When I was a kid, my friends and I discovered Dungeons & Dragons, the original fantasy role-playing game. We thought it was fun, and we played for about a year or so (that year being essentially fifth grade), but after a while we all realized that if we kept playing we ran the risk of being labeled geeks for the rest of our lives.
Whether or not I could be considered a geek today is a subject of some debate, but if I am, it’s not because I used to play D & D. I gave that up at the age of about 11 when it became apparent that players of role-playing games were heavily ridiculed and ended up in high school with no friends, wearing denim jackets with Jethro Tull artwork painted on the back. Read More