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2005-03-07 Israel-Palestine

IDF says D&D players are detached from reality and automatically given a low security clearance

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-07 9:19:44 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gads, we used to play D&D aboard ship. In fact, our dungeonmaster had been in the original group that later became TSR (I know - I'm dating myself....).

Then again, we didn't dress up and use the passageways as dungeons.

Posted by Pappy 2005-03-07 9:47:59 PM|| 2005-03-07 9:47:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously they haven't heard of the Sword of Infidels which is +4 vs Mooselimbs and gives protection +2 vs Seething or they would change their mind in a damn hurry!

We used to play D&D back when I was a teenager. We didn't get dressed up or use figurines or anything 'detached' like that. And it was always fun when the starving party ("I thought you had the rations!") would come across a conviently placed Circle K down about the fifth level.....

In other words we played it for fun.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-07 9:59:46 PM|| 2005-03-07 9:59:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 D&D players may suffer from low Charisma, but as long as their Strength and Dexterity are high enough, I don't see what the IDF's problem is.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-03-07 10:04:23 PM|| 2005-03-07 10:04:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Article is a fake! The pictures were taken outside! Real D&D nerds never see the light of day.

This isn't D&D. Dungeons and Dragons is played with paper, pencil, and dice.

The pictures are from the Society for Creative Anachronism or similar, which has stuff like people running outside and hitting each other with sticks wrapped in foam. There are also people who pretend that they're vampires and run around university campuses at night.

That being said, both groups of people are totally gay and I would never want one backing me up in a firefight. Flakes. Yeah I know there's creative and positive people, but those don't make good soldiers.

Posted by gromky 2005-03-07 10:06:28 PM|| 2005-03-07 10:06:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Oooooookay. Considering I had 3 people from My old group were in the 82nd, and the other was a Marine who fought in GWI. Nope. Can't make good soldiers out of D&D players.

Posted by jackal 2005-03-07 10:28:44 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-03-07 10:28:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmmmm. I wonder what they think of "furries"...

Posted by jackal 2005-03-07 10:30:45 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-03-07 10:30:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't ask, don't tell (for the love of God!)

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-03-07 10:35:04 PM|| 2005-03-07 10:35:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 ookay. Stupid and dumb. I play D&D, was in the 101st, had a security clearance and was well grounded in the reality that I could go and shoot people as well as get shot myself. I think it is time to introduce the egghead shrinks that thought that crap up to a wall-to-wall counseling session.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-03-07 10:40:54 PM|| 2005-03-07 10:40:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 But, but at NWN I have a +5 Astral sword and I am a level 21 enchantress and level 20 warrior. The game uses Wizzards of the Coast D&D rules. I thought Quake3Arena was a time sink until I started playing NWN.

I think their shrinks have too much time on their hands. The whole thing is about playing as a goal oriented team or party. Wonder what they think about Wolfenstein 3-D and it's ilk.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-03-07 11:11:53 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-03-07 11:11:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I submit that the best D&D dungeonmasters went on to design the architecture of the Internet.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-03-07 11:18:05 PM|| 2005-03-07 11:18:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I think some of our civil affairs troops in Iraq need a special edition of SimCity for practice. They can practice renovating Bagdad or Fallujah while dealing with IEDs and terrorists.

They'd have to remove the SimCity "bulldoze a church--get a nasty disaster' rule, though.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2005-03-07 11:29:13 PM|| 2005-03-07 11:29:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 All I have to say is, you people have never met any of the D&D or SCA "people" that I have.

Posted by gromky 2005-03-07 11:42:41 PM|| 2005-03-07 11:42:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Pray tell.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-07 11:44:51 PM|| 2005-03-07 11:44:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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