Dungeons & Dragons Anniversary Gets Further Celebration

Thanks to GameSpy for its series of articles helping commemorate the 30th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. Continuing previous articles about the occasion, the week-long feature includes a look back at SSI's Gold Box series (" the first series of games to truly bring the D&D experience to video gamers"), The Daily Show's Stephen Colbert discussing his D&D schooldays ("We were all complete outcasts in school -- beyond the fringe, beyond nerds"), and a feature on Planescape: Torment ("One of the greatest, and certainly the weirdest, RPGs ever made.")

Comments

Based on hours spent...

[ConceptJunkie]

I should have received a degree in D&D with a minor in Computer Science.

A truer thing never said:

[Johnny Mnemonic]

From the interview with Stephen Colbert: I put more effort into that game than I ever did into my schoolwork.

If I had had 1/10 of the enthusiasm for my schoolwork as I did for drawing maps on graph paper and figuring the averages of different dice shapes and combinations I could have gone to Harvard.

Instead, I moved from D&D to MUSHing, and now I post on / in the middle of the day. So it goes.

ps: A 6 sided die has a 3.5 average, for those who had things to do on Friday nights :)

Re:A truer thing never said:

[rune.w]

But what about a d20???? Hell, it's Friday and time is running out, thank you very much...

Re:DnD replaced by MMORPG

[Anonymous Coward]

You do realize the irony in referring to D&D as "real life", right?

Re:Overhyped

[Anonymous Coward]

As far as realism goes...

Dude, you're talking about a game called Dungeons and Dragons, for Christ's sake... : p