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Table top role-playing was never dead. It's just hip right now for some reason like anything "geek", since "geeks" now have money brands and the media try to ca
by nostalgeek 8y ago
Table top role-playing was never dead. It's just hip right now for some reason like anything "geek", since "geeks" now have money brands and the media try to cater to their tastes, the same media who painted them as "idiots with a useless hobby" for 30 years.
- ekianjo 8y agoidiots? that would have been gentle. Most media painted geeks as antisocial and having serious mental issues.
- ourmandave 8y agoYes, welcome to 2018, where now we can judge you on a spectrum.
- jdonaldson 8y agoAntisocial? The media tried to link D&D to satanic murders for years.
- ekianjo 8y agoYeah, before moving to video games as the new culprit.
- jrs95 8y agoSome amount of this probably has to do with D&D 5e actually being good, too. 4e probably had the total number of players going down instead of up.
- JKCalhoun 8y agoNot sure it's always about money and media. Maybe instead popular video games (AKA, 1st person shooters) are getting a little ... repetitive?
- jonhendry18 8y agoI think it's more about the generation who were kids in the 1st edition days getting to the point in their careers where they have influence and a platform. So you get Stephen Colbert making D&D references, and Dan Harmon writing it into Community, Vin Diesel talking about getting Judi Dench to play while making a film, etc. And for every high-profile person like Colbert or Harmon there are probably a few people on their writing staff with a similar gaming background.