Also, with some bits about wargames and stuff: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dungeons-dragons-saved-my-life
Quote(Make all the jokes you want, but some of my fellow-players were jocks who had girlfriends...
Woot, my subculture within the subculture finally gets some recognition!
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 22, 2014, 03:15:51 PM
Quote(Make all the jokes you want, but some of my fellow-players were jocks who had girlfriends...
Woot, my subculture within the subculture finally gets some recognition!
I gamed with a few guys like that :)
The revisionist popularity is only because so many of the Gen Xers that played D&D back then are so prevalent in modern media now; it's taken a generation to undo all the damage Tom Hanks did to the hobby in after-school special, panicking the fuck out of Reaganaut-era mothers. NEVER FORGET
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 22, 2014, 05:03:44 PM
it's taken a generation to undo all the damage Tom Hanks did to the hobby in after-school special, panicking the fuck out of Reaganaut-era mothers. NEVER FORGET
I remember that one. :D
All this D&D talk in online press has made me all nostalgic.
Quote from: Tamas on July 23, 2014, 03:49:56 AM
All this D&D talk in online press has made me all nostalgic.
:yes:
L.
I look forward to the day I can play it again. :)
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 23, 2014, 01:08:19 PM
I look forward to the day I can play it again. :)
:cool:
Damn, that's why I should have had children, I knew there was something. :D
edit:The guy's right about Deities and Demigods; I'm regretting selling my stuff years ago. :(
A very good article
I wonder how many Languisher's have played this with any regularity in their lifetime. Be interesting to see by age group too. I bet upwards to 80%.
Quote from: 11B4V on July 23, 2014, 01:38:16 PM
A very good article
I wonder how many Languisher's have played this with any regularity in their lifetime. Be interesting to see by age group too. I bet upwards to 80%.
I think my friends and I played from around 78 to 81, before other stuff occurred; maybe 14-17 years old.
Not me. I grew up in a town devoid of roleplayers, so I had to make do with choose your own adventure books (Lone Wolf and SteveJackson/Ian Livingstone stuff). :Embarrass:
Quote from: Syt on July 23, 2014, 01:54:53 PM
Not me. I grew up in a town devoid of roleplayers, so I had to make do with choose your own adventure books (Lone Wolf and SteveJackson/Ian Livingstone stuff). :Embarrass:
:wub:
You know you can get those on smartphones now, right? I have House of Hell on my Samsung.
Not me. I never understood the attraction.
I played not so much D&D as such but equivalents in Swedish religiously from 6th grade upwards, around 1984 it was. Some games in English we turned to were Gammaworld, Traveller and something with Frontier in it that I forget right now. The 80's were a lot of fun that way, but then I turned into a jock and then a drunk.
I played fairly regularly from the late 80s to the early 2000s, and over the last couple of years I've gotten back at it again.
Quote from: Caliga on July 23, 2014, 01:56:36 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 23, 2014, 01:54:53 PM
Not me. I grew up in a town devoid of roleplayers, so I had to make do with choose your own adventure books (Lone Wolf and SteveJackson/Ian Livingstone stuff). :Embarrass:
:wub:
You know you can get those on smartphones now, right? I have House of Hell on my Samsung.
I didn't know that. :)
Project Aon lets you play all the Lone Wolf books, though (loved them at the time, esp. the glossy maps that were in each book :nerd: ): http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
I never have. Always fancied doing so when I was in my teens but I just didn't know anyone else who would be interested in rpgs.
Same as Syt, the closest I got was choose your own adventures. Lone Wolf was fantastic.
That and looking through PDFs of RPG and manuals and sighing. And the occasional daliance with online play which never went anywhere.
I have to say though had I the opportunity to play it I'm not so sure I would have...the idea of sitting around with friends and telling stories just seems.....awry.
Heh, played RPGs through most of the 80's starting around 1982 and in college into the early 90's. Played a little here and there since then, but mostly I just like to read the books and rules systems now, kind of fascinating how some rules systems develop over time.
You buy games you never play? Shocking.
Somce you're not here to jam them up your ass, they get shelved instead.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 24, 2014, 09:51:01 AM
Somce you're not here to jam them up your ass, they get shelved instead.
:lol: