Sad news if you ever played D&D

[arranandy]

I've just realised that D&D is Dungeons and Dragons

I'll get my coat.....

 

[hubgearfreak]

Yeah, all the cute girls hang out in potholes.

well, they looked OK in the dark

 

[Smokin Joe]

D&D players always seem like the type who one day walk into a school or supermarket with an AK47 and kill a couple of dozen people before commiting suicide.

 

[Dave5N]

SOme of the people I was a student with were committed gamers.

Interestingly, not one had a girlfriend.

(Bar one, but bloody hell, you wouldn't've!)

 

[red_tom]

We didn't need them. We had stuff like this.

 

[papercorn2000]

D&D players always seem like the type who one day walk into a school or supermarket with an AK47 and kill a couple of dozen people before commiting suicide.

Do you know how difficult it is to get an AK47 in Lanarkshire - when you are 16? A pointed stick really doesn't have the same dramatic effect...

 

[red_tom]

Unless it's the fabled vorpal pointy stick.

 

[tdr1nka]

If I remember we were still able to smoke and drink beer while playing D&D and even some girls played it too!
I think they were girls? Girls smell nice and have lumps in their jumpers don't they?

 

[Fnaar]

We didn't need them. We had stuff like this.

Isn't that from the Met Police training manual?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

D&D players always seem like the type who one day walk into a school or supermarket with an AK47 and kill a couple of dozen people before commiting suicide.

If you're implying that there is some kind of causal link between playing Role-Playing Games and spree killing, you'd be wrong, whatever the Daily Mail types used to think. Fantasies of all kinds attract people for different reasons - some just are very intelligent with rather more imagination than the average joe, but a few are genuinely troubled and looking for an escape, so you'd not be wrong that RPGs can attract slightly damaged people.

I knew one person like this, who ended up flipping, believing he had special powers and trying to stab a taxi driver. However his Dad used to beat the crap out of him on a regular basis long before he started playing games and we all recognised him as odd. Everyone else I knew who played in that group has turned out entirely 'normal' - bankers, academics, a games designer...

 

[trustysteed]

sheesh, how to turn a funny mickey-taking thread into something serious, FM...

no need for that on a friday afternoon.

 

[red_tom]

Yeah, don't make me get my 10 foot pole out.

 

[papercorn2000]

Listen Monkey, it's not TOO hard getting an AK47 when you know how. Ever heard of people going mental in university departments? It can be arranged (although I wouldn't be committing suicide, I'd rely on my Cloak of Invisibility)

 

[tdr1nka]

Listen Monkey, it's not TOO hard getting an AK47 when you know how. Ever heard of people going mental in university departments? It can be arranged (although I wouldn't be committing suicide, I'd rely on my Cloak of Invisibility)

Are you Harry Potter or what?

 

[Smokin Joe]

And another thing, I bet if you went on a clubrun with a load of D&Ders they'd all be riding steel frames built by some obscure shop with a name like Sidebottom who went out of business in 1957. And they'd lure you into a secluded wood and break your carbon frame into pieces and bludgen you to death with a Chater-Lee chainset.

Bankers and academics my arse, they just sit in their bedrooms all day fantasizing about suicide and sending their mum's out to buy them McDonalds.

I know, I've done a research paper on this.