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D&D started the same year I was born. So was Hustler magazine. I wonder if that means anything.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/10/16/dungeons.dragons.ap/index.html

D&D started the same year I was born. So was Hustler magazine. I wonder if that means anything.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/10/16/dungeons.dragons.ap/index.html

That geeks need to get off too?

D&D started the same year I was born. So was Hustler magazine. I wonder if that means anything.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/10/16/dungeons.dragons.ap/index.html

Two words:

Chainmail Bikinis. :D

Well if you play D&D and subscribe to Hustler, but don't have a girlfriend or wife then you are a sad sad person indeed. lol j/k.

Two words:

Chainmail Bikinis. :D

strangely popular in certain fantasy setting inspite of their unique combination of ineffectiveness and uncomfortability.

Well if you play D&D and subscribe to Hustler, but don't have a girlfriend or wife then you are a sad sad person indeed. lol j/k.
well better than being into cos play and subscribing to bukkake babes.

Heh, I play online D&D-like games, but I've never tabletopped. I would just feel awkward, face to face. I like to write, though, and I love alot of the D&D spawned themes and games out there, in particular www.armageddon.org is probably the most fascinating, heroin-like, Roleplay-ENFORCED game imaginable. If you like the setting of Dark Sun or even Dune, or if you just love roleplaying, then you need to play this game.

Aside from that, I think Hustler is $5.95 worth of shit. Who likes girls pissing? That's sleazy and definately NOT a turn-on.

I do have a girlfriend, so I'm 2/3... Am I still so sad?

Thanks for making me feel like a loser. Fuck...

Hustler = worthless

If I wanted to buy something like that (I wouldn't, it's a waste of money) I'd get Playboy.

(random, off topic blurb) I've actually had conversations with people who DO mostly read it for the articles, too :p


And while I've never tabletopped, I'd love to. Really, I think it would be totally awesome.

Hustler = worthless

If I wanted to buy something like that (I wouldn't, it's a waste of money) I'd get Playboy.

(random, off topic blurb) I've actually had conversations with people who DO mostly read it for the articles, too :p


And while I've never tabletopped, I'd love to. Really, I think it would be totally awesome.

I read playboy for the articles. I also like looking at naked women.

WooHoo! Win-win.

Wow. Original player here. Still have all the stuff.

Playboy is good but the women are edited. Read it myself. ;)

Hustler? Good for those that are dirty ;)

i still have the original little red and blue rule books with the three ring binder holes about as long as a good sized module.


back in the day we had three alignments, and that was plenty. none of this wishy washy hippy crap....

well better than being into cos play and subscribing to bukkake babes.

Nerdiness, thy name is me.

In my cleverness I did a documentary on gaming conventions earlier this year only to find out I was one of like eight. Ah well. I loved doing it throughout my adolesence and early twenties, I haven't played in years. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything. Happy anniversary D&D.

I started playing in 1977 and I have been playing on and off ever since.... wish I still had the original books, although I do have one on PDF...

I will say one thing though, the rules are a lot better written now than they used to be.... lot more background material, and a lot better minatures

tabletop is the best way to go, although if I had a better computer the new games like Neverwinter Nights look pretty good and you can interact with people online, which is almost as good as table top I think.

Lot easier to find a good DM thats for sure.

Never did much like Hustler though.... too raunchy for me and I also preferred Playboy.... did make the publisher rich though and he even ran for governor in California last year (thank god he didn't win, he is even too wacko for this state)

Played the D&D precursor....Chainmail....'76

Then spent the next 15 years playing the damn game and its spin offs....

Great fun

Two words:

Chainmail Bikinis. :D


Wisdom.

The Clown speaks the truth.

I don't care for D&D, simply because all of the boys I've known that played it were endowed with terrible social skills and a touch of the obsessive.

As for Playboy, while I don't care for Hugh Heffner, I do like reading the articles in the vintage issues, anyway, and I'm female. I remember one from 1969 I read which had an article by Timothy Leary in it. Interesting stuff. Yes, there is more to Playboy than skin pics. Not that they're all bad either, just I don't care for the sleazier stuff that gets shown in things like Hustler or Hot Over Fifties. I'd really rather not, thanks. (The letters to the editor are always worth a giggle too. ;) )

D&D started the same year I was born. So was Hustler magazine. I wonder if that means anything.
Well Gundam was having its 10th anniversary when I was born . . . I don't think that means much.

I've been playing AD&D since 86. As for nerdyness, last group was an Army Officer, 4 retire Army Pahrmacy Technitions (one now a CPA, One a pharmacist) and a simulator repair technition. I was the youngest player at 34. All of us are married.

I've been playing AD&D since 86. As for nerdyness, last group was an Army Officer, 4 retire Army Pahrmacy Technitions (one now a CPA, One a pharmacist) and a simulator repair technition. I was the youngest player at 34. All of us are married.

That does not make it any less nerdy. Not that I'm calling you a nerd, but it doesn't mean anything that a pharmacist and a government agent and a rabbi get together to play it. It just means that they have day jobs and spouses that interfere with their D&D time.

i play mtg with 2 ex navy nukes and 2 navy nuke (one is my self)

Last time I played AD+D was in college. We had a group of about eight that was DMd by a bartender from one of the most popular pubs in town.

I've tried to play online using Web RPG and Tharferr, but I have found nline players to be far too flakey. Too many no-shows and dropouts. I eventually gave up.

As far as Playboy goes - if you like airbrush paintings then I suppose it is great. Hustler is too raunchy and the layouts too brief. I guess I'm an old man because I don't like either. An occasional night at Hooters and once or twice a year at the strip club does me just fine...

I don't like the theory of being too attached to numbers like D&D can become. It's more fun if the DM hacks the rules up to remove all the unnecessary fiddly rules and you can go on with epic monster slaying bloodbaths and trying to make the mayor of the local town marry his daughter off to your evil mage character.

I remember original D&D. I didn't manage to keep my original set but I do have some of the 1979 set of books, including one that was later withdrawn from publication. No, this isn't what makes me an oddball. That comes from being one of the few *female* players who play because we want to, and not just because our boyfriends play. In fact, I belong to one of the oddest groups I know of: twelve people, including five women. The youngest player is 23; the oldest is over 50. This group has been playing on a weekly basis, with some additions and subtractions, for almost 25 years. Two of the group's active characters are from that original startup campaign.

And no, I don't read/buy Hustler, Playboy, or anything like them.

I have only played since version 3.0 came out, but I think it is great fun. Our DM (aka my boyfriend) got a copy of "Temple of Elemental Evil" that is mostly updated to 3.5 and we're playing through that. Gary Gygax was one crazy guy, lemme tell you. =)

who owns D&D these days? is it still owned by that little company out of lake geneva wisconsin or was it bought up by one of the big boys?

who owns D&D these days? is it still owned by that little company out of lake geneva wisconsin or was it bought up by one of the big boys?

Wizards of the Coast (the same guys who make Magic: The Gathering) bought it out a while ago. Probably a good thing too, since it was getting run into the ground before that.

Oh, the wonders of gaming...

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I like playing DnD based games like NWN. I'm too impatient to do PnP. Besides, computer games have special effects! :)

I just kicked off a new campaign yesterday. I personally prefer PnP, and find Computer and Post-by-Post gaming to be a bit off myself.

I like the tactile feeling of the dice in my hand better then having a computer randomly generate my numbers for me.

I just kicked off a new campaign yesterday. I personally prefer PnP, and find Computer and Post-by-Post gaming to be a bit off myself.

I like the tactile feeling of the dice in my hand better then having a computer randomly generate my numbers for me.

And of course the 'ah bugger, I don't think these numbers. Who votes we use bigger ones?'

strangely popular in certain fantasy setting inspite of their unique combination of ineffectiveness and uncomfortability.
The Azure Bonds rationale - that magic armour is made by aging male wizards - is the best reason I've heard for chain mail bikinis.
The close relative - the chain mail tanktop - actually makes sense in a world that has vampires. A vamp only need to protect her heart (and neck, so add a torc) so going skimpy is lighter, distracts male opponents, and means more bare flesh available to energy drain.

Hmm, nerdiness. I'm a Selfconfessed nerd, started roleplaying in 1979. It's actually not a bad way to acquire social skills, especially if you move into rules-lite, multiform, life action and freeform games. This isn't obvious when you first go to these games, as you see how bad some players social skills are - but it's pleasant to watch people grow over a year or two.
And a freeform (at least in OZ) means girls in corsets! Much better than magazines!

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frighteningly accurate and unbelievably funny stuff.... I am now a fan of that comic.....if you have been to a con, or a game store that hosts gaming, you have met all of these people (including the girls amusingly enough)....

I've been playing AD&D since 86. As for nerdyness, last group was an Army Officer, 4 retire Army Pahrmacy Technitions (one now a CPA, One a pharmacist) and a simulator repair technition. I was the youngest player at 34. All of us are married.


know what you mean... I play with a mechanic, social worker, myself (another social worker), a small business owner (not a game store) and a roofer.... we play to get away from our wives and children and believe me, after a week of social work, you would want to kill something fictional too

we are mostly in our 30s and 40s

See, the reason I want to table top is because I'm tired of the computer generated special affects.

I'm tired of casting a spell and going "oooooh, pretty."

I wanna be able to picture it in my mind and go "Holy shit! Whoh!"

Eh, might just be an overactive imagination :p.




That, and on the computer...half of everything is worthless. half the spells? Pfh. In fact, more then that-there's like....TWO you'll need.

I played for along time but then the people I played it with got to serious. Luckily I found “Paranoia” and that helped make it fun again for a while. I just don’t have time in my life now but since it’s 30 years I might get a D&D party going this Halloween.

The fundamental Differences between Compudungeons and PnP are:

CPU: *cast fireball on the imp* ))Sprite with weak animations flies to imp, weak explosion sprite, imp goes through repetitive dying motion((

Tabletop: *Casts fireball on the imp* ))A White hot bolt of energy shoots out of your finger, it streaks across the room towards the imp, which grows terrified seeing it's impending doom flying at it. The bolt hits it, and a massive sphere of fire spreads out across the room, the imp remains, burning. He staggers towards you before collapsing, ablaze, on the ground.((

I rip off the orcs head an spinal column and use them as a makeshift flail

You know those 'Beer & Pretzel' games that you'd play for a quicky between games or whatnot? Like Wiz War and Nuke War and the like?

If you're like me you don't play those anymore because of hassle and no one around you to play-but I found this place (http://gametableonline.com/) to play those games. It's pretty cool. It's the closest I get to geeking out (at least in this fashion) these days.

I played for along time but then the people I played it with got to serious. Luckily I found “Paranoia” and that helped make it fun again for a while. I just don’t have time in my life now but since it’s 30 years I might get a D&D party going this Halloween.

The Computer is your Friend... why? Because it told you so....

such a silly game, but fun.... the group I played with never completed a scenario though, as we killed each other off way to soon

its also a lot more fun to pick up a bunch of dice and throw them yourself in tabletop D & D.... very satisfying in its own way

The Computer is your Friend... why? Because it told you so....

such a silly game, but fun.... the group I played with never completed a scenario though, as we killed each other off way to soon
I dig Paranoia in theory. I've never actually played it, but the rule book was hilarious.