Spot the deliberate mistakes.

[davywavy]

In an utterly doomed bid to make roleplaying cool and hip to a New Generation^tm, yo, jive with the roleplaschnizzle in my crib, the makers of D&D have produced this little animated feature.
Now I don't know about your thoughts, but the depiction of gamers bears little or no relation to the sordid reality to which I have become accustomed.

With that in mind, I'm throwing open another one of my famous 'promise a prize but never deliver' competitions, in which I invite you lot to watch the animation and then list as many ways as you can see that the game, the gamers, and their house depicted differs from the awful reality of actual roleplayers.

Comments

[ukporl.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm compiling a list, but my first impression (backed up by the way the game only lasted for 20 seconds and was therefore obviously a pretext for something else) was that the guy whose house they were at fancies the GM.

Clearly.

I'm sorry, I've got to say it-that film was bloody awful! I bet those actors/models never work again, purely out of shame.

[ukporl.livejournal.com]

I was also annoyed it wouldn't let me select their beer or crisps to see what flavours they were.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Me too. Their taste in music sucks as well.

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

1) One freaking roll before they go for pizza?
2a) Fireball roll accepted with good nature rather than - "but I dodged behind that big shield! You're such a cheat!"
2b) DM doesn't attempt to fudge rolls to make his mighty NPC creature withstand their attacks and thus prove his fertility is better than theirs.
3) Room not strewn with rock music posters, books and mould.
4) They all look damn attractive by gamer standards - no congenital skin defects, anyway, and clean clothing.
5) Doesn't appear to be living with his mother/disapproving wife

I'm out.

[cavalorn.livejournal.com]

1. Table is clean.
2. So is carpet.
3. So is players' clothing.
4. And players' hair.
5. ... which is also neat and not longer than the nape of the neck in any case.
6. Term 'backstab' used in a 3.5 edition game.
7. No sign of any PC, Playstation, XBOX or alternative means of entertainment.
8. All dice on table, rather than beneath chair, table, bookcase etc.
9. No piles of paper with hastily jotted notes that prove impenetrable on the next session (such as the comment 'Bones and a HAT!' which I still have no idea what it was referring to)
10. No character sheets that look like they have been trampled by elephants with coffee cups on their feet.
11. No piles of books that aren't actually used.
12. No non-WOTC products.
13. All players remain focused on the game throughout.
14. DM's screen is stiffly upright and not sagging, knocked over or just not bothered with.
15. No ancient, battered, badly painted Citadel Miniatures with missing body parts.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Oh Jesus.

It would be like roleplaying with Wakefield if they were castrated and on Prozac.

And in my female opinion none of those guys would ever get a chick.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

"Roleplayers in 'not getting a girl' shocker!"

[ukporl.livejournal.com]

The first player might get a guy though.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

On the front page of the News of the World.

At least the Next Generation is consistent with some roleplaying traditions.

[emach.livejournal.com]

Excuse my lack of RL game experience, but would an average game session look like it's going to dissolve into a circle jerk soon after the pizza?

[sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com]

Looks pretty standand to me, aside from going for pizza after the big kill rather than all going off to the shower.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

If it did, it wouldn't be something you wanted to film. Oh God, no.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I will never, ever come to game at your house.

[ukporl.livejournal.com]

THANK you! I'm glad somebody else said that first.

Look at his face when he's asking the DM if he wants some "popcorn" *nudge, nudge, wink, wink*.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

So WOTC is repositioning D&D as the gay pick-up medium of choice?
"Excuse me, would you mind casting Bigby's Clenched Fist? Up my arse?"

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I don't even know where to begin.
Things that haven't been mentioned yet:
- Clearly, these aren't geeks and they're all far too hip/trendy both in looks and attire
- Where's the PC or laptop, cluttered desk, stacks of fantasy and scifi paperbacks/DVDs?

However, the game itself is very similar to my only ever D&D game I played at a con (dungeon crawl with fight against Big Bad Guy which was over after a few minutes).

The only actual real thing is the bloke being late because there's always one. We had someone like that in our irregular Vampire group. We would always tell him the game started an hour before the actual time so he'd only be a maximum of 15 minutes late...

[angusabranson.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. Could be kinda fun :p

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

That is true. I didn't see any poppers on the tables though. Perhaps creatively obscured by the bowl of probably-just-salted-chips?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I defer to your superior experience in such things O.o

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You don't think those dips are just cream and chive, do you?

Sorry.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Nonsense! This is all normal healthy behaviour for roleplayers. It's the freaks out there in the real world that worry me!

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

If those aren't chives... what are they?!!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I dont' know. But they're wriggling.

[sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com]

Good thing I had no intention of inviting you then.

However you will be comming to Requiem Saturday week I trust. :D

[sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com]

My new best friend!