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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5444566" data-attributes="member: 18280"><p>Even when I was in high school, Lo these many years ago (to whit: the early 80's), I have members of various cliques playing in my games. In my school (Arrowhead High School, 1981-1984) there were "dirtbags", "preps", "jocks", and a bunch of regular kids. My campaigns included at least a few from each group.</p><p></p><p>But, then, I had long hair, wore Harley Davidson t-shirts (both parents worked there!), was an A student with perfect attendence, scored high enough on the PSAT to make it into the newspaper, was in good physical shape, had a girlfriend, and was fun to hang around. The last one, of course, IMHO, but I certainly had a ton of friends and was invited to more than my share of parties. The point is, I shared traits with people in almost all of those groups, and I was welcome almost everywhere I went. The friends I had then, and have now, were/are not simply "gaming buddies".</p><p></p><p>I was certainly not in the gaming closet. In fact, I credit gaming for bringing together people who wouldn't otherwise have been friends at that time of their lives. And, IME, while life isn't always sweetness and light, gaming has always coalesced groups of people that otherwise wouldn't be together.</p><p></p><p>I guess that's why I don't feel the need to go to Gen Con or other conventions......I've always felt more like a member of a community than like a member of a "gaming community".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 5444566, member: 18280"] Even when I was in high school, Lo these many years ago (to whit: the early 80's), I have members of various cliques playing in my games. In my school (Arrowhead High School, 1981-1984) there were "dirtbags", "preps", "jocks", and a bunch of regular kids. My campaigns included at least a few from each group. But, then, I had long hair, wore Harley Davidson t-shirts (both parents worked there!), was an A student with perfect attendence, scored high enough on the PSAT to make it into the newspaper, was in good physical shape, had a girlfriend, and was fun to hang around. The last one, of course, IMHO, but I certainly had a ton of friends and was invited to more than my share of parties. The point is, I shared traits with people in almost all of those groups, and I was welcome almost everywhere I went. The friends I had then, and have now, were/are not simply "gaming buddies". I was certainly not in the gaming closet. In fact, I credit gaming for bringing together people who wouldn't otherwise have been friends at that time of their lives. And, IME, while life isn't always sweetness and light, gaming has always coalesced groups of people that otherwise wouldn't be together. I guess that's why I don't feel the need to go to Gen Con or other conventions......I've always felt more like a member of a community than like a member of a "gaming community". [/QUOTE]
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