another famous MMORPG player is pitcher Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox...as a matter of fact he wrote at least one game review - i believe it was for either an everquest or ultima expansion pack - for pc gamer magazine a few years back...

I saw Vin talking about his D&D playing on Conan O'Brien once. Talking is the wrong word: he was bragging.

Based on what I saw on Stephen Colbert last night he sure sounds like he's either awfully good at repeating something written by a staffer who's a D&D geek or he was one himself.

As for online D&D taking over, it's a depressing thought. What D&D players really don't need is an opportinity to socialize in real life even less than they already do.

Dave

I'm pretty sure playing D&D is only properly done in college, when you deter from the quest for 15 minutes to make fun of each other.

According to Colbert's wikipedia entry here: he is (or was) indeed an avid role-player.

As for Curt Schilling, he personally ressurected some major series of counter-based wargames from Avalon Hill's remains by
founding/funding Multi Man Publishing.

-Adam

Isn't Schilling a Squad Leader geek?

Dave

Hmm, reminds me of the song "Video kills the radio stars" :)

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Perhaps it's equally sad that I know this but on the D&D movie DVD, in the bonus features you will find a brief interview with Vin Diesel.

about Colbert from the Colbert Report, I too was thinking that a staffer may have written the DnD piece, that is until the closing seconds of the show. If you look closely, Stephen walks away from the shelf where he just placed his gaming dice (retiring his dice in favor of the new online gaming medium). And as the camera slowly zooms in on the shelf, Stephen picks up one final die and makes a roll. The dice he rolls is a D20 (the only D20), the other dice he left them alone. It was also the only black die, all the others where white. After I saw him roll the D20, I thought, "yeap, he's a gamer." I'm not sure what he rolled :)

Dave: Yep. That's the focus of MMP, and why I've heard of them.

I saw Mike Myers in an interview with a Canadian Kids Show or Network way back near the beginning of his SNL career. He admitted to the young teen female interviewer that he use to play D&D as a teen, to which the (preppie) girl made a face and implied he must have been a geek.

Mike may have taken slight offense to that comment because, although he was too nice to really tear her to shreds verbally, he did take a dig at her by saying if she had ever played D&D, her character's name should be (something like) "'Beauticia', because you're sooooooooo beautiful" (said with his teeth stuck out like a nerd).

I killed myself laughing, but I think the sarcasm went above her head. :)

Old-school pencil-and-paper roleplaying games are far from dead. After a hiatus of over fifteen years away from the genre, I recently found my way into a group of gamers exploring the Version 3.5 rules of Dungeons and Dragons. We're having a roaring great time in all our game sessions.

There seem to be many others besides us playing these rules too, judging by the number of independently produced software tools available to help create characters and do other game-related tasks.

I hesitated to share my experience here until I realized the sheer volume of my comments on space exploration, sci/tech, and computer gaming topics must have already solidly established my nerd creds.