Cooking and RPGs

This article came up on the Hero Discussion Boards. The commentary has naturally been as amusing as the article itself.

Killjoy Cooking With the Dungeons & Dragons Crowd

To quote from the beginning of the article:

Cookbooks are a lot like Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games. They contain seemingly rigid rules that, in practice, require a certain amount of adaptation for your own tastes.

So how come cooking gets its own TV channel and role-playing games don't even get a show on G4? Maybe the population at large doesn't want to pretend to be a half-elf. Maybe RPGs take more imagination than most people have.

However, it just might have something to do with the role-playing community. If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books, the results would not be pretty.

Two words: Infinite Oregano.