Which comes first? D&D or Geekiness

[Readerbreeder]

I can only speak from personal experience, but for me, geekiness definitely came first -- my brother and I were creating a complete milieu with our Star Wars figures for a few years before D&D.

On a side note, does anyone else differentiate between geekiness and nerdiness? I had always thought that a person could geek out on all kinds of stuff. For example, you have car geeks, stat geeks in sports, RPG geeks, etc. Nerdiness, for me, is the stereotypical glasses-wearing, one-shirttail-out kind of guy/girl you see in the Revenge of the Nerds movies.

 

[Azul]

I think that generally speaking geeks are attracted to D&D and their geekiness is further reinforced by D&D....a vicious circle of geekdom.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[Mark CMG]

Mere coincidence!











*snort*

 

[derelictjay]

I had to pick the 4th option. Why, I play D&D, and I did beat up on geeks. I did this back in middle school. But when I got to high school, I found that it was more enjoyable to hang out with the geeks than the cool people. I was introduced to D&D in middle school, and I'm not a very good geek, though I do have alot of geek tendencies.

 

[Razz0putin]

I refuse to vote because like the term munchkin it is an ill defined word to begin with.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I refuse to vote because like the term munchkin it is an ill defined word to begin with.

How are these words ill-defined?

What do you perceive to be the most common definition of each?


What is your preferred definition of each?


It just might help to clarify your assertion.




edit --- oh, I'm with the voting majority here, btw.

 

[Buttercup]

Not so sure. Cool people play D&D. So obviously the relationship has yet to be shown to be significant.

Sounds like your underlying assumption is that geek != cool. I beg to differ.

 

[JediSoth]

I voted for the "geeks are drawn to D&D" option, because in my experience you will most likely have other 'geeky' interests prior to coming to D&D. At least, I've never met anyone who played D&D but didn't have any other interests that could be labeled 'geeky'.

I agree with Sniffles on this one. Even the guys I play with who are sports fanatics have geeky pursuits outside of D&D. One guy programmed a TRS-80 portable to "roll" dice and brought it to the game instead of dice. He did the same thing with a PDA.

JediSoth


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 200 Posts! I'm rockin' now!

 

[DwelleroftheDeep]

On a side note, does anyone else differentiate between geekiness and nerdiness?

Well the dictionary says that both are obsessive about a few things but a nerd is smart where a geek is not nessessarily so (and if he is smart he is by definition a nerd as well).

 

[lior_shapira]

I deny the connection between geekiness and rpg's. If you want you can claim a connection between geeks and almost anything from science fiction and fantasy to books(any book) to documentaries...

I've played with quite a few players over the years and I don't consider any of them geeks. Geek is such a high school concept anyway. Maybe some people back in school days considered me a geek (for reading a lot, for playing d&d, for not liking sports...) but now... hmmm... they're probably low-paid, low-browed, tv watching people who I wouldn't like to know, and I hang around with intelligent, interesting people who have diverse interests and who can hold their own in any conversation.

So, d&d and geekiness, not related!