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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:48 pm
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:47 pm
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:34 am
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 5:08 pm
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 10:22 pm
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 12:03 pm
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:19 am
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 9:00 am
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:37 pm
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That's one of the reasons I'd feel dirty for playing! The names are just the beginning... My friends are always looking back on and discussing the 'adventures' they had last night when playing Dungeons and Dragons. And to be honest, it can sound quite pathetic... Like, they went on about how they through a paddle up and it hit a seagull and killed the enemy or some bizarre story like that. Or there's the time that they 'defeated a dragon', but then it fell on/crushed one of them. And then there's the absolute worst. They bring Dungeons and Dragons into reality... without even noticing! My friend brought up one day at school that some people in his household were watching Lord of the Rings and then Aragorn cut someone's head off or something, and then my friend said "Natural 20!" or something like that, which is apparently D&D talk for a very strong attack. And he said he wasn't even thinking about D&D at the time, him saying that just kind of happened. I'm happy at my level of 'nerdiness'; simply watching anime, spending as much time as possible on a computer, playing video games, and learning some scripting stuff for computers. But this whole D&D thing is like crossing the line, 3 times over...
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:05 pm
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Now see, I'm one of those who plays, and makes jokes about things being a natural 20 (one of those impossible actions, that only can happen to one of the heros) or if they fumble something simple, they rolled a one.
But, I'm worse than that. I've infected all my kids. My real kids and my adopted kids all play. And not just D&D! No, we do shadowrun, mech warriors, vampires, rifts, and more! We actually sit down and exercise our brains at least two nights per week. We have to come up with story lines, reason out our actions, learn cooperation, do complex maths, and otherwise keep our minds active.
And - we have fun doing it. The trick is to know there are three types of games out there:
1) Kill them all, and pray you don't die while you're at it. (slaughter games) 2) Kill them all and loot them like heck. (shopping games) 3) Problems will send you to everyone in the world. (story games)
So, which style will be your favorite? Only time will tell. But if your friends are truly trying to pull you in, they'll figure it out and find a hook to drag you into the game.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:27 pm
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:54 am
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:55 am
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:44 pm
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:19 pm
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