d20 bullies

[Algolei]

I put the likelihood that this story actually happened at about, oh, 5%.

That's it! Next recess, you're goin' down.

[Ancalagon]

Aren't 8th grade boys supposed to be interested in girls? Maybe the d20 8th grade boys are so upset because they see their 'career build' taking them to the prestige class of drag queen.

[Dwayanu]

Isn't even now even this video-gamey D&D-manque part of a FTF/paper-and-pencil RPG subculture? Don't any sort of "outsiders" gotta cut each other some slack?

I remember an occasion decades ago when a non-gamer girlfriend (yes, I know ... ) made a point of bringing up the topic in a meeting with one of her cousins. He turned out to be a RoleMaster fanatic, but I don't think our exchange of views warranted her social-lubrication alarums. Throw together two Chess players, and they might find it interesting for a spell to debate the merits of the Queen's Gambit Refused (or whatever Chess players talk about).

I can't see someone taking a physical swing at me because he prefers another game! Maybe that's just evidence of my being an "old fogey." I wouldn't put it past kids to invent a "gangsta" scheme around game preferences, but ... it seems SO pathetically geeky.

That said, I've seen the vehemence with which rival "orthodoxies" in marginalized groups can attack each other. Have we an anthropologist in the house?

[Benoist]

Oh my goodness. http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=32631

As a huge fan of tabletop RPGs, and all the editions of (A)D&D, including 3rd ed, it shocks and saddens me to find out this sort of thing happens among young gamers. This totally sucks.