what a playing D&D "looks" like.

 

[Hairfoot]

What it didn't show was nerds dressed in armour and hooded cloaks, leaping on tables and chanting spells, which seems to be a common understanding of what goes on at an RPG session.

Hopefully, an article like this gives some perspective to people who say "roleplaying is so dorky. Oh, gotta run! I have to catch the season finale of Buffy, then I'm starting the new Harry Potter book!"

 

[pallandrome]

Props to the gamers for being normal with a reporter around, too.

Yeah, right, normal...

I'm just thankful that she neglected to mention the Awakened Sheep that got caught in the Black Tentacles, and the wizard that tried to help him out...

Wizard: I Grease the sheep.
DM: Does Etos consent to being greased?
Etos: Always!

Yeah, we didn't really hold back for her a bit. She did a good job, especially considering that she knew NOTHING about the hobby.

EDIT: We did seriously consider having a cauldron with bubbling ketchup waiting for her when she showed up, and to refer to her as the night's "sacrifice" as a prank, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to do it. We're too lazy, for one thing.

 

[Gez]

Wizard: I Grease the sheep.
DM: Does Etos consent to being greased?
Etos: Always!

You guys are dorks.

 

[CharlesRyan]

You know, this sort of story really isn't as rare as you all think. When all of the D&D press clippings were crossing my desk (and there were a buttload in 2004, the 30th anniversary year), 98% of them were just like this: portraying D&D and the players as quirky and a bit dorky, but generally pretty positive.

I probably saw something close to 100 articles like this one when I was running D&D, and all but a handful were positive.

 

[Ender_rpm]

See, I wasn't gonna post this here, but since you did...

(I'm the DM, Pallandrome was the Orc, and she got all of it on record. God help us )