A topic I started on the EFU irc channel is what prompted this post so.....
I have been part of this community for perhaps 3 years.
I was a newb to the D&D way of playing. I got NWN1 free from a manager of mine and hack-n-slashed my way through the original campaign blissfully ignorant of the painstaking details the game revealed about the pen-and-paper game that was formed in the late 70's
Well here I am, saying thank you to not only the DM staff, but the player base that's kept me here and tolerated my endless, and often mindless, questions about this and that.
My respect for the fantasy genre and the realm of D&D in general has exploded exponentially in a positive manner.
While we all may be considered 'dorks' or whatever to the rest of the planet, I have no issue speaking of this group/server/realm with other people I meet.
So, the short version, thanks for welcoming a total idiot to the community and [raises a tankard of Rak's finest] heres to many more years of retarded asinine questions about D&D mechanics!
DjSpectre
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You're welcome.. I think...
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Quote from: djspectre;114209While we all may be considered 'dorks' or whatever to the rest of the planet, I have no issue speaking of this group/server/realm with other people I meet.
Actually, that was 20 years ago, when D&D and the like was new, and were considered games played by weird people, associated with hard rock and the like.
My generation has reached adulthood, and with this, this kind of gaming has passed into common games. You'd be surprised how many people know the 'kind of game' we play, even girls.
As an example, the day G. Gyxax died, it was on the 8'o clock news in France, with a whole theme about rpgs..
The 'dorks' today are the computers addicts. Damn, i'm a dork again!
R.I.P. Gary. He's the great DM in the sky now...
*hugs Spectre* I'm in the same boat man.
Rock on DJ.
*sniffs* I was six, Mr. Gygax and another fella were playing Chainmail with figurines right in front of me. Been a "Geek,Dork,Nerd" ever since, though still complete newb after three years on the server when it comes to mechanics. Stand loud, stand proud DJ! May your geekdom last an eternity!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! <3 for the Dj
Happy 3rd anvisersary in the community DJ!
It is as one of the greatest minds in history has said.
"You in the jungle, baby."
Glad to be a part of y'life.
"You in the jungle, baby."
And isn't it immediately followed by the line...
"You gonna DIE!"
?
You guys are all a bunch of Dorks.
You must embrace your inner dork, and be happy. :)
*stabs Core*
Core is actually right, but what he did do was make a realm that was easily accessible and interesting to the masses, and that did promote a lot in the rpg scene.
Myself, I learned the nerdy ways at age 9 when I rolled up a Champions character. IMO, the tabletop and interactive gaming was a great promoter of imagination, and imaginative problem solving. These things are non-existant in the computer RPG setting, and it's really too bad. Imagination is the source of innovation. Those who lack it are constrainted by what they percieve, and that is their sad reality.
Keep on keeping it real DJ, have fun. It's what's important.
'Dorks.'
Thanks everyone, but this really wasn't about my third year anniversary (which isn't until april or may of this year), but more a thanks FROM ME TO YOU all.
Nothing is more satisfying than watching the fine cyber-acting of players as they try their best to create a colorful world to interact with.
And I agree that creative thinking isn't really emphasized as much as it used to be, and certainly not with computer games.
I started playing D&D as a teen when I quite literally found the original box set and the immortal box set when walking along the train tracks near my family's cabin. 20 years and a chest full of books later I now play EfU:A almost exclusively.
Rock on DJ, we joined at almost the same time. And rock on my fellow nerds-in-arms.