top 25 reasons you started playing d+d again

[alsih2o]

well, just to balance out that other thread....

1. chess? but, but, i can't min/max that!
2. couldn't find another use for all those minis
3. scoring babes and drinking brewskis is only thrilling for a while
4. it felt silly just talking as me
5. lack of real things i can bash the crap out of.

lil' help here?

 

[Crothian]

6) Needed use for all those wierd looking dice
7) Needed something for all the single geeks to do on the weekend.
8) Meet women

 

[heimdall]

9) Needed more ways to stay broke buying books.

 

[dave_o]

10 - I found ENWorld, and this rad gaming community, when I had thought all was lost (honestly!).

 

[Darrin Drader]

11) Its in the blood baby, oh yeah!
12) How can you make money designing for the game if you don't play?
13) Inspired by the Lord of the Rings movies, but nowhere else to channel that energy.
14) Despise Tolkien and Lord of the Rings, and have the burning desire to kill every hobbit in the world.
15) No other way to sociailize with fellow geeks.
16) Bashing imaginary monsters is a form of therapy for everyday life that you don't get by paying $100 to sit on the couch for an hour telling some stranger about your mother.

 

[pogre]

17) RQ and WFRP no longer have any support materials.

 

[eryndel]

18. Because the books on your shelf told you too.
19. Because it's not just for satanists anymore
20. Because sitting in the board room reminds you too much of your days in high school.
21. Because there are too many young "whipper-snappers" who think CCG or CRPG's are the end all, be all of gaming.
22. Because now that you are out of college (after 7 years ) you actually have money again.

 

[Melkor]

I'll second number 11 by Baraendur - It is in the blood!

23) Because it beats MMORPGs hands down!
24) Because I am still young enough to hold the dice.

 

[Dispater]

25. You've just read this thread.

 

[johnsemlak]

Well, it's actually why I started playing RPGs again...

1. Saw LotR movies, re-read the books, got reinspired by the fantasy thing.

2. Earlier, I had started playing fastasy computer games a bit, including Balders Gate.

3. Read the 'Greyhawk adventures' novels which are based on classic D&D modules. As novels they rate from bad to OK, but they were very nostalgic reads. I actually got out maps of old modules to follow the novel.