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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 7:23AM
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Honestly, getting back to the controversial "Devil Worship" stereotype will probably only draw in more people to give D&D a try.
Hearing hardcore stories about the game where people's minds got messed up and they started thinking they were their character only made it sound more intense and awesome.
Call me elitist, but I want to keep all those self-proclaimed counter-culture non-conformist attention-grabbing whiners the hell out of my game. If someone's mind got messed up over a game, I have no respect for them. If they were bsing about it for attention, then I not only have no respect for them, but actively detest them.
They think they're cool and tough and rebellious, and they might be, if they didn't still resort to defining themselves by other peopels' rules. All they did is switch the context from positive to negative. /Rantdisengage. I'm all for D&D not trying to maintain any kind of image at all beyond it being a quality and enjoyable product.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 7:24AM
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Honestly, getting back to the controversial "Devil Worship" stereotype will probably only draw in more people to give D&D a try.
Hearing hardcore stories about the game where people's minds got messed up and they started thinking they were their character only made it sound more intense and awesome.
If Disney ends up buying Hasbro, maybe they can hire Tom Hanks to be the spokesperson for D&D.
"Hi, I'm Tom Hanks, you may remember me from the 1980s classic Mazes and Monsters. I have been a Dungeons and Dragons fan ever since, and if there is one thing I love about the game, its how it screws up your head and makes you want to dress up and wander around looking for trouble with your friends. So if you thirst for battle and want to see if you have what it takes, try the new Dungeons and Dragons - Its just like you remember it."
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 7:25AM
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Call me elitist, but I want to keep all those self-proclaimed counter-culture non-conformist attention-grabbing whiners the hell out of my game.
Role Playing Hipsters?
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 7:31AM
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Call me elitist, but I want to keep all those self-proclaimed counter-culture non-conformist attention-grabbing whiners the hell out of my game.
Role Playing Hipsters?
I'm more concenered about people who try to type-cast themselves as rebels and non-conformists. Generally, people are like that because they actually do care about what other people think. They just try and make themselves out to be better than other people because according to them, they care about what the "right" people think. /Spit. But yeah, I would like to keep hipsters out too. Unless those are in fact what you mean by hipsters. In which case yeah, they can all die in Ashardalon's fire breath.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 7:33AM
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 If Disney ends up buying Hasbro, maybe they can hire Tom Hanks to be the spokesperson for D&D.
"Hi, I'm Tom Hanks, you may remember me from the 1980s classic Mazes and Monsters. I have been a Dungeons and Dragons fan ever since, and if there is one thing I love about the game, its how it screws up your head and makes you want to dress up and wander around looking for trouble with your friends. So if you thirst for battle and want to see if you have what it takes, try the new Dungeons and Dragons - Its just like you remember it."
That would be awesome!
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 7:36AM
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I didn't die a little inside. I died a lot inside. Given that I long since had to start sustaining myself of the souls of others (Read: Fast Food) seeing that picture was costly indeed.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 7:43AM
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I didn't die a little inside. I died a lot inside. Given that I long since had to start sustaining myself of the souls of others (Read: Fast Food) seeing that picture was costly indeed.
What Hanks doesn't warm your heart, are you sure your not a robot?
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 8:03AM
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I'm more concenered about people who try to type-cast themselves as rebels and non-conformists. Generally, people are like that because they actually do care about what other people think. They just try and make themselves out to be better than other people because according to them, they care about what the "right" people think. /Spit. But yeah, I would like to keep hipsters out too. Unless those are in fact what you mean by hipsters. In which case yeah, they can all die in Ashardalon's fire breath.
I mean both people, yes.
I enjoy Tom Hanks work a lot, but I do not know if I can EVER forgive him for Mazes & Monsters.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 8:05AM
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I didn't die a little inside. I died a lot inside. Given that I long since had to start sustaining myself of the souls of others (Read: Fast Food) seeing that picture was costly indeed.
What Hanks doesn't warm your heart, are you sure your not a robot?
Robots don't spit up bile, at least as far as I know.
@prowlersvn: Yeah, I uh, see what you mean.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 15, 2012 - 10:23AM
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Do I want divine classes removed, no.
That said, in 30+ years of D&D if your class didn't require a religion/deity, it was almost always left blank.
If it did, it was filled in because it was required, and then rarely (if ever) referenced again.
If the book said "you acquire your powers from a divine source" and nothing more, I'd never miss it.
Browncoats Unite...
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