No, there are millions of people who've never played D&D (probably billions) and of them there have to be several thousand SF writers, whether writing at your level, higher, or lower, or whatever, who've never laid hands on a D&D sourcebook or a character sheet. That being said, I played D&D a little during one year of High School but I never really got into it. I think the problem is that if you jump into a game like that you should do it with people that don't know anything about it too, otherwise you just get discouraged. That was my problem. I jumped into a game where everyone else, basically, knew all about it and understood it, and I didn't know a darned thing at all. So when I made a mistake or said something silly, they just laughed and ridiculed, which ruined the whole point of playing for me anyway. So I got into other RPGs (Rifts, for example) and played with people who knew very little so it would be more entertaining for me and them. Yeah, so don't worry about it. If you didn't play D&D you're still cool :P. You write SF, that's an automatic Cool Point for you.
Oh, grrr, I was going to buy Endgame over Christmas but the only copy the book store had was all banged up and I don't pay full price for books that are mangled :(. It was depressing though, cause i saw it on the shelf and the spine looks perfect and I was thinking "YES, the LAST COPY, aha!" only to find it was all beaten up. If I see it in there the next time I wander in I'll buy it...it's been on my list for a while.
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Date: 2008-03-10 06:20 pm (UTC)That being said, I played D&D a little during one year of High School but I never really got into it. I think the problem is that if you jump into a game like that you should do it with people that don't know anything about it too, otherwise you just get discouraged. That was my problem. I jumped into a game where everyone else, basically, knew all about it and understood it, and I didn't know a darned thing at all. So when I made a mistake or said something silly, they just laughed and ridiculed, which ruined the whole point of playing for me anyway.
So I got into other RPGs (Rifts, for example) and played with people who knew very little so it would be more entertaining for me and them.
Yeah, so don't worry about it. If you didn't play D&D you're still cool :P. You write SF, that's an automatic Cool Point for you.
Oh, grrr, I was going to buy Endgame over Christmas but the only copy the book store had was all banged up and I don't pay full price for books that are mangled :(. It was depressing though, cause i saw it on the shelf and the spine looks perfect and I was thinking "YES, the LAST COPY, aha!" only to find it was all beaten up. If I see it in there the next time I wander in I'll buy it...it's been on my list for a while.