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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flobby" data-source="post: 4660747" data-attributes="member: 8569">Late as usual...Little late on the thread (as usual..) but had to put my two cents in. I think I read 2 or 3 posts from people that were open about D&D AND had a great social life, girls, etc... Can't say I can relate. I knew two guys who were totally open about the hobby in high school - one wore a hat that looked like something a hobbit should wear and a dice bag on his belt - pretty sure no girlfriend there! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> My roommate was the other guy. After college we designed a d20 game and when we'd go to parties he would try to pick up girls by saying - Hey! me and my friend here are writing an RPG! No one ever came home with us at the time.I was a bit of a dork, still am I guess - didn't go out of the way to hide D&D but wasn't very vocal about it either. My friends were either gamers or the guys who smoked in the back of the school (they would make fun of me for playing! Like smoking by the dumpster is so much cooler! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />) Not that everyone that I played with was a dork. Or was a closet-dork rather. One of my gamer friends was on the football team but he wouldn't play at school with us and I'm pretty sure he would have killed me if I told his football buddies (are you reading this Rich? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Anyway I think more often than not is that most gamers were not one of the cool kids. And most of us tried to hide it.Now that I'm older though and don't give a %$#! what people think, I'm pretty open about playing and looking back I think those two guys are the coolest, most hardcore people I know - total respect for them. They were proud of who the were. (And actually guy number 2 gets all kinds of action now.)But I digress... the question was if the book would hurt the hobby? I'd say if anything it would help it. D&D is a GEEKY hobby, you're kidding yourself if you think its not. I think your more likely to get new players by just admitting it instead of trying to make it sound cool. So just be a geek and be proud of it - and there a lot of us from all walks of life with at least a little geek in us. ...that and the book just sounds pretty funny. I think what REALLY turns people off from D&D is how way too SERIOUS some us take the hobby more than the geekyness (word?) of it.done.</blockquote>

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