| Hi AustinBrown2!
I'm probably the only person on PB who will give a thumbs up to Dungeons and Dragons. I played for years (I was the Dungeon Master) and it can be harmless. I laid a few ground rules for all my players. They had to be 'good', no 'neutral' or 'evil' alignment choice allowed (and this was in my pagan days). I also used Middle Earth as my setting. Ahh, the stories I could tell. Our best was in defeating the Temple of Elemental Evil, or the Desert of Desolation series (that was more like an Indiana Jones movie!)
It depends alot on the group playing the game. Some use it wrongly, and do things that are not right. Then the game would not be good. But if it's used rightly, (which most do), then it's a good game that has a Knights of the round table feel to it, that fuels the imagination and provides good entertainment. The sorcery used in AD&D is far different than the real stuff, and is categorically different. (Harry Potter was far closer to the real stuff). The Magic card game is even 'lamer' so to speak, and isn't even close.
Now I am also taking only about AD&D, (and Magic cards). There are some creepy role-playing games out there that should be avoided like the plague. I never got into them as they were sooo lame (or gross), when compaired to AD&D.
In my final analysis, it depends largely on the group. Have fun and roll that D-20 to make that attack roll on that orc sneaking up behind you. |