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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5029946" data-attributes="member: 75712">Mmm, seconded! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Hehehe, so D&D is uncool because of its association with D&D players, not the other way around.  Astute!  IME, this is actually pretty close to it.  I really don't think D&D itself is considered uncool; rather most people are just kind of neutral about it.  It's not exactly mainstream, sure, but what hobbies truly are?  I think D&D's rep been tempered these last couple decades, by the "rise of the geek", the insane popularity of mmorpgs, and the simple fact that a lot of influential people today have done or do it.  And I don't just mean filmstars, but also a lot of the people here: managers, researchers, educators, parents, lawyers, businessmen, and so on. I really don't believe it has a "bad" rep at all; if there is stigma, it's more to do with unfamiliarity, and maybe a recollection of the bizarre controversies from the 80's.</blockquote>