The Truth about D&D!

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What's the Deal With Dungeons and Dragons by Cecil Adams

[Alhadis]

(laughs) Hey, that's amusing!:lol:

What site was that taken from, anyway? The article only seemed more-or-less serious. ^_^

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What site was that taken from, anyway?

www.straightdope.com

Game On,
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[Alhadis]

Righto. Thanks for that. ^_^

(Whoa... that's one, weird site.. )

[Ramnza]

Wooh...
I love these two parts

I have some reservations about bestowing further publicity on this demented pastime, but a devotion to the noble principles of journalism demands that the facts be exposed, come what may.

and better yet

To play D&D you need at least two acolytes, who play under the guidance of a vaguely Mansonesque personage called the Dungeon Master (DM).

By means of various murky protocols involving the use of charts and dice, each player establishes the persona of the "character" he or she will manipulate in the game, who typically ends up (if male) being an antisocial cutthroat of some sort, or (if female) possessed of large, grapefruit-like breasts.

That's so cool.

[Obleo]

I've been reading the straight dope for a while. Cecil Adams is funny, and actually quite smart. It's a good time waster, and you can learn useless, trivial facts, such as how they put the "m's" on M&M's.

[Essence]

Grapefruit-like? Isn't that a rather...bad thing? I know I prefer my breasts more like...I don't know, marshmallows, or perhaps hot water bottles. But grapefruit?

Maybe if they were really ripe...

[Username17]

You just don't eat enough grapefruit.

-Username17

[The_Hanged_Man]

Or maybe too much grapefruit.

[Count Arioch the 28th]

Nice, warm, soft Grapefruit is indeed a wonderful thing.