Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Dungeons & Dragons, Part The Second

Although I'm bitter at being scooped by Ethan Gilsdorf, it behooves me to link to his piece on mid-life campaigners. He admits that nostalgia is a crucial motivating factor, but uncovers a few others that hadn't occurred to me, including:

"Gamers are married, making babies. They are encouraging their kids to discard their Xbox consoles in favor of the communal storytelling experience that is the cornerstone of D&D."

More anon.

2 comments:

DarkoV said...

Ha!
Yeah, WP, this Salon article also appeared in my morning mail and I thought of you immediately. The thing is...he was willing to get photographed in a NYC subway car dressed in mail...
...would you have gone so far to get a Salon publication?

Whisky Prajer said...

Well, lessee ... so long as the trip to NYC was covered, along with subway fare ... getting paid for the "story" of course ... oh, yeah. In a heartbeat.