Does D&D Online count?
Used to play BattleTech back in the day. Never got into D&D.
I think that was one of my Dad's fears, that BattleTech was a 'gateway game' to D&D which would lead to Satan worship.
I think that was one of my Dad's fears, that BattleTech was a 'gateway game' to D&D which would lead to Satan worship.
It's now called World of Warcraft - but yes.
+1 but I was in early junior high (like 1993-ish). Too many weird people out of touch with reality playing it.
Also spoiled me from computer games. I played Counterstrike, Quake III, Unreal Tournament for a while my first two years of college... too many people waaayy too into them.
We have a game going right now, actually. We play roughly once or twice a month, depending on who has the on-call phone from work.
Four of the six of us are shooters as well. One guy hunts fairly regularly. Another is an amateur photographer who is close to turning pro. Three of us are IT guys. Myself and our DM support airports world wide. In our spare time we also wrench on our Jeeps and drink beer. My wife is one of the players; she's a teacher. The other gal is an aspiring pastry chef.
As someone mentioned, the stigma of the 'nerds only' players isn't the case anymore, and hasn't been for several decades. Mind you, there are plenty of people that bring that cliché to life, but it isn't the majority.
Tabletop is nothing more than multiple person story telling with a bit of chance thrown in to mix things up.
Cheers sir, I haven't played Battletech in decades, but it was always damned fun.
Geeks unite
Yes sir we used to rotate had a group got together weekly when I was in Barstow CA. One was a electronics engineer at goldstone tracking station, an army Colonel and LT from the EOD unit and a Captain who was a tanker, one guy was a retired navy chief, the guy who managed the video arcade at the mall who was crippled and a couple of other in and out players from the military rotated in and out.
We would D&D for a while finish a campaign then play a week or two of one nighters like mech warriors, car wars or wooden ships and iron men then back onto a long campaign of D&D, ICE's middle earth, travellers, or Space opera, wash rinse and repeat.
We played Car Wars, Marvel Superheroes, and Mech Warriors occasionaly. But mostly we played Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. That was the Best! I've still got a bankers box full of all the "1st Edition" rule books and a lot of the 2nd Editions also. I still remember most of the rules 20 years later! Ironically, if I'd used that brainpower on school instead of gaming......
Never played it, did use to play battleship long ago.
Had to bring this back up, after reading an article about the recent season premiere of "Family Guy." One of the character's voices is provided by Mila Kunis:
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Turns out, this lovely young lady is a WoW player. So I have to admit, I was wrong... and delightfully so
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Turns out, this lovely young lady is a WoW player. So I have to admit, I was wrong... and delightfully so
Had to bring this back up, after reading an article about the recent season premiere of "Family Guy." One of the character's voices is provided by Mila Kunis:
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Turns out, this lovely young lady is a WoW player. So I have to admit, I was wrong... and delightfully so
Curt Schilling, a former Major League pitcher, was/is an avid gamer and played Everquest for years while playing baseball. He's since moved on to EQ2, and now WoW. He's also started Green Monster Games (later renamed to 38 Studios), and is working on developing an MMO with Todd MacFarlane and R.A. Salvatore.
Geeks are the new 'trend' of people. The 50s had rebel bikers, the 60s had hippies, the 70s had disco dancers, the 80s had wall street types, the 90s had grunge and yuppies... these days, it's all about geek power.
