[Incorrigible]

I was in engineering college in the mid 80’s and was friendly with the D&D players in my dorm but I still thought of them as somewhat nerdy. I was an EE/CS major with a Math minor so you had to be pretty nerdy if I thought you were a nerd!

None-the-less, I’m addicted to first person shooter games from Wolfenstein to Halo 3 and I have not doubt there was plenty of input from pizza and Mountain Dew guzzling D&D players in those games.

[Mr. Silverback]

None-the-less, I’m addicted to first person shooter games from Wolfenstein to Halo 3 and I have not doubt there was plenty of input from pizza and Mountain Dew guzzling D&D players in those games.

I don't play D&D anymore, but I'm betting you're right, and I LOVE Halo.

Last year my 8 year old son lured me to him and shot me in the head with a rocket launcher. I was so proud! Then I respawned and took him out with the 40mm pistol at long range. Being a dad is fun.

[qam1]

Never played the game - liked the cartoon when I was younger, though I just saw a few episodes late at night recently (on Cartoon Network?) and I now realize that it was pretty cheesy (What's up with the gay unicorn?)

But one D&D knock off I do still like

[MikeD]

None-the-less, I’m addicted to first person shooter games from Wolfenstein to Halo 3 and I have not doubt there was plenty of input from pizza and Mountain Dew guzzling D&D players in those games.

John Romero (co-creator of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, etc.) ran a D&D game throughout his time at id with John Carmack and others. They knew his time at id was short when he killed off everyone's character while DM-ing a gaming session.