[overflow] Re: GHHS

[Mat Butler <winged@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Lee Gold wrote:

> Michelle & Boyd Bottorff wrote:
> > 
> > > Oh, you mean like D&D?  </pain&sarcasm>
> > 
> > Er, yes.  Although D&D has a bad name.  It might be "safer" to play some
> > other roleplaying game.   I'm afraid I don't understand why the
> > "pain&sarcasm."
> 
> Mat's using a pseudo-html convention in which </whatever> means 
> you're now turning off whatever.  <pontificating> Usually you
> start by setting the emotion by enclosing it in angle brackets
> and then turn it off. </pontificating>

My 'pain&sarcasm' comes from the fact that the best DM I ever had in my
life was the minister at my local church.  Who was told by his local
bishop that he had to stop, and then transferred away from our town.

> D&D's bad name is (as you probably know) unwarranted.  Investigation
> shows that teenaged D&Ders are less apt to commit suicide or act
> biolently than teenaged non-D&Ders.  And (as you probably know)
> D&D doesn't involve any belief that any of the characters are
> real, including not just the player character warriors and mages
> and all but also the non-player characters, and doesn't involve
> any tie-in with any occult sects.

I'm reminded of the D&D gaming session captured so succinctly in
MP3... unfortunately I can't remember where I got it, nor do I know the
copyright information on it.

-Mat