When did it ever stop being cool?
I'm sure I still have a first edition Player's Guide and Dungeon Master's Guide (both hardcover) somewhere in my packed away boxes.
My 50 year old son played back then. All 3 of his sons are now playing it....even the 9 year old.
I started playing in Naval Nuclear Power School in 1981 and still do. Just not as much as I did back then.
I’ll check out that youtube channel. Thanks.
Oh the hysteria towards D&D, does anyone remember the made for TV movie that they did where the kid went all psycho and thought he was inside a D&D game in real life and needed to be re-programmed. Can’t remember the name of it though.
The second time I heard a speaker say that, was in a college Sunday School class. I explained I had played the game and didn't feel any warnings from the Spirit.
The instructor thought for a minute and finally said, it's the role playing nature of the game. It can be used to introduce someone to demon worship or other practices.
I thought about it and realized that while that was true and is a danger of the game, the reverse it true too. It could be used to introduce someone to Christian disciplines. The game is not evil, but can be used as a tool for good or evil or just fun.
My college age kids now enjoy the game. My daughter is frequently a dungeon master. In some cases they've played online with their friends using some awesome computerized tools that facilitate the game play.
My late stepson played “Magic: The Gathering.” Does anyone here play or at least familiar with it?
D&D was never cool.
Still gaming. Sporadic nowadays, but will still do some “roll” playing.
When I was assigned with the AF in Germany, I’d get together with some friends from time to time and we’d play D&D well into the night. Great times!
Original D&D was essentially a homemade Lord of the Rings boardgame without the board.
D&D makes you think - you have to use your imagination and really get into it. A lot of libtards have had their minds subjected to Satan and the machine, therefore depriving them of imagination and rational thought, making it impossible to enjoy D&D. The only imagination they show is for deviant sexual fantasy - wonder if there are RPG’s for that?
I marathoned through all of the first campaign last summer and caught up in early fall. Its very good. Matt Mercer is a talented storyteller and does an amazing job of bringing it all together. The cast is made up mostly of people in the voice acting industry, including an Emmy award winner and a two time BAFTA winner. They’re all pretty talented.
The second campaign has been good so far. I’m particularly happy to see Travis playing a character that isn’t constrained by low intelligence, something that kept him from even mentioning ideas in the previous campaign. His wife Laura is also amazing, and I’m fairly certain might be a cartoon character in real life.
If you haven’t done so, I’d watch the first campaign over time. The story arcs are pretty good, especially towards the end as Matt brings everything together and they face off against Vecna.
I fell in love with fantasy in fifth grade when someone handed me a copy of the Hobbit. I discovered D&D in the ninth grade just before the first edition books came out. I played D&D with a group of friends in their parents basement most Friday evenings all through high school. We first had to convince my mother that it wasn’t evil.
I tried several times to get my sons to play it but it never stuck. We played Magic the Gathering instead and had a lot of fun. It is a step above Pokemon. The kids have moved so I have boxes of cards in storage.
Fast forward a few years, my third son’s best friend’s stepfather played old school D&D. We became friends and had a lot of fun for a couple years. I took a group of adults and teenagers through a dungeon adventure I had written in my late teens. My church leaders told me to stop playing so my wife “educated” them on good versus evil intentions. I moved away and lost contact with the group.
I discovered D&D Online and had fun with that for several years. I also joined a group that played all sorts of RPGs and other games - Wild Wild West, Earthdawn, Game of Thrones, Touch of Evil (board game). It was fun but nothing stuck very long.
D&D is my original RPG and still my favorite.
I moved again and haven’t restarted RPGs. I still have all my books, modules and miniatures.