I am an avid RPG-er (role play gamer). That's right, I play Dungeons and Dragons, MERP, and soon, Star Trek.
There seems to be a stereotype revolving around gamers that stemmed from the 80's: unclean, live-with-mama, pimply faced geeks who shun from socialization. This is not true anymore today, yet you still see it on various sorts of media.
So, my question is, why is Fantasy Sport more manly than RPG-ing? Is it because sports are more macho? In reality, Fantasy Sports is almost the same as RPG-ing, just without the dice.
Just as we all don't dress in our Medeival garb to play our characters, you all don't dress as Ian Payton.
So come on, give- why isn't Fantasy Sports considered RPG-ing?
(whoo, I can't wait for the answers for this one...oh, and pay attention - I am female, a college graduate, and a mother of three. Do I fit the stereotype?)
2006-09-11 04:28:17 · 6 answers · asked by rouschkateer 5 in Sports ➔ Fantasy Sports
Thanks...I meant Eli Payton...LOL
2006-09-11 07:17:45 · update #1
This is a fun question...
Traditional RPGs center around "fantasy" genres. Orcs, goblins, wizards, knights, or alien races, intergalactic wars and the lot...
Sports, are played and watched every day by people ages 3 to 80. Being the GM, organizing a fantasy team of real-life professional athletes is simply viewed as an extension of the appreciation of a given sport. It gives the participant a chance to saturate in the sport, and enjoy it on a performance based, statistical level. Still, the sport and fantasy team management are based in real life, TV-viewable, apple-pie-and-Chevrolet, American pastimes.
RPGs are the work of fiction, though do require considerably more imagination. It's more an exercise of the creative side of the brain, rather than the mathmatic, problem-solving side.
The stereotype is, like most stereotypes at least based in some part on reality. Dungeon and Dragon types at one time were often loners, geeks or social outcasts. Not all people fit neatly into this category, and geeks may well be a minority. It's an unfair steretype of course...
In the end, fantasy sports simply are not RPGs, unless the participant reenacts the Ravens-Buccaneers game in his or her front lawn.
2006-09-11 08:59:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say that both can be and probably are equally nerdy. RPG nerds get the worse stereo type due to its much longer history. All through out the 70's and 80's you would hear news stories of pimply faced nerds that actualy took their games so far they would end up living in the woods and even going as far as actually killing people... While that was the extreme its what got shown on the evening news... Sports fans do however dress up like their fantasy players... I have a trent green Jersey myself...
2006-09-11 12:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by manchild192001 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I never thought of that....good point. I guess it's not considered RPG for a couple of reasons.
1. A totally different crowd plays (hypocritical I know)
2. Fantasy sports regards actions that happen in reality, whereas D&D regards action that happens in your imagination.
Kurt Warner really did throw 3 touchdowns last night, but the high priestess elf queen of Langtoth didn't really strike down an elvish warrior with a lightning bolt last night.
2006-09-11 11:57:21 · answer #3 · answered by akristel2003 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
umm, Well maybe b/c fantasy sports are never ending. A person like myself plays fantasy football, baseball and basketball, continuously for the past 5 or 6 years now.
RPG's, like other "VIDEO" games are meant to have a story, with a guaranteed ending. Fantasy sports does not have an ending, it goes on and on and on and on and on and on.
Oh and I dont think ESPN tracks the data on RPG characters.
2006-09-11 13:21:02 · answer #4 · answered by Eltownzjem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beautiful part is that fantasy sports games started out, much like old D&D, with stat cards and D6's. Every player had a card with their stats and the fantasy owners would trade the cards and build their teams like they do nowadays. But instead of using what the player actually does in the sport, they'd roll d6's to determine if they pitch a no-hitter, catch a TD pass or score a hat trick...
2006-09-11 21:06:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You seem somewhat defensive.
I have no problems w/ RPG's(I used to love D&D), but Fantasy Sports is not the same. You aren't pretending to be the players (I suppose you pretend to be a GM/Coach maybe?). The difference is you don't create the environment and you have no control over the outcomes or the players (avatars).
Apples and oranges. Who's Ian Payton?
2006-09-11 13:25:08 · answer #6 · answered by mikep426 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋