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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5035790" data-attributes="member: 40177">I just think it's funny that a guy who says he's from "Faerun" was wondering even for a second why RPGers are at all "uncool".  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />For what it's worth, in sixth grade I used to run lunch hour games.  This was around, um, 1995?  And I brought in a lot of guys that you could consider "Cool".  (and some that definitely weren't - any 8th grader that played with us was definitely not cool - and we all knew it!)  I had an ongoing D&D campaign that, at the high point, had 20 players.  Yeah, twenty.  And a lot of them were on the basketball team, or whatever else.And when I moderated Battletech games?  Holy crap.  I dimly remember a hugely varied crowd.I also (and this is a favourite story) had two friends of mine, who happened to be girls, who thought that "D&D is really nerdy" and wouldn't even listen to me when I tried to explain it to them.  Even though I knew they'd like it - being all into anime, back when it was still called "japanimation".  I wound up copying most of the tables for BECMI, and making a whole bunch of notes, and "introducing" them to this "new game I made up".  Which, by the way, they loved.  Which goes to show that for some, it was just the NAME of the game that made people assume it was uncool - the actual game itself wasn't much of a problem.  (The same, by the way, happened a few years ago, when my girlfriend at the time's father found out I was into 'Dungeons and Dragons' and made fun of me - in a polite way, but basically kept calling me a geek.  Finally, I shot back with 'your daughter's been playing RIFTS for years!'  And he was like 'yeah, so?  how is that the same?')As for me... yeah, I was a geek.  Everyone knew it.  But I was a "borderline" geek, in that I had friends with most of the major groups.  I was at all the big parties for my school.  So, I was a geek, but not enough of a geek that anyone ever gave me a problem for it.</blockquote>

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