That CAN'T be serious
yeah, thats what they do around there... i remember seeing them at the shops when i was on holiday there a few years ago. personally, i think it looks like heroclix..
I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
Union EU player! Pip pip, tally ho, top hats and tea etc etc
What am I missing?
Its an advert for Dungeons and Dragons and shows some guys turning up to play...
Why isn't it 'serious'?
indeed, they do look like they are having fun, and it seems the advert pokes a bit of fun at the game as well, for example "the demon fluffy".
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I've seen a lot of that style of play recently , got frothed at by some fanboys when I pointed out to them that they're "fantasy wargaming" not rping.
I was quite suprised as I thought that form of rp fell out of fasion years ago in favour for more in depth wargaming or dedicated tabletop rp.
Ah those misty days of getting shouted at for breaking the swords off my uncles latest Ral Partha minitures..... 
A lot of roleplaying games like to be fairly simplistic and played on a dungeon floorplan. Not as much as they used to in Years Past (ie the 80s/90s).. but quite a few always had that option - Deadlands, WFRP, Mutant Chronicles...
Yeah, but most roleplaying groups I know of don't include players who refer to themselves as "Fighter" or "Mage", or high-five when they kill a monster.
Well, actually, the high-fiving has happened... 
Those werent Roleplayers.
Those were Rollplayers.
There are a lot of those in D&D unfortunately *sighs* i DO try to limit the Rollplaying in my group.
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Yeah, but most roleplaying groups I know of don't include players who refer to themselves as "Fighter" or "Mage", or high-five when they kill a monster.
Well, actually, the high-fiving has happened...
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my group high fives when we die (which is enevitable) in imaginative ways. such as the cleric getting drowned in a sewer full of poo by a ottiog (spelling?)
Irony meter rising and rising...
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Yeah, but most roleplaying groups I know of don't include players who refer to themselves as "Fighter" or "Mage", or high-five when they kill a monster.
Well, actually, the high-fiving has happened...
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my group high fives when we die (which is enevitable) in imaginative ways. such as the cleric getting drowned in a sewer full of poo by a ottiog (spelling?)
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Otyugh or Neo-Otyugh..that's the one with the black cape 
I don't roleplay myself, although have tried in the past. I've witnessed some of my mates immerse themselves in it and it does look like fun. Definately get in on high-five'ing and shouts of "whoo!"...but I'd do that anyway regardless if I was roleplaying or not ^_^
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Once I'd managed to navigate through the obscenely awful layout, scripting, video ads, and generally nausea-inducing crapness of the site it's hosted by, my official response is "doubleyou-tee-eff?"
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Now watch the scene where they roll a 20 and the entire studio goes manic shouting 'Natural 20!'. It's guaranteed to move your stomach contents.
Yes, I'm watchign that same scene.
Like the Bowie song.. I'm afraid of americans.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I love the stero it plays some proper funcky tunes. 
The ad simplifies roleplaying for people who might be unfamiliar with the concept, and tries to make it appealing as a pastime to the average person. That doesn't mean all Americans play like that -- it just means that that's a variety of D&D playing (the game CAN, contrary to popular belief, be played in many ways) that is closest to an average outsider's understanding, and thus the easiest way to hook them in.
They can always convert to hardcore roleplayers later, but if we want to preserve the hobby's existence, we need to hook new people, not the old veterans.
They still look like Dorks
That's scary. But this makes me want to watch 8 bit DnD again. Funny flash movie.
I agree with the advert, more high fiving is needed in everyday life. My advice, sort out the super high five with your friend where you jump up and high five in the air with both hands, while you'll occassionally hit each other in the face it's a sweet high five for extremely awesome things like if you, for example, buy a new hat.
"High Five!!!"
*Vomits*
Not sure this is roleplaying "American style". I was on CoH when it came out in the States and their unofficial RP servers were much better than our unofficial European ones.
Alot more people on who were Rpers and far more events and cross team RP activity.
And I played at times when the server had a low population.
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Not sure this is roleplaying "American style". I was on CoH when it came out in the States and their unofficial RP servers were much better than our unofficial European ones.
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Have to disagree with you there. I played on Virtue for quite a while, and the American RP community always seemed to come across as very elitist to me; they'd Roleplay things out in the open, but act very surprised when you tried and join in and would seemingly block out "outsiders".
While there were good people there, I can't say the Roleplay community as a whole was overly welcoming.
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Alot more people on who were Rpers and far more events and cross team RP activity.
And I played at times when the server had a low population.
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There's a great deal more people on the American servers, so of course you're bound to find more people who Roleplay.
This actually seems to be serious.