What is this 'Dungeouns and Dragons' thing you keep going on about?

I once heard the Internet described as "the first large-scale electronic pornography distribution mechanism" which is largely correct. (Although we might amend that definition to include ads for HERBAL VIAGRA.)

Maybe it's just because I've had three beers in the last 30 minutes, but the zombo.com link is fucking funny. I've reloaded it three times so far and I'm still laughing.

Megan,

You work at front desk of the DC Registry of Motor Vehicles, don't you?

Please present a valid photo ID in order to get your photo ID.

I think it's the beers, Megan.

although I must admit, the Baron Samedi voice at zombo.com is a nice touch.

utron,

The infinite is possible.

I've argued that Fantasy Football is D&D in shoulder pads.

I've got Curtis Martin...Marshall Faulk....

Fuck you, loser. You've "got" a bunch of names on a piece of paper with absolutely no control over whether or not they score "A Running TD from +40 yards"

Tell me, please, how that is any different from rolling a 20 sided die with your Paladin (who you could also name Curtis Martin).

Utron,

Baron Samedi? It sounds like Cookie Monster to me.

Or Carrot Monster.

Whatever he's called now.

Oh, come on, Rocketeer. Didn't you see Live and Let Die? I swear, I think they got Geoffrey Holder to record that voice.

Unless he's dead. Although they might have exhumed him. And, really, that would have made the joke even better.

And on the fantasy baseball thing -- as much as I love baseball, I have to agree that fantasy sports are just dumbed-down versions of older (and better) RPGs. I've always thought that if you *really* want to expereince the "real game", why not offter to coach in Little League or American Legion baseball? They could use the help, and you get the added bonus of helping out youngsters in the bargain.

one thing I didn't see was suck.com.

liberal as shit, but damn, that was some funny writing in the day. And I also missed the part about Commodores and such in the mid 1980s.

Stay awhile . . . Stay FOREVER!!

Uh, yeah, I saw it - I was joking - halfway. But the "You can do anything at zombocom. Anything. At all." still sounds like some weird love-child of Geoffrey Holder and Cookie Monster to me.

You all are asshats.

Wow, I'd almost forgotten about GURPS ("when Dungeons & Dragons simply isn't geeky enough anymore...")

Made the same D&D observation when the damn 5 things went around.

But seriously how old is the new Dusty? I wouldn't want old Ace to get locked up.

"You all are asshats."

Yeah, so?

Later,
bbeck

I think the dude at Zombo sounds like that bald-headed black guy who used to the 7-Up 'Uncola' commercials. "Refreshing! Ahahahahahahahaha!"

Carrot Monster is funny. Sad, but funny. This pc shtuff has to stop! I'm goin' home and force feeding my 5 year old an entire bag of Double Stuff Oreos dammit!

GURPS only has four stats.

Someone looking for red-hot stat action might be better served by some of the first-gen D&D clones out there, like Palladium.

Compos,

the 7-up guy is Geoffrey Holder, the Baron Samedi dude from Live and Let Die that people have been saying this sounds like.

You want stats? Rolemaster, as Ace wisely mentioned, is the pinacle. 10 Ability scores, dozens of classes, a separate chart for every weapon and every type of spell... a cross of RPG and Accounting!