Every time I tried to play D&D it took so long to get set up that it wasn't worth it. Battletech took less time to get set up and was a little more rewarding but you don't have your own character. Magic The Gathering was more fun because you could play instantly and often. The problem with these games wasn't so much the games themselves, but the people that play them. You know the type, the kind of people that have no validity outside the geek world so to show their superiority they have to one up everyone with their geek knowledge or put everyone else down as doing something stupid. The kind of people that Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons is based on only in real life they're a thousand times worse.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
