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<blockquote data-quote="GameDaddy" data-source="post: 5324317" data-attributes="member: 80711">It was not! When D&amp;D first showed up, it was adopted by smart people. Smart young people who were leaders in college, who were leaders in their community. I had GM'ed for more than four years before a stoner (For you kids, that's what we called drug abusers back in the day) even showed up for one of my games...&nbsp;The people that were in my games back then, with the exception of two, went to college, became leaders in business, and in the military, started their own companies, were self-employed as craftsmen and home builders, became electronic and civil engineers, teachers, and civil servants as well.Most of them raised families of their own...&nbsp;For the record, the mainstream in 1977-79 was boring as hell. Their was a recession (of course). Their was a short revival of Disco. Hoolywood was busy making movies about drug lords, gunslingers, and pimps (just like they do now)... although Spielberg did do Star Wars and E.T. to break the trend of retarded movies being released. The early 80's was a Rennaissance of Fantasy and saw the full blooming of Science Fiction, Wargames was the hot geek movie of the week. The Cold War was still on full blast, The Gipper a former hollywood B movie actor was in charge of the government... The military was prepping for WWIII. Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and Eric Clapton were hot.&nbsp;In truth, that stoner showed up after that movie Mazes and Monsters came out. Even he, turned out to be a competent business manager... (Who probably still tokes heavily on the side...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GameDaddy, post: 5324317, member: 80711"] It was not! When D&D first showed up, it was adopted by smart people. Smart young people who were leaders in college, who were leaders in their community. I had GM'ed for more than four years before a [I]stoner ([/I]For you kids, that's what we called drug abusers back in the day[I])[/I] even showed up for one of my games... The people that were in my games back then, with the exception of two, went to college, became leaders in business, and in the military, started their own companies, were self-employed as craftsmen and home builders, became electronic and civil engineers, teachers, and civil servants as well. Most of them raised families of their own... For the record, the mainstream in 1977-79 was boring as hell. Their was a [I]recession[/I] (of course). Their was a short revival of Disco. Hoolywood was busy making movies about drug lords, gunslingers, and pimps (just like they do now)... although Spielberg did do Star Wars and E.T. to break the trend of retarded movies being released. The early 80's was a Rennaissance of Fantasy and saw the full blooming of Science Fiction, [I]Wargames[/I] was the hot geek movie of the week. The Cold War was still on full blast, The Gipper a former hollywood B movie actor was in charge of the government... The military was prepping for WWIII. Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and Eric Clapton were hot. In truth, that stoner showed up after that movie M[I]azes and Monsters[/I] came out. Even he, turned out to be a competent business manager... (Who probably still tokes heavily on the side...) [/QUOTE]

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