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<blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5284779" data-attributes="member: 90804"><p>I've put up a <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/are-you-in-the-rpg-closet/" target="_blank">blog post</a> on this same topic, but since I'm genuinely interested in community input and I don't see all that much traffic on my blog, I wanted to ask the EN World community as well.</p><p></p><p>Do your friends, family and work colleagues know that you play role-playing games? Obviously the people you live with and game with will know, but what about casual acquaintances or family members you only see a couple of times per year? More to the point in my case, what about colleagues from work?</p><p></p><p>I work for a big financial services company in a well-respected position. Yet I've never talked to anyone at work about my hobby (let alone the fact that I blog about it). It's a big chunk of how I spend my free time, but I never bring it up.</p><p></p><p>Granted, I'm not close friends with any of my colleagues, but I know about some of their hobbies and they at least know that I enjoy bowling and that my wife and I take care of foster kittens for the local shelter (and to be clear, I do get some gentle teasing about both of these things). My colleagues don't know that I play D&D.</p><p></p><p>At work, I'm in the RPG closet. Are you? Is it wrong to hide your hobby if you think people will look down on you for it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OnlineDM, post: 5284779, member: 90804"] I've put up a [URL="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/are-you-in-the-rpg-closet/"]blog post[/URL] on this same topic, but since I'm genuinely interested in community input and I don't see all that much traffic on my blog, I wanted to ask the EN World community as well. Do your friends, family and work colleagues know that you play role-playing games? Obviously the people you live with and game with will know, but what about casual acquaintances or family members you only see a couple of times per year? More to the point in my case, what about colleagues from work? I work for a big financial services company in a well-respected position. Yet I've never talked to anyone at work about my hobby (let alone the fact that I blog about it). It's a big chunk of how I spend my free time, but I never bring it up. Granted, I'm not close friends with any of my colleagues, but I know about some of their hobbies and they at least know that I enjoy bowling and that my wife and I take care of foster kittens for the local shelter (and to be clear, I do get some gentle teasing about both of these things). My colleagues don't know that I play D&D. At work, I'm in the RPG closet. Are you? Is it wrong to hide your hobby if you think people will look down on you for it? [/QUOTE]
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