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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vartan" data-source="post: 5312007" data-attributes="member: 26155">I'd also like to see a good documentary about roleplaying games, something resembling an actual work of journalism that features interviews with relevant figures in the RPG industry and gives some perspective on the hobby's history, the gamer subculture and the influence of RPGs on popular culture. Such a documentary would need to cover the more eccentric behavior of some gamers, as well as the negative stereotypes of gaming in the media, but it would be nice if it were just one of many topics covered. I'm not crazy about The Dungeon Masters because it went out of its way to make its subjects look bad. On the other hand, I wouldn't be much more interested in a "RPGs saved my life" or "hey, eccentric geniuses are okay too" documentary. I'm most interested in seeing a documentary about the hobby than one about my fellow hobbyists. It would be easy to make a puff piece about gaming. It's obviously easy to make a "Trekkies" or "Confessions of a Superhero" clone that seeks to profit from the living stereotypes in the RPG hobby. Unfortunately, making a documentary about RPGs that is worth my time would take too much work for too little reward. Then again, good docus have been made about high school policy debate and crossword competitions, so I suppose anything is possible.</blockquote>