Does your spouse/significant other game with you?

[Bigwilly]

Tried it once, showed potential, never played again

Like a few others, my wife originally believed that I would grow out of it. Five years later, I think she's guessed the truth. She did join a single session and had fun despite having absolutely no grasp of the rules. I doubt she'll play again as she sees it as my hobby and doesn't want to feel like she's intruding on my free time - note that a good marriage is definitely one where both partners have some stuff that they do on their own.

Bigwilly

 

[Pseudonym]

My fiancée gamed in college, but fell out of it after she graduated. She joined my Saturday gaming group shortly after we started dating, and has now begun to take an interest in wargamming; though I think she enjoys painting armies more than the actual game.

 

[Piratecat]

KidCthulhu gamed back in Jr high school, and picked it back up in the late 80's after we met. She's an avid player and DM.

I actually know quite a few couples who game together, well over a dozen.

 

[pogre]

my wife and i roleplay all the time....

IYKWIMAITYD

Hong clearly is having a bad influence on you D. Please avoid spending time in threads with him

My wife used to play in our group until we had kids. It just is not possible now - so she has become one who tolerates gaming. When you have three kids 4 and under her attitude is understandable.

 

[Stormborn]

None of These

I suppose I could have chosen "yes, I introduced her to it" but thats not entirely correct. I had gamed a few sessions with some friends of mine and we decided that we needed another player. The DM worked with she-who-was-to-become-my-wife, I had seen her a few times, spoken, but not much more but suggested that she might be interested. She was. About a year later we started dating. About a year or so after that we got married. Yesterday was the 9 month mark and we spent the afternoon playing Pirates of the Spanish Main game at a local shop.
So I didn't REALLY introduce her to it, more like it introduced her to me

 

[janta]

Heck, gaming is how I met my husband! We had a mutual friend who wanted to GM a game, and invited us both to play. We'd never met until that time (though we'd lived on the same floor of one of the college dorms), and got to be friends. Then we discovered we had other stuff in common, and the rest, as they say, is history.

BTW, we have a 16-month-old son, and he's already got his first 20 sider. Ah, tradition....

--Janta

 

[KB9JMQ]

My wife had gamed already in jr high by the time I met her in college.
But it was one of the things that got us togehter.

 

[BSF]

My wife (Eeralai) had gamed before we met. So, I didn't introduce her to the hobby. I may have re-introduced her, but I was not responsible for the initial introduction.

 

[poilbrun]

I introduced my girlfriend to gaming. We started dating and then living together a bit before the release of 3e, so when she saw me buy books for nearly 100€, she was rather intrigued (we were students, so 100€ for something other than beer was a lot!), so she asked me about it. After some explanation, she asked me to try, and since then, we've played several campaign with only the both of us.

Now that we work and have a car, I have finally been able to start a campaign with 3 other players: my best friend, who I introduced to rpg 3 months after I started playing myself, his girlfriend, who started playing a month and a half ago, and my sister, which started playing at the same time. Come to think of it, I'm the only one around the table who was not introduced to RPG by me!

 

[Rafael Ceurdepyr]

Hmm, what category does trading in one gaming spouse for another fit in? Current spouse was a wargamer when I met him (which Stormborn refers to as a gateway drug), but not sure if he played RPGs. There were actually some games in which both then and future spouses played at the same time. Seems quite weird in retrospect...