Are you out of the D&D closet?

[Some guy from Ohio]

uh oh! I apologize to you Someguy. I didn't realize I was taking your name for part of mine. It figures that I change my name on my first day on the new boards and get the biggest response to one of my threads that I ever had and everybody gets to see that I can't come up with an original screen name. "Doh!"

 

[ProfAnime]

Well, I guess I am relatively out of the closet. No I do not go around shouting it from the rooftops, but I do leave my books hanging around the house, including the bookshelf of them downstairs next to the computer. As well as take them with me to work so I can have something to read while I shirk my tech duties I also have a few D&D t-shirts that I like to wear, so people can figure it out that way.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Heh.

My current girlfriend is one of two women I've dated in 12 years who has known that I game. She makes fun of me for it in a friendly way, but dang does it feel good to not hide it from her.

 

[Wicht]

Personally, I have too many books to be hiding in my DnD closet - it would be cramped.

I have played for around 18 years and I have never hid it. Why be a hypocrite? I am a conservative Christian but I know the difference between fantasy and reality and can explain that difference lucidly to anyone who ask.

In fact I went to a conservative Christian college and we regularly played in our dorm rooms. It was never an issue. We did try to push for getting our group in the year-book but that never happened Fact is, my best friends in college (and guys I regularly gamed with) were preachers kids and they had played for many years. In fact, I was one of the groom's men at one's wedding and for his bachelor party his brother bought Warhammer Quest and I ran the game for them. Its only as big a deal as you want it to be.

 

[MythandLore]

DnD?
That game's the work of the Devil!
I must tell NO ONE I play it!

 

[Arachne]

my husband ALSO plays......its SO nice to be able to share reality AND fantasy with him....

 

[EOL]

Depends on the Audience

I find that it depends greatly on the audience. It's generally not the first thing I'll mention, but anybody I know for long enough will eventually get the 96 point GenCon critical story (without power attack I might add...)

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

I'm not at all embarrassed by playing D&D or letting people know that I play. People can go fornicate themselves if they have issues with me playing. Now, I don't go around telling every person that I come into contact with that I game, because that's just kinda weird. I'm not really into wearing nerd/gaming shirts outside of my home or places where I'm gaming, but I really don't care all that much. My girlfriend has no problem with it--though she does like to poke fun at me for it--and no one in my family does either. Religious zealots that get in my face (thankfully none have) would either be ignored or yelled at for being foolish.

Enough rambling though! My point is that if the subject comes up, I'll gladly talk about D&D or other RPGs, but it's not something I use to start conversations with.

 

[Hand of Vecna]

Pretty much all mt friends know, and have known, that I'm a Gamer, as do most of my co-workers. 'Course, the fact that I work at a college library tends to make my co-workers a bit more open-minded than others, if for no other reason than RPG's require (lots of) books & reading skill...

 

[Holy Bovine]

Well all of my friends ARE gamers (at least to some degree - I count people I play Scabble with as gamers too!). I will tell someone I play D&D if they ask about hobbies but I wouldn't go into details unless they really seemed interested.

Oh, I also met my fiancee/common-law wife through gaming. A mutual friend had her join the Warhammer Roleplay campaign I was running and we hit it off and well....


We still play (D&D now) with our friends every Sunday we can spare. One of our players even drives 2 hours to get there! I fell like giving him XP just for showing up