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I recorded it on a VHS tape(yeah, yeah, stop laughing) but I missed
the first five or so minutes. If anyone is able to somehow get a
complete recording on DVD, please send it to the Chair.

On Feb 5, 3:50 pm, forest <hiver7772...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...- Hide quoted text -
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