Sigh ... more anti-D&D nonsense

[Shadowdancer]

And, if I may be so judgemental, I've seen some general baseball fans that would stand far less chance of making the 600 yard dash than some RPG fans I know.

A 600 yard dash?!?! There are trained professional athletes who couldn't run a 600 yard dash.

Maybe you meant a 60 yard dash?

Back on topic: I'm a dedicated gamer, and a dedicated sports fan. I play several different types of RPGs, and I participate in several different fantasy sports leagues, primarily baseball and football. I attend gaming conventions and game days at my FLGS, but I attend many more live sporting events on the local, college and sometimes professional level. There are many similarities between the fans of both hobbies.

 

[KenM]

Prison? Military? Cops?

Sounds like D&D is played by badasses, and Fantasy Football is played by wannabees.

You know, I woulnd't be very surprised to find that some of the running backs and defensive ends that these sports nerdlingers have on their imaginary man-pile teams spend some of their off days pretending to be dark elves in their palatial mansions....

I know athelete D&Ders. I wouldn't be surprised.

When i was in Boot Camp, I met more RPG and wargamers then anyplace else besides my FLGS or a con.
I know Kurt Schilling(SP), a pitcher for the Red Sox, is a big time EQ player. He wrote a review of one of the EQ expansions for PCGamer mag once.

 

[replicant2]

Baseball, not football, is America's past time, and don't you forget it!

Not to start a debate on the merits of one sport vs. the other (I like both, for different reasons), but the numbers bear out that football has indeed usurped baseball as America's pastime.

 

[replicant2]

I don't see this as anything significant. While I spend a lot of my time on D&D, I don't feel the need to define myself through it, taking offense at jokes aimed at D&D players. I feel secure enough about my life not to be insulted bu these off-hand comment.

I posted this to the boards not because I was particularly insulted, just to point out the hypocrisy of the reviewer. I should also note that The Boston Globe dedicates a weekly column in its Living/Arts section to the review of video games. Again, I have zero problem with that, but the reviews aren't written with sneers at 30-year-old single men sitting alone in their living room living vicariously as spies or race car drivers as they're playing their X-Box.

I wonder if the absence of condescention in the video game reviews has anything to do with the glossy, full cover inserts advertising video games in the same paper?

Pure coincidence, I'm sure...

 

[ssampier]

*shrugs* One jerk’s opinion, big deal.

I bet if you invited him to the game, he'd be the twink with dual wielded scimitars.

BTW, I'm in a fantasy football league myself. I'm not very good at it, I'm the F.F. equivalent of the RPG guys that, Sit in their Chairs.

 

[StupidSmurf]

A 600 yard dash?!?! There are trained professional athletes who couldn't run a 600 yard dash.

Maybe you meant a 60 yard dash?

Back on topic: I'm a dedicated gamer, and a dedicated sports fan. I play several different types of RPGs, and I participate in several different fantasy sports leagues, primarily baseball and football. I attend gaming conventions and game days at my FLGS, but I attend many more live sporting events on the local, college and sometimes professional level. There are many similarities between the fans of both hobbies.

Ahhh I forget what the heck it's called. They had it on the President's Council On Physical Fitness Test back in the 70's...it was the 600 yard something or other. But yeah...not a dash

I guess I should also pipe in with the fact that I'm in a fantasy football league, and was in a fantasy baseball league this year. I'm the Fantasy Sport equivalent of the newbie D&D player who rolls a die and goes "So...is that good?" and the experienced players are hovering over me going "OK, now do this...and now do that...don't do that thing, it's bad...do this now!"

 

[StupidSmurf]

Which, oddly enough, is Ryl for "I hate the Yankees."

This message brought to you by the Friendly Fenway Foundation for a Better Republic.

And I just need to say, YOU are extremely cool!

:ancing on the freshly dug grave of the Yankees::

 

[Soel]

What's really funny is that D&D is huge in prisons.

I used to run a game when I was incarcerated. I played with all sorts of folks. It is a perfect game for jail, as it lets you forget where you're at for a time being. Also, there are no problems with getting the players together!

We had to use cups and cut up bits of styrofoam for dice (not allowed because of gambling,) that had numbers etched into them. I ran it mostly from memory, and from some photcopied pages from the player's handbook (I had the books mailed to me, but I had to mail them back because someone in the dorm complained about "satanic worship." Really. They became in the warden's eyes, a security risk.) There were many who came and asked what we were doing, but after some time, it was just seen pretty much in the same light as the guys who played spades all the time...

 

[UniversalMonster]

I never played D&D in my parent's basement!

However, I still play in my own basement.

 

[Shadowdancer]

I know Kurt Schilling(SP), a pitcher for the Red Sox, is a big time EQ player. He wrote a review of one of the EQ expansions for PCGamer mag once.

Schilling and another player (backup catcher for the Phillies, can't remember his name) are part owners of the company that owns the rights to the game Squad Leader. They also run an on-line magazine for video games.