Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon Rant
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 by Poor KnightWell here we go with another new face at Rust Monster. We’ve slimmed down a lot here and hope to add some more focus to the site.
To kick it off I thought I’d drudge up one of my favorite rants. It’s something I came across several years ago and never caught the original author. If you happen to know please clue me in - I’d like to give credit where credit’s due.
Based on the creations of Gary Gygax and the various myths from which he liberally borrowed, Dungeons and Dragons is one of the memories that ’80s kids all have that provides a cultural common ground for the geeks and everyone else. For those who aren’t aware of what Dungeons and Dragons is, it’s a role-playing game in a fantasy setting. Players create characters represented by statistics and other characteristics on a sheet of paper. Characters are divided by character class, which refers to the area of their training and the way they make a living. From time to time with allegations of luring children to Satanism or some such intangible evil when some kids who play the game go and do something monumentally stupid. (more…)
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