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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 1580022" data-attributes="member: 7280">Honestly though, can more celebrity notice be bad for D&D? It's like art, sure there are people out there that studiously avoid mainstreaming completely but there's plenty of room (and I think it's better for everyone involved honestly) when people who get noticed start into with things. I don't know how many players I owe completely over to that short, stupid scene in ET. Wil Wheaton writes books and people buy them because he was on Star Trek and in some movies, if he writes about D&D the worst that could happen is that we could turn him away because we're too snobbish to allow for the fact that all sorts of people have been and will be involved with the hobby.And for that matter, if you sense of being 'special' is wrapped up in whatever geeky qualities you associate with D&D to the extent that an absence of that geeky quality might mean a lack of self esteem or ...whatever, that's sort of scary. At least self-limiting, it's a hobby or a career but it shouldn't be ALL that you are even in the bowels of ENWorld where all of us hardcore "must have access to the thousands of voices of D20" sorts might congregate. I'm not even sure D&D should be a clique even, it's just something that people DO. Casting ominous warnings about people damaging the hobby by their presence just seems..bigoted is the only word that I can think of, but you get my drift. Popular people play D&D, unpopular people play D&D. Just because that's outside of someone's experience doesn't mean squat.</blockquote>

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