http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/stranger-breathes-fire-back-dungeons-dragons-article-1.2739642
This is a fun one to see, and it goes to say that D&D comes and goes from pop culture like that strange kid in black who plays the Lawful Evil rogue who shows up unexpectedly at a weekly game and you feel his character is totally min-maxed but you let him play anyways because it's all about as many people having fun as possible. And of course, you're a great DM and can handle the challenge of including him in a group that's already on its way to blow out the module anyways.
Toughen things up, add some extra casters to the encounters, and throw in some interesting non-combat challenges to show them min-maxing isn't always a path to victory. Balanced characters find all roads to victory passable, grasshoppers.
And like that, D&D is back, and as the article says, with 30% of the players being female. You know what this means, right? We are well on our way to pop-culture fad and phenomenon status that will burn our in 3 years when the market gets flooded by me-too games. It's all good though, and major props to Wizards for putting out a simpler version of the game that I don't always get to play, but I still appreciate the design and "keeping it simple" and "not breaking my back with books" philosophy of this release. Well done guys, and props and enjoy your success. You earned it.
Good times. Now let's bring back some of those early 80's games as well in this Renaissance and new golden age and let's make it a complete and great time to be playing pen-and-paper games again.
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