… or nerd?* You decide.
* I should note that I am definitely not one to be throwing stones from this particular glass house, but I thought it was funny when you consider what our opponents paint us as being. I can imagine them scratching their heads wondering if those D&D modules come in handy at the local militia meetings.
That’s awesome is what it is.
Oh, well, if you wanted THOSE kind of Role Playing Games, you have to go to Twilight: 2000!
See, e.g., http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/401/T2000-v1-Allegheny-Uprising?it=1
Before there was Twilight 2000, (and no, that is NOT the prequel to the vampire books), there was The Morrow Project, where hand-to-hand combat is theoretical at best.
Heh. I have an original printed copy.
Sigh. Nerd here. I see what you did there.
Hey, why can’t I be both? ;)
I mean the anti’s like going on biased information 20+ years out of date, right? We all know that Gamers are a bunch of anti-social misfits who will go on homicidal/suicidal rampages in the sewers/steamtunnels of your local college.
Role playing a character who leads an undead army to sack a castle is just practice for the real thing. Except for the undead part…
Everyone knows it’s really comic book nerds that are the ones ready to snap at any moment.