Once geeky now cool with SIP

wannabe

wannabe

"Insignificant Other"
So, I caught up with some old college buddies last night. During our conversation, it came out that one of the guys started playing Dungeons and Dragons with his teen daughters and her friends. He is having a great time being the dungeon master for his kids. The kids are apparently really enjoying it. I was surprised to hear that it managed to make a resurgence. I guess that it made sense. All the geeky guys I knew growing up became engineers and had kids. It was only natural that their kids would eventually rediscover some stuff that their parents used to enjoy.

Have any of you parents found any of your old activities that were thought of as geeky are now becoming cool with your kids?

As for my buddy’s all-girl D&D group, he says that the girls are playing the game in a very different way. When he was a kid, he and his buddies wanted to blow through levels and kill everything in sight. In his daughter’s group, the girls spend a lot of time chatting with any townsfolk that they meet in the game with no real motivation to complete levels. Their fun is apparently in trying to throw curveballs at the dungeon master. :teeth
 
Abacinator

Abacinator

Unholy Blasphemies
My daughter and her school friends have a D&D group that they've been running via Zoom. They're all sharp, good-natured kids :)
 
Eldritch

Eldritch

is insensitive
Abacinator said:
I certainly won't be funding that cash vacuum :laughing
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It is one of the cheapest hobbies you can take up. A couple of rule books, some dice, and the rest is just sitting around bullshitting with a group of friends. Literally thousands of hours of entertainment with no additional cost.
 
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Abacinator

Abacinator

Unholy Blasphemies
Eldritch said:
It is one of the cheapest hobbies you can take up. A couple of rule books, some dice, and the rest is just sitting around bullshitting with a group of friends. Literally thousands of hours of entertainment with no additional cost.
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I was referring to Magic: The Gathering
 
cheez

cheez

Master Of The Darkside
I host a D&D session with a bunch of friends on Friday nights, I DM it. Same story- played 25 years ago in high school, lost interest, rediscovered a couple of years back, refocused on it with the Covids.

Roll20 and DNDBeyond are both very useful for online play, as is Discord.
 
Butch

Butch

poseur
Staff member
Cool thing, yet disturbing perhaps. Go outside and play?

Nah, full disclosure, I prolly played “Risk”, but I know Randy (neighbor) and I played a lot of “Panzer Blitz” back in the day. It was a great board game of prolly the same stuff as today.

Must look up.
 
wannabe

wannabe

"Insignificant Other"
Butch said:
Cool thing, yet disturbing perhaps. Go outside and play?

Nah, full disclosure, I prolly played “Risk”, but I know Randy (neighbor) and I played a lot of “Panzer Blitz” back in the day. It was a great board game of prolly the same stuff as today.

Must look up.
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Is Panzer Blitz a separate game or is it a different set of rules when playing Risk?
 
ScarySpikes

ScarySpikes

tastes like burning
DnD is pretty fun and unless you dig into the money pits of the physical map building parts and miniatures and all of that, a very inexpensive hobby. Plus you can play the game a lot of different ways depending on what players want out of it. (all dungeon crawling vs. more social stuff).

It fills the same exact slot as traditional board game nights or trivia nights that a lot of people have.

I'm glad it's seen a resurgence and the satanic panic stigma is mostly forgotten.
 
cfives

cfives

Well-known member
ScarySpikes said:
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I'm glad it's seen a resurgence and the satanic panic stigma is mostly forgotten.
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Good thing you are here to remind us, I almost forgot about it, given the positive spin on D&D in the original post!
 
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UDRider

UDRider

FLCL?
Lol. What was that vid of animated characters playing D&D and stern voice talking about satanic element?

Thankfully didn't get into MTG. Couldn't afford it. Ha ha.
Was playing with my friends cards. :D
I think he still has boxes full of them. With some pretty rare ones. Probably worth a bunch.
 
wazzuFreddo

wazzuFreddo

WuTang is 4 the children
My sister and her friends have been playing DnD since high school in the late 90s. I never got into it but it does sound fun.
 
Eldritch

Eldritch

is insensitive
Abacinator said:
I was referring to Magic: The Gathering
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Oh, dear god. I hear it isn't bad if you only play sealed deck tournaments. I played Magic in like '93 when it first came out, but once guys started showing up with with cards in Binders talking about Value, I was OUT.
 
cheez

cheez

Master Of The Darkside
Eldritch said:
Oh, dear god. I hear it isn't bad if you only play sealed deck tournaments. I played Magic in like '93 when it first came out, but once guys started showing up with with cards in Binders talking about Value, I was OUT.
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When I moved to Texas in 1998, I thought I'd sell my crates of records to fund the trip. I got $500 total for six large milk crates of rare vinyl. I took my binders of Beta and Ice Age cards to the game shop and got over $1000 for the cards.

Looking at their values today, they'd be worth more than $40k.

:wow :rofl :gsxrgrl
 
aminalmutha

aminalmutha

Well-known member
I played D&D once probably in 1990 or so. I was so bored, I left on my bike and did some exploring down by the bay.
 
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