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I agree with your assessment on this episode. It is was entertaining
without to much geek slamming.

On Feb 4, 10:34 am, WJ Walton <rpgadvoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (Cut and pasted from The Escapist Blog -www.theescapist.com/blog)
>
> Last night's D&D-themed episode of Community> was excellent, in your
> humble host's opinion. It doesn't quite beat out the final episode of
> Freaks and Geeks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXvcezqnG5w) for best
> gaming-themed episode ever, but I would call it a close second.
>
> In it, students at a community college team up to help get one of
> their group out of his emotional funk by playing a game of Advanced
> Dungeons & Dragons with him. There are a few jabs at the geekiness of
> the game, but nothing unfair or out of line, and everyone in the group
> ends up getting into their roles and generally enjoying themselves. A
> lot of the humor was based around inexperienced players trying to get
> a grip on the rules of the game (such as the title of this post,
> uttered by one of them as he tried to find something on his character
> sheet to defend himself from a horde of goblins).
>
> Sure, there were inaccuracies. For some reason, only the DM was
> allowed to use the dice, and unless my bad eyes were deceiving me, he
> rolled the d12 for most everything. Likewise, there was a "seduction
> scene" when the party had to convince an elven princess to let them
> borrow her pegasus (for some reason, non-gamers always want to inject
> the other type of popular "role-playing" into the hobby). But other
> than these, the episode gave a pretty clear picture of how the game is
> played, showed a diverse group of people enjoying themselves with it,
> and even used it as a vehicle to help one of their friends with a
> problem.
>
> Not unlike the aforementioned Freaks and Geeks episode, this one ends
> with the suggestion that they play again someday, which is the best
> way to wrap it up, I say.
>
> Did you miss it, or want to see it again? Watch it here on nbc.com -http://www.nbc.com/community/video/advanced-dungeons-and-dragons/1283...

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