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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 787677" data-attributes="member: 10397">In my experience when I say "DnD" most people have no notion what I'm talking about. When I clarify to "Dungeons and Dragons" some have heard the name...but less than I would think. Many other people in my general age bracket(I'm 21 I consider my age bracket mid teens to early twenties or so) tend to assume its a video or computer game. same when I use the term RPG...I encounter surprisingly few people online and elsewhere who are familiar with tabletop RPGs.  Related to the topic although it wasnt about me and I dont know how much shame was invovled I did have one experience I'd like to relate. Although I dont really remember the details clearly as it was a while ago and it made me so mad I couldnt think straight(or in my case, clearly)  I used to work in a GameKeeper store(for those of you who dont know the Gamekeeper started as primarily a boardgame and standard cardgame chain..expanded...got baught out by WoTC) and one day a kid(about 16 or 17) came in looking for the DnD core rolebooks. I pointed them out to him told him the price gave him info on the game. Later he came back with his mother. thats when things started getting unpleasant. I dont remember the details as I was busy trying to be polite when I felt like cussing her out but first she brought up all the usual concerns...Dungeosna dn Dragons is Devil worship etc. then she complained about the price(and this was I believe when the core rulebooks were still $20 a peice if I remember right). then at some point she told me outright that her son "uses his imagination to much". of course I had to bite me tongue...nearly off...to refrain from screaming at her. She went on in this vain talking about how he spent all his time thinking things up and using his imagination instead of doing homework...if I remember right she also consitently refered to the products as "crap, garbage, trash" etc. Their was more but I've blocked a lot of it out. she DID buy him the books though. It took me about 20 minutes to calm down afterwards. Ohh if I remember corectly she also called him "stupid" several times...she was never super rude to me but she was horrible to him. He seemed like a bright kid and was very polite to me, but she seemed to think he was stupid and darn near worthless.  Like I said a little off topic...but I tought it fit.</blockquote>

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