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my housemate can't explain game rules for shit and always leaves something out that becomes important later on and totally screws up your game
Like, "Oh, and at the end, one guy gets fed to the crocodiles" ?
This is actually why we have a "let's just play it through once" rule. The first game doesn't count, unless there's only one player new to the game, and then all the other players have to help the n00b.
So I assume you guys have all seen McCain's blog bagging on D&D players, and the subsequent apology?
So I assume you guys have all seen McCain's blog bagging on D&D players, and the subsequent apology?
Well you know all those whippersnappers using that new geeky Internet thing are just a bunch of D&D playing geeks living in basements.
living in basements.
Of one of their 7 houses.
I disbelieve the apology was real. Unlike the initial swipe by Goldfarb, I have yet to see a link to the apology on an official McCain blog page, so I don't believe Goldfarb actually issued it. I don't believe Goldfarb would actually know what the six basic attributes are, or have a sens of humor that functions like that. I think some other blogger with real knowledge of D&D and funny made up the apology and attributed it to Goldfarb, and now it's getting passed around the blogosphere.
Also, I made my will save.
I can find the McCain comment all over the internet but I haven't been able to find the apology. Real or not, if it's funny may I please have a link?
I can't c&p the link from my iPhone, but if nobody beats me to it, I'll link it when I get to a real computer, laga.
I think here's a version of it:
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eh, too much build-up for that amount of funny.
I think it's just mostly astounding that Goldfarb took a swipe at a group of people based on their hobby. Who's next, philatelists? And I remember the days of D&D being banned.
But, please - have they not seen the high-end catalogs selling high-end Halloween decorations? Geeks are the money.
The... dare I say it... "elitist" money?
