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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4745921" data-attributes="member: 54846">Me and my mother have a running joke. Because once she asked, "So how do you win?" and I replied, "You don't really 'win'." So now, any time I come home from gaming, she'll ask me "So, did you win?" to see what my response is.I don't talk about it in detail (as Akaiku says, it's all Greek), but I'll proudly admit I play RPGs. To non-gamers, they just go, "Oh," nod their head, and the non-gaming convo continues. I figure that, they all ready think I'm a dork, tabletop gaming can't really make them think less of me.Besides, the way I look at it, the Internet is mainstream. World of Warcraft is pretty much in the mainstream, at least acknowledged as such, and tabletop RPGs are just one further step down the Path of the Geek, that they're not viewed as social freakishness.I do feel self-conscious talking about gaming to other gamers in front of non-gamers. And playing? That's one big source of neurotic right there. Now, there are other things that I'm a part of that I treat with the Cone of Secrecy, believe you me. But, gaming is not one of them.You sir are a god among geeks.Or maybe an exarch. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>