Forum: Story Discussion and Feedback

You mean the main character doesn't have to be on drugs?

No, but it helps if the reader is.

No, but it helps if the reader is.

Sorry, I wasn't certain if your post was meant as veiled complaint about particular stories on SoL or a serious question. That's why my comment was rather pragmatic. You answered that question now.

veiled complaint... or a serious question.

Sort of both! I've said on here before that I prefer stories that have some basis in reality. Probably, there is a fourteen year old boy somewhere on earth that is getting it on with several different girls and they all know about it and accept it. But, if they exist, they are a lot different than any fourteen year old with whom I've dealt.

Probably, there is a fourteen year old boy somewhere on earth that is getting it on with several different girls and they all know about it and accept it.

That's just plain ordinary fantasy. High Fantasy is Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons and the like.

But, if they exist, they are a lot different than any fourteen year old with whom I've dealt.

Well, perhaps many men have those memories and that's why they like to fantasize about how nice it would have been if it had been different.

The idea is dated, especially since women, as a whole, NEVER played D&D! Nowadays, they turn to "Furries", where males and females dress up as various animals and attend conventions where they can 'zip out' various parts of their anatomies to have sex with each other while staying in character!

This is 100% pure bullshit.

For starters, playing D&D doesn't put you in the nerd ghetto like it used to. It's practically mainstream these days. Seriously, The Rock plays D&D.

Furries, on the other hand, are in the nerd ghetto of the nerd ghetto. Especially the ones who fuck in fursuits, whom even the more mainstream furries think are kind of out there. There are way, way more D&D players than furries like that.

There are way more girl D&D players than furries like that, too. Guys have always been the majority in the hobby, but there are a lot more girls in gaming than there used to be (for which I largely credit Anne Rice and Vampire: The Masquerade for bringing in a healthy infusion of hot goth girls). But even back in the day, the situation was nowhere near as bad as the stereotypes would lead you to believe.

Almost every group I've played in - and I've been gaming since the Moldvay red book back in '82 or so - has had at least one girl in it. I played in an AD&D 2E campaign in high school in the '90s where I was the token guy in an otherwise all-girl group. (Though, sadly, I was only banging one of them.) My girlfriend was the DM; the other players were mostly the various girlfriends of the guys in the game I was running at the time (which my girlfriend also played in).

For starters, playing D&D doesn't put you in the nerd ghetto like it used to.

Yes it does. The nerd ghetto is just a lot bigger than it used to be. Blame parents who have allowed their kids to sit in the house playing videos games for six or more hours a day. That's the spawning grounds for the next generation of nerddom! To say "We're not as nerdy as the furries" is to condemn with very faint praise. No matter how "mainstream" it may become, a nerd by any other name....