Anyone have effective closet gamer detection methods?

[johnsemlak]

If you are looking for a more subtle approach leave a d20 or other non-d6 dice on your desk.

Ah, good idea.

Maybe a character sheet as well.

 

[Horacio]

Leaving casually a d20 on your desk has always be my favorite strategy. It works...

 

[arwink]

I've often found just telling people "I play DnD" when they ask what I do with my weekends works.

 

[Buttercup]

If you are looking for a more subtle approach leave a d20 or other non-d6 dice on your desk.

This is an excellent idea! In fact, I think I'll start carrying one in my purse and idly playing with it now and then, during meetings or some such.

 

[shadowlight]

I found one gaming couple through a Servant of the Shard magnet that I'd left on my refrigerator We got talking about Forgotten Realms books and found out that we both played D&D as well...

I think another good resource is the wives. I found two other gaming couples because my wife mentioned to a friend something that happened when she was "playing Dungeons and Dragons last weekend". Her friend's husband plays, and when the two women were at church making plans for a game night, another woman overheard them and said "D&D? My husband plays that!" We now have a 4 couple gaming group!

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

I leave the Dark Dungeons anti-D&D tract by Jack Chick in the bathroom. Inevitably, gamers find it and ridicule it, thus exposing themselves.

One time, someone (not a player) referred to another employee as a troll. I said, "That's funny, I thought trolls were green and seven feet tall...." Someone else piped up, "And regenerate 3 hit points a round." Gamer found.

 

[Ranes]

At a party many years ago, I happened to be talking to some friends who were gamers but we were not discussing games at the time. A friend of a colleague wondered over, smiled and asked, "Who's got the dice?"

At a company I worked for in the nineties, employees expressing concern about the inevitability of something bad happening would often employ the phrase 'no saving throw'.

They're everywhere. Trust no one.

 

[Zander]

Re: Re: Anyone have effective closet gamer detection methods?

Eh, I'm unimpressed. The movie uses the word halfling at one point, when Saruman and Gandalf are walking the grounds of Isengard.

Tolkien uses "halfling" as well as "hobbit". However, non-gaming Tolkien enthusiasts, rarely call them halflings.

I collect dice. Most dice collectors under the age of 45 or so are gamers or have gamed at some point.

 

[Zander]

I leave the Dark Dungeons anti-D&D tract by Jack Chick in the bathroom. Inevitably, gamers find it and...

...use it as toilet paper?

 

[Piratecat]

When I was younger, my parents would always get it backwards and that would drive me nuts.
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My Dad is 65 now days, and still calls it Dragons & Dungeons

[Sigh]

Heh - your's too? My Mom still calls it that, just to watch me twitch.