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knottyprof
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Missed this episode (maybe catch in onDemand later). Honestly, any main stream media acknowledgement of the game or even RPG genre is a good thing, even if it is done in a mocking way. After all it is just a game. Is there a culture or sub-culture connected to it? Sure, just like MMO gamers or other social groups where people get together to share their interests. But it is still just a game, a means for people to share an experience of make believe where they can pretend to be something more, a means to escape from the duldroms of normal life. But anymore it is big business where even companies like Hasbro can cash in. So if a mainstream comedy comprised of archetypical nerds and geeks wants to use a game I have grown up with and spent a lot of time playing and thinking about as a plot line, all I have to say is Thank You for acknowledging my interest.
Honestly, would you rather see a bunch of 20 somethings sitting around playing the game and making fun of it or Tom Hanks wandering a sewer system thinking he is really in some sort of fantasy dungeon. Just goes to show how a societies views can change over time from a game that was perceived as satanic and players were thinly veiled devil worshippers to one where the game can elicit jokes and stereotyped as the domain of geeks and nerds.
Honestly, would you rather see a bunch of 20 somethings sitting around playing the game and making fun of it or Tom Hanks wandering a sewer system thinking he is really in some sort of fantasy dungeon. Just goes to show how a societies views can change over time from a game that was perceived as satanic and players were thinly veiled devil worshippers to one where the game can elicit jokes and stereotyped as the domain of geeks and nerds.
Rune
Once A Fool
Mazes & Monsters. Hands down. I've gotten lots of great gaming-inspiration from that movie. The Big Bang Theory? Not so much.
Ed_Laprade
Adventurer
I stand corrected! By both of you. Will have to watch it then. I have watched a few, and must give props to the one where they were stranded in the desert in full Trek costumes. It was well handled, and I was impressed.
Serpine
Explorer
Yeah, I kept rooting for a 1 almost every time the dice got thrown, just to see how it would be handled, for instance "I rolled a 1? What does that mean" "It means you hit Sheldon." "Oh... Cool!"
I was really feeling for Howard with the increasing demands for silly voices. I've been there: You ham it up a bit when you start DMing a session and next thing you know you can't even drop down a random kobold without some expectation of theatrics.
knottyprof
First Post
Just watched onDemand and the episode was awesome. Only complaint was the idea that the DM makes all the rolls. Where the heck does this idea come from? I think they did the same thing in the Community episode a year or two back. I have never played in a game where the DM made all the rolls.
I want to know what chart Sheldon and Amy were using at the end, I don't think it is in the Player's handbook of any edition.
I want to know what chart Sheldon and Amy were using at the end, I don't think it is in the Player's handbook of any edition.
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
There was no chart.
knottyprof
First Post
ya think? It was a bit of a rhetorical statement.
There is a 3rd party 3.5 book that might actually have such a chart, but I don't think I would want to play in a campaign where that particular resource would be used.
