I Was A Teenage Half-Orc

National Review ^ | 10/15/04 | John J. Miller

[GreenLanternCorps]

A trip down memory lane for me and I lot of other Freepers out there...

[GreenLanternCorps]

DOH!

Thats: "a lot of other freepers out there."

Look twice, post once

[Atlantic Friend]

You and me both, man, even if I wasn't that big on D&D - probably a generational thing.

[conrad metcalf 42]

Have you seen Fable for X-BOX. It is reminiscent of the expansion called Ravenloft. Lots of fun. There are still players out there.

[Rocko]

Ping.

[Rebelbase]

HH ping

[risen_feenix]

Dork alert.

Of course, this dork still plays ;)

[WhiteGuy]

"Saturday is Worldwide D&D Game Day"

Actually, D&D gameday happens every Saturday during football season at Ohio State.

That's Right!

D & D = Drunk and Disorderly

GO BUCKS

[Lunatic Fringe]

Dungeons & Dragons was a great game, especially since it riled up parents.

[The Dude Abides]

Thanks for posting. My buddies and I still play about twice year in a campaign world that started in high school nearly 20 years ago. Our lives and adresses have all changed numerous times, but D&D, surprisingly, has remained a happy constant.

[HairOfTheDog]

I have always loved LoTR, but never played Dungeons and Dragons, nor really understood the linkage :~D

[tiamat]

Dungeons and Dragons PING!

[MondoQueen]

For many years the headquarters for D&D was in Lake Geneva, Wi, where I believe it originated. In fact, their building has only recently been rented out to someone else. And
for years they had a store front downtown where kids could go and play the games, and they always dressed appropriately. Haven't seen the store for a couple years, although I notice that one member of the original family who owned TSR is still in town selling real estate. Several people I knew went to Washington state when they moved. It was an interesting time.

[Pest]

I sold all of my D&D stuff during college for beer money. I still regret it some days.

[egarvue]

Memory lane? Nope, I'm an active player now, and yes, this latest edition is the best. I'm having good times with my long-time friends every week. I'll be in a nursing home playing D&D. Oh yeah, I'm a Geek with a capital "G" :-)

[eno_]

There are still players out there.

According to people I know in the business, D&D is a big moneymaker and growing.

[50sDad]

I suffered the ObiWan Syndrome...teenagers I taught to play in a well-ordered, fair, Evil-Always-Loses world went out and played Monty Haul and got power with no cost. Sigh. I would play again, if only I had The Old College Guys.

If anyone is interested in the same kind of game with a Christian base, visit my homepage for my version of DragonRaid, at (no www):

my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes

Paste, and hit the DragonRaid Button.

[Will_Zurmacht]

D&D was the best!

Imagine a game that actually encouraged young guys to read!
Some of my fondest memories of middle school years are of my friends in the basement playing D&D for hours and hours. We had snacks, games, and good honest friendships.
For sheer fun those times couldn't be beat.

It's wouldn't be much of a stretch to say D&D changed the direction my life. It encouraged my love of history and reading, kinda handy for a PhD candidate in History. D&D also encouraged my love of computers...I turned my beat up little Commodore-64 into a DM's tool box..hehe. Not a bad little game.

Eventually High School came and everybody decided we had to be "cool". Whatever that means.

Ta heck with cool, bring back the Elven Rangers!

[Nowhere Man]

I used to play D&D a lot when I was a kid but I tend to get into more realistic and science fiction RPG's. My favorite RPG's are "Twilight: 2000" and "The Morrow Project." Still though in my junior and high school years (1979-85), I did a lot of Gamma World where my gradeschool buddy (we still game to this day) and I played two people frozen in 1994 where we wake up to Gamma World. We basically became troubleshooters, researchers and mercinaries where we would try to repair technology and clear out bad guys/monsters. I once took a floor map of my high school and stocked it with bad guys, items, monsters and so on where we both had a good time clearing them out for loot, money, and recognition with our trusty tools at our side. He had his "Pig" (M-60 machine gun) and I had "Stacey" and "Boom-Boom" (my M-16A1 and M203 grenade launcher) at our disposal. B-) Sadly, I think if we were in school today, we'd earn a trip to the principal's office and beyond, but this was around 1983. I used the same plans when I ran D&D as well. Looking back though, I would have gladly bought "The Morrow Project" over "Gamma World," although there are some "deux ex machina" science fiction stuff, most of it ain't too much of a stretch to be believable where it is more hard science.

Maybe we ought to start a Freeper RPG section. BTW, we are going to start up a Morrow Project campaign in late 2004/2005 and most likely my NPC representing me will have "Stacey" and "Boom-Boom" again, hopefully my buddy will want to have "The Pig" again. B-)

It does provide a good escape, RPG's that is.

[AppyPappy]

A friend once told me while watching some people play D&D "Look. A whole bunch of guys allergic to [sex].".