Dorkiest Thing You've Ever Done in Gaming...

[Corbert]

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[MonkeyDragon]

I wanted to larp, but I wanted a more D&D-y experience...so I WROTE a larp. About once a year, I spend about a month planning an event at the rate of about 20 hours a week so that my friends and I can swing homemade foam swords and hurl beanbags at one another for two days.

 

[Hawkeye]

He asked for dorkiest, not most embarrassing.

Plus, this was in a hotel in a major metropolitan area - the con took up the function space, but not even half the rooms of the hotel. There were mundanes aplenty, I assure you

Try going to a hotel with a Con and a Salvation Army convention going on at the same time.

Hawkeye

 

[Dlsharrock]

Hm. My dorkiest moment is yet to happen, evidently. What an uncomfortable thought

 

[roguerouge]

Well, it's not the dorkiest thing I've ever done, 'cause I've written a lengthy article on opening title sequences and I teach courses on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But in gaming, it might have been presenting a conference paper on how gamers are creating modern neo-folklore on pagan figures to an audience which included pagans, witches, chaos magicians and Wicca practitioners.

It's one thing to be dorky in front of people who know nothing about what you're doing. It's quite another to be dorky in front of people who know your references quite a bit better than you do.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Some of mine...

Married my GM (she was running the game when I moved into the area, we were dating within 2 months and engaged 3 after that - next year will be our 20th anniversary).

Which leads to the second thing - we have both passed up you know what for you know what. But when we do solo role-playing that sometimes leads the other direction, notably when playing romantic scenes.

I play HERO as my primary system, and it is technical and detailed. It is a great game for frustrated game designers. I've converted many many spells feats and class abilities from D&D to Fantasy Hero (3rd ed D&D) in the game I GM. I play 4E.

I also took and merged Rolemaster and Mythus. One out of print dead game, and one that at the time had almost no support (and I was running 1st ed Rolemaster anyway). That is pretty geeky. We played it for about a year.

I belong to too many message-boards.

I've had 4 commissions done for a single character by 4 different artists.

In the non game side I own the complete DVD box sets of Babylon 5, Stargate, Andromeda, Farscape and all the Star Treks... most of which I got at cost (No way I could afford retail).

And the biggest one - I worked at a game/comic shop as the Comic book specialist and the RPG specialist (this was a mostly Card/Mini store). I learned the 3.5 rules so well (see the previous post about frustrated game designer) that 5 other groups would come to me for Sage Advice and rulings.

Had a number of articles published in the Hero games official magazine too.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

It's one thing to be dorky in front of people who know nothing about what you're doing. It's quite another to be dorky in front of people who know your references quite a bit better than you do.

Ouch.

 

[Tervin]

First I can think of, from 25 years ago:

Statting up all the Valar Deities & Demigods style... and thinking I was cool for doing so, and that it would be very useful when I played.