Then And Now: RPGs, We’ve Come A Long Way
Friday 17 July 2009 @ 10:47 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 11 CommentsIt used to be that RPGs were exclusively for those at the fringes of society, the geeks, the outcasts. The terminally awkward. Those who would end up living on their parent’s basement forever or becoming overachieving lawyers, engineers and silicon valley tycoons.
We’ve come a long way, my friends. A long way.
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Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
David 'KidKobun' Bruno
Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
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… That has been a long long jump. Walk. Way, however you can tell it. From geeks to popstars adverting an RPG, though, not in the same classical way of yore, but well, we can not argue too much on the role play part.
I’ll take my hooded robe and D&D over WoW anyday. (Note: I have none of the above mentioned)
Still love that Night Elf Mohawk.
Well, not just RPGs but gaming in general. It was for the nerds and anyone who played video games a lot was looked down upon but now that it’s more mainstream people accept it and actually get into it.
Although gaming is more recent so it kinda matured along with the gamers. It had a toy stigma more than a nerd stigma.
How insulting, to compare D&D to WoW. Real tabletop role-playing is still for the dorks and nerds, trust me.
I know it is, I’ve played a couple of campaigns in my time. Still, people are now acceptant of playing in a fantasy world. The change is there.
yah… but MMO’s tend to tire me soon enough… the grinding get on my nerves and bores me quickly…
i’ve been player and GM of tabletop campaigns, it’d be the equivalent of throwing a thousand bead tokens and saying…
“they’re all orks… except this big red one.. this is a dragon… I’ll be in the other room watching movies.. let me know when yer done killing them so i can describe another setting and throw in a thousand more”
I played tabletop RpG’s before. That does NOT make me necesarily a “dork” or “nerd”, alas, i hope a “nerd” or “dork” is not someone educated or very dedicated to a hobby they like, not to mention that they put a lot of time and effort on it.
Well actually, a nerd can often mean what you just defined: A person who is educated/very dedicated to a hobby. Therefore you could call one who is dedicated to sports a “sports nerd” but that wouldn’t sound right so you either call them athletic or a jock. Same goes for music, movies or anything.
worry not friend… while a nerd or geek or dork migt be well versed on the subject of interest.. its not necessarily to a delicate extent, but close enough.
tabletop RPG’s does not a geek make xD
we’re plenty geeky for more than one reason, that i know xD
yer one of us buddy… and that isn’t really a bad thing o.-