TheCountAlucard
2008-05-03, 11:45 PM
The following happened to me Friday. I feel the need to tell somebody about this, so I'm gonna talk about it here...
So, I was at this church-sponsored free lunch on campus yesterday; I had my laptop and a couple of D&D character sheets with me (I had just finished updating them, since my players' characters had leveled up), and I was just sitting there, eating a beef burrito.
Anyway, someone starts to walk by me; he's a complete stranger to me. I might've seen him at a previous lunch or two, but I didn't know the guy. Takes me a second to realize it (I wasn't really paying attention), but he had stopped, and was looking at the top character sheet (one of the four-pagers, belonged to the party cleric).
I started to explain to him that it was a D&D character sheet. Having expected him to lose interest, I was surprised to hear him ask what some of the numbers meant. I switched to one of the two-page character sheets, hoping that I wouldn't overwhelm him, and began to explain some of the simpler stuff on the sheet.
He took it all in, asking questions here and there, which I answered to the best of my ability. He seemed to understand the concept of an RPG already, and was pretty intrigued by D&D, once I had explained what I could to him. I pulled out some of my resources for the more complex stuff. Eventually, he asked me if there was some sort of online source of information; I told him about the SRD.
Anyway, yeah. In five minutes, I had talked my way through getting a complete stranger interested in D&D. I didn't scare him off or overwhelm him with hundreds of rules. He left promising that he'd take a look at the SRD.
Responses? What do you guys think? Any similar stories amongst you playgrounders?
So, I was at this church-sponsored free lunch on campus yesterday; I had my laptop and a couple of D&D character sheets with me (I had just finished updating them, since my players' characters had leveled up), and I was just sitting there, eating a beef burrito.
Anyway, someone starts to walk by me; he's a complete stranger to me. I might've seen him at a previous lunch or two, but I didn't know the guy. Takes me a second to realize it (I wasn't really paying attention), but he had stopped, and was looking at the top character sheet (one of the four-pagers, belonged to the party cleric).
I started to explain to him that it was a D&D character sheet. Having expected him to lose interest, I was surprised to hear him ask what some of the numbers meant. I switched to one of the two-page character sheets, hoping that I wouldn't overwhelm him, and began to explain some of the simpler stuff on the sheet.
He took it all in, asking questions here and there, which I answered to the best of my ability. He seemed to understand the concept of an RPG already, and was pretty intrigued by D&D, once I had explained what I could to him. I pulled out some of my resources for the more complex stuff. Eventually, he asked me if there was some sort of online source of information; I told him about the SRD.
Anyway, yeah. In five minutes, I had talked my way through getting a complete stranger interested in D&D. I didn't scare him off or overwhelm him with hundreds of rules. He left promising that he'd take a look at the SRD.
Responses? What do you guys think? Any similar stories amongst you playgrounders?