[Timber Rattler]

Think about it...all of today's RPG's and online games would probably not exist if D&D had never existed.

[JRandomFreeper]

In before people that don't know anything about it denounce it as evil.... maybe.

/johnny

[mdittmar]

40 years,time flies.

[max americana]

“You want me to “play” a dwarf fighter named Frowndorf?”

Wasn’t this Bill Clinton’s line to lewinsky?

[HangnJudge]

Many a long weekend, surrounded by pizza, cokes, and chips
Playing D&D

Wealth, status, power
Lots of 20 sided dice rolling

[Jonty30]

It can be a real,fun game when led by a DM who can tell a good story.

[Telepathic Intruder]

If not for D&D I wouldn’t know how to roll a 3-sided die.

[Political Junkie Too]

Magic Realm was more to my liking.

-PJ

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Meh, never played it. The lack of order in it annoys me, and it seems to rely a great deal on having a good "dungeon master."

No, give me a third Reich, risk, battlegrounds...And I'm sure I'll be called a heretic, but I prefer to do it on the computer. It can be fun sometimes, but calculating modifiers and results wears you down and slows the game down -- let the 'puter handle all that stuff. Something is lost, but it makes it easier.

[sphinx]

I grew up with chess, poker, penny a point hearts, and board wargames. Never played D&D. The fantasy gamers took off in strange directions, while historical gamers pressed deeper into historical detail, to the point that the games became hard-core history, and practically unplayable.

I've not punched out counters for a good many years, but I still have to shake my head at a D&D review that uses Clue, Risk, Monopoly, and Stratego as his referents. There are a lot of great games out there.

[no-s]

all of today's RPG's and online games would probably not exist if D&D had never existed.

I remember that era well, we were constantly experimenting and designing new games of all types. There was an explosion of RPG. But the role-playing-game theme as a formal game probably originated in strategic war-gaming millennia prior, where players would take on the role of the strategic participants, eg generals commanding armies. There was plenty of role-playing going on in modern board games (eg Diplomacy, Monopoly), even networked computer gaming (e.g Empire '73, Netrek) predating D&D.

IF D&D wasn't invented, something else would have taken it's place.

[Slings and Arrows]

I suspect that you would enjoy the webcomic “Darths & Droids.” The premise is that all the Star Wars movies were actually a series of RPG campaigns. Contains the universe’s only unironic use of the phrase “Jar Jar, you’re a genius!”

First strip: http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html

[2ndDivisionVet]

My late stepson was really into Magic the Gathering, which seems like an offshoot of D&D.

[VanDeKoik]

Was never into this. I tended to gravitate more towards the military strategy Avalon Hill games.

And some of the guys tended to be real d*cks with the “rules”.

[tcrlaf]

I still remember as a young zoomie, being called in and told my security clearance was being pulled while “some kind of Weird D+D Cult” I formerly belonged to was investigated.

[Young Werther]

Amy reacted to the Love Potion in Sheldon's BEDROOM!

[Crim]

Still have all my stuff in several totes in the garage...

I got into painting game figures and the table top war gaming aspect...

Also played the hell out of “Starfleet battles”....

Good times...

[techcor]

This post makes me feel (rolls D100)... nostalgic.

[EEGator]

[Colonel_Flagg]

Played 2E back in the day and even did some DM work. Played other RPGs like Shadowrun too.

But my heart still lies with my old AH games — Diplomacy, Panzer Leader and my favorite of all, Advanced Squad Leader.

[bolobaby]

I’m not embarrassed to say I still play every Wednesday night. (Well, Pathfinder actually, because 4th edition suX0rz.)

I’m a highly professionally, well-paid executive. I don’t care. I still enjoy D&D. It’s awesome.