Last night I sat in a room with a government advisor on Broadband, a primary school teacher, a Clinical Lead in Speech and Language Therapy, a librarian, a youth worker, a railway engineer and a housewife (live in lover?) and we played Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). Yes that’s right Dungeons and Dragons; you know the game that they were playing just before they discovered ET in the movie. If that sounds a bit childish of us perhaps I can make it a bit more adult by saying we each drank about 2 bottles of wine each over the course of the evening. Or does that make us sound even more childish?
I have been playing D&D for over 25 years now through most of its incarnations from Chainmail and on to the current version 3.5. I started at school under the tutelage of a couple of guys in the year above me and before long was a regular in their ‘group’. Sessions would be held in one or another’s bedroom and were usually accompanied by the sounds of our latest record purchases and the odour of burning joss sticks. I was never really sure what the respective parents thought of it all, they were probably just happy we weren’t hanging out on street corners. Of course back then we didn’t just stick to D&D, we also had regular sessions where we played Traveller, Bushido, Top Secret and Call of Cthulhu amongst many others.
I never subscribed to the notion that Role Playing Games (RPG’s) caused me or anyone else any harm. These comments usually came from religious evangelists who just wanted all kids to be in bible class and couldn’t understand that playing a game that had the potential for the mention of Daemons and Devils was no more harmful than reading about them in the ‘good book’. RPG’s are even now still stigmatised as being somewhat deviant as are those who play them. If only our bosses knew eh? Well in the case of my boss he would jump at the chance of a game so I don’t know what that says about the psychiatric profile of the Clinical Trials Unit in Newcastle, hmmm.
Anyway please see the photographic evidence below and make your own minds up on just how deviant we all look.
As usual you’ll have to wait for the photos. I’ll try and get them on before the weekend.
I have been playing D&D for over 25 years now through most of its incarnations from Chainmail and on to the current version 3.5. I started at school under the tutelage of a couple of guys in the year above me and before long was a regular in their ‘group’. Sessions would be held in one or another’s bedroom and were usually accompanied by the sounds of our latest record purchases and the odour of burning joss sticks. I was never really sure what the respective parents thought of it all, they were probably just happy we weren’t hanging out on street corners. Of course back then we didn’t just stick to D&D, we also had regular sessions where we played Traveller, Bushido, Top Secret and Call of Cthulhu amongst many others.
I never subscribed to the notion that Role Playing Games (RPG’s) caused me or anyone else any harm. These comments usually came from religious evangelists who just wanted all kids to be in bible class and couldn’t understand that playing a game that had the potential for the mention of Daemons and Devils was no more harmful than reading about them in the ‘good book’. RPG’s are even now still stigmatised as being somewhat deviant as are those who play them. If only our bosses knew eh? Well in the case of my boss he would jump at the chance of a game so I don’t know what that says about the psychiatric profile of the Clinical Trials Unit in Newcastle, hmmm.
Anyway please see the photographic evidence below and make your own minds up on just how deviant we all look.
As usual you’ll have to wait for the photos. I’ll try and get them on before the weekend.
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