A little too familiar between friends

[diaglo]

As far as gaming goes, there have been instances where I have had to role play an NPC flirting with a PC. Right now, for example, the male dwarf cleric (played by a woman) has a crush on the female dwarf propiretor of a tavern. This has been going on for a couple of sessions, and it's amusing, but I find it a bit uncomfortable too. Still, I'll be doing my best to run with it. At the very least, I figure it's a source of future adventures.

i swear my old group would go out of their way to force situations like this on me. they just wanted me to change my voice to a higher pitch. i always wanted to get them to just pick someone else to chat up.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

Oh, I see we have a contingent that thinks that logic plays a part in marriage.

If you think she overreacted and you're married (or in a long term relationship), try this experiment. When you're at home with your significant other in the room (where she can hear you), pick up your house phone, call your (currently off) cell phone and say the following:

"Hey, Hun. I'm just calling to check in." (Pause five seconds.) "No, not right now." (Pause four seconds). "OK, Sweetie. I'll see you then."

Then hang up and sit down to read/watch tv. Wait for your significant other to say something first.

Hmmmm. My long term signifigant other wouldn't :
A. notice
nor
B. care

(he'd assume I was talking to my 11 year old neice, or other relative, or a friend). I always jokingly flirt with the guys we game with and no one takes it seriously or cares. It's just all in good fun. Maybe we're weird. We trust each other. And if he did react negatively and accuse me of whatever, I'd leave him. Trust is a must, as they say.

But this is not the place to discuss it.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I have that problem all the time - my absentmindedness kicks in, usually when I'm in a hurry. I'm used to telling my wife, "I love you" before I hang up the phone or before I leave her anyplace. As a result of hurrying, I've told my boss over the phone "I love you" twice, and his secretary at least once.

It's a nice habit gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Well, at least you must have a reputation around the office for being a friendly guy...

...a REALLY friendly guy... but still

 

[Barak]

Bah.. I "flirt" with pretty much every female friends of my wife's. And it's a running joke between her, me, and most of those that I'm having an affair with them. My wife knows darn well I'd never cheat on her.

It's even funnier since three of them had babies in the past year.

 

[wedgeski]

When the tosser finally said, "I tossed you the towels ... and don't call me Sweatheart," I figured out what had happenned. Everyone had a good laugh. Except my wife.

I guess only in the UK is 'tosser' an insult? In any case, this Brit found that part of your story all the funnier.

 

[RangerWickett]

The only 'tosser' I know of that is a vulgarity involves salad, and I don't want to talk about . . . *shudder*

Um . . . quickly. Must change topic so the grandmother does not attack. Ooh, that'd be a fun FOX special.

I've got a friend who GMs his own game, and goes out of his way to kill his girlfriend's character, so that the rest of the group won't think he's being soft on her. Thing is, she's got a bit of a fragile ego, so I think being killed repeatedly by her boyfriend isn't helping.

 

[wedgeski]

Thing is, she's got a bit of a fragile ego, so I think being killed repeatedly by her boyfriend isn't helping.

ENW truly is the mother lode of messageboard quotes.

 

[Piratecat]

This past game day, I told one of my fellow players, "You can't do that, sweety."

I'm reminded of the Monty Python sketch involving Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson.

When the towels landed in my chair (and without me knowing who threw them), I said, "Thanks, Sweatheart."

...When the tosser finally said, "I tossed you the towels ... and don't call me Sweatheart," I figured out what had happenned.

I know you mean sweetheart, but this particular phrase is especially funny.

 

[Salad Shooter]

I once called my 1st-grade teacher "Mommy." Does that count?

It was very embarrassing....



The Spectrum Rider

You may have called your 1st grade teacher Mommy...but I've been mistaken for my Mommy...and I'm a guy...also was mistooken for my sister by my girlfriend of nearly a year...ah, the amusement of having long hair..

 

[I'm A Banana]

I always call my players "sweetie..."

.....usually in the context of "Does a 46 hit your AC, sweetie?"

It's kind of unnerving, especially seeing as my group is 75% "sexy college coeds"......makes the 3d8 damage I roll that much sweeter....