[UA] [OT] "The Game"

[Twist0059 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/22/99 11:27:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
holycrow at mindspring.com writes:

> >The irony of all this?  Remember that movie "The Game"?  If that's what UA 
>  >LARP was like, I'd be the first one to sign up.  Just from my POV, LARP
>  tends 
>  >to be kids pretending to be vampires.
>  
>  After seeing that movie, I was tempted to recommend it to all my non-gaming
>  pals.  "You know that movie 'The Game'?  Well, what I write for is almost
>  nothing like that, but it's MORE like that than it's like D&D."
>  
>  -G.


:-)   Exactly.  To get a non-gaming person to understand what you mean when 
you say RPG, you invariably have to say "You know, like Dungeons and 
Dragons".  The light goes on of recognition, but it's the entirely wrong 
impressive.

Dungeons and Dragons has about as much in common with Unknown Armies, as UA 
has with cubes of plastic that will be turned into dice.  Non-gamers look at 
the theme of D&D, not the way it's played with pencil and paper and die 
rolls.  So they get this truly negative vision of a 30-year-old guy claiming 
to be the "High Priest Toltan".





-Twist

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