be totally honest...did you play D&D?
 

plenty of poindexters here in OT. come clean, did you play dungeons and dragons?

I had a room mate that was really into this in the 80's; kind of an extension of his "RISK" fetish. I played once. Not that I wasn't interested, I've just never been a fiction kinda guy. I've never bothered with any kind of games, and when I did, I just play until I conquer it, then I lose interest.

My son is a big gamer, loves his Play Station. He brings it over and we play golf once in a while. I like that. Almost beat him last game, lost by one stroke because I choked on the 18th green. :)

No, I prefer to bathe and have real friends.:D

Yup. Even went to GenCon in '83. Had all my D&D books signed by Gygax... traded 'em for a Ruger 44 carbine about 20 years ago.

honestly, my good friend played it religiously...i almost got sucked into the fantasy. then i met a girl named caroline...changed my perspective on what i really wanted. never scored with caroline, but it did help me get my targets straight.

Yep. With some chicks to boot. :)

When you look at all that D&D has spawned...RPGs, MMORPGs's, fantasy genre movies, books, etc, etc it really is unbelievable. Gary Gygax was one smart mofo.

So who here plays an MMO?

what is MMO?

I had two roommates that got into Ultima Online, kind of a D&D esque role playing online game. We of course made fun of them mercilessly. One of them was more casual, and somehow even managed to score with women (a lot) with a big map of the UO world taped to his wall. The other got a bit too engrossed, and would dissappear into his room for days on end to play. He somehow ended up sharing IMs with the wife of another player that also lived in KS, and ended up sleeping with her. No joke. He eventually realized how nutty it all was and pulled the plug.

I tried a few times in high school with my friends. As is always the case, the quests never went as planned and most of the time was spent arguing and not playing. I gave up on it pretty quick.

A LOT of the people I work with play D&D, other RPGs, and Warcrack. The week of GenCon is a ghost town around here. Guess what? Most of the people I know who play D&D spend most of their gaming sessions arguing with each other over the proper application of the rules...

I get made fun of because I like cars and not imaginary characters...

Nope, never played it.

I play with myself...does that count? I have the spots on the ceiling to prove it....

Why do I need DD I have Pelican....

Nope, but my son did!

Best, Tom

Nope, never played D&D.
I still play doom, doom II, final doom, heretic, and hexen tho ;)

I use doomsday engine to run them with XP.

Clearly not you. :)

sammyg2 - do you still play the original Quake?

Never.

My 8 year old son is however completely lost in World of Warcraft. It takes a crowbar to separate him from it.

I tried it once while I was away at a boarding school. I really didn't get it. (I'll bet that comes as a surprise)

I played every available role playing game in the 80s and 90s: D&D, AD&D, Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, Star Wars, Warhammer, .... you name it.

Also got into wargames: AH, VG, ASL, WiF, ... you name it

Then into MMORPGs: Star Wars Galaxies, WoW, ...

Now I have a 2 year old son :)

not!

Is that the name of your character? ;)

You know, so when you kill someone it says: "You were just killed by: a 2 year old son."

Battletech > D&D

I was a science geek, president of the science olympiad club at my HS, boy scout until I was 18, majored in computer science in college... But can honestly say I have never played D&D.

Does Zork count?

No!

i played. i was only 10, 11 years old. i still have all my books, and crystal dice set... entire lot for sale, $5,000 :-)

Yes, level three wizard.

Yep, pretty much the same here.

I have daughters now. Stopped playing when they gutted SWG. Which server on SWG?

nope.
i used to play asteroids on a quarter machine though. does that count?

Never played D&D, but I was hugely into Everquest when it first came out. A bunch of us (16) that raced simulators online formed a guild in Everquest. Man, I have to say, that was more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Later tried Star Wars, but the thrill was gone.

I played until I started noticing girls.....

No.....

I played ADVANCED Dungeons & Dragons

I preferred Traveller or Survivor. I also liked some of the Tank battle and Air Combat similations. I lost interest about 1/2 way through college.

Nope. I have it but haven't found a way to run it in 32 or 64 bit.
it doesn't work with doomsday.
If you know a way, I'm all over it.

Nope

But I do play Cybernations.net

As a lifelong computer nerd my friends and coworkers think I have some sort of brain damage cause I have never been into computer games. Zero interest.

My goofing around time is spent sightseeing with Google Earth.

Yup, all the time (early 80s). I also enjoyed the D & D based Boulder's Gate and Icewind Dale computer games that came much later. I was also 1st board on the chess team and starting DE on the football team. So no, just because you play D&D and are on the chess club doesn't mean you can't chew gum and walk at the same time.

Yes. I had some cool characters that my cousin kept for me. Then, he stopped playing and dumped everything :(.

I have never played D&D, was too busy partying. Now that my party days are long gone, I do play MMOs. I currently play Lord of the Rings Online. I play about 6-8 hours a week if I don't have anything major going on. I don't play much when the weather gets nice.

There's a small freeware program called DosBox. It's a DOS emulator. Probably version 7 or 8.