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wow goldWhen Gary Gygax died in March,
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The underlying and manny white assumption was that
Dungeons & Dragons Online had slipped into nerdy nostalgia. But was it merely a 1980s sensation among socially awkward boys who have since abandoned papers, pencils and 20-sided dice in favor of pixels, avatars and artificial intelligence?
Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, doesnt think so. The game is alive and well, says Scott Rouse, a senior brand manager for D&D, as fans call it. He estimates that four million people still play the old-fashioned way, around kitchen tables or in basements. His company now hopes that hordes of them will adopt an overhauled system of rules. Last month, Wizards of the Coast published a fourth-edition set of D&Ds three core rulebooks, the Players Handbook, Monster Manual and Dungeon Masters Guide. Theyve already gone into a big second printing thats supposed to last through Christmas
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Some of the best parts of the game havent changed at all: Long swords remain efficient weapons of orc destruction, and sorcerers still may cast stinking cloud spells that induce nausea in their unfortunate targets. More important,
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The DMs serve a dual function as narrators who
Dungeons & Dragons Online describe situations and umpires who referee the action. The players -- four or five is considered optimal -- take on the roles of dwarfish warriors, elfish enchanters, human rogues, or whatever else suits their fancy. They fight monsters, solve riddles, and swap stories. There are no winners or losers in the conventional sense, and games can go on indefinitely. Ive been playing with the same group for decades, says Ed Greenwood, who has written dozens of D&D supplements. Were making a movie that isnt shown anywhere
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The game quickly became a phenomenon, showing up in Stephen Spielbergs 1982 manny white movie E.T. and as a Saturday morning cartoon. Yet it always has suffered from a social stigma -- the dark suspicion that it was a pastime for pimply faced misfits who couldnt run with the jocks or get dates on Friday nights. Some parents also found it creepy, especially when they flipped open the Monster Manual
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