Gaming and Your Significant Other

[Gothmog]

No SO here. My girlfriends in the past weren't too keen on gaming, and frequently gave me grief about it, playing the mind games alluded to earlier in this thread. When they invariably came down to "me or the game" or the "if you loved me, you'd...." lines, I knew they were duds and left them.

As it is right now, I'm staying busy enough with teaching classes, research work in my lab, and gaming that I don't really have time for dating or a SO, but it would be nice someday to meet a lady who does enjoy gaming, or at least doesn't hassle me about it and lets me be my nerdy self.

 

[Rel]

Gothmog, meet MonkeyDragon...

 

[El Mahdi]

Gothmog, meet MonkeyDragon...

Matchmaker, matchmaker . . .

 

[Princesskeyblade]

I met my SO at a Con. We were friends for a bit, because he joined the gaming group I was in. We are still in those groups and I just started playing in another group with him.

I love being able to bounce ideas off of him and talk about the game on our rides home.

I love the fact that we can game together. I wouldn't have it any other way!

 

[Rel]

Matchmaker, matchmaker . . .

I'm just in the game for the first born children named after me.

 

[rgard]

My wife used to game, when we first started dating. That ended after a few months.

That happens with other stuff too.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

right...

I need to learn how to phrase that better. *Sigh*

Lots of Char D, game focused solo on one character. Heck she's gone as far as to invent a brand new campaign world, just for my one character. I of course return the favor.

 

[Protagonist]

I need to learn how to phrase that better.
Lots of Char D

You know that you should go to sleep when you read this as "oh someone developed a single-player focussed pen&paper rpg called Char D" and go on to google it. At least I have now learned the English name of a vegetable that is also the name of a small town in England.

 

[Rel]

That happens with other stuff too.

Not in this house, mister!

But then I'm a really great GM.

 

[cthulhu_duck]

My other half is not a gamer.

Apparently, when she was at University she was invited to play by her flatmates.

The game was something like MERP, and while they were all mighty heroes, she was some sort of Bard, and an ineffectual one who wasn't given anything to do. Suffice to say, the story conjured for me a situation where a group of Alpha gamers invite a new player to play, and then never give them any screen time.

If I had a time machine, I'd be lecturing them about how that doesn't encourage new players to keep playing.