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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 2440965" data-attributes="member: 8394">Not everyody is devoted to gaming in this sense though. I play RPG's occasionally, when I'm not doing any number of other things. I can't say I'm really committed to them to the extent that the thought of talking about my games specifically or RPG's in general to random people excites me. Even here on ENWorld I skip threads that consist of people gushing about their characters, homebrews and so on. RPG's are fun, and some people obviously get really into them and would like nothing more than to tell you all about their characters and nothing about themselves, but I personally find this a little weird. It's nothing to do with being ashamed of gaming or fear of persecution--I've still had plenty of conversations about gaming with all kinds of people, when it actually came up as relevant to what we were talking about--it's purely a matter of priorities. I game, but gaming is not a big deal and it certainly isn't a disproportionately large part of my life.I don't consider it a bad thing either. But do I want to hang out with you, or even be associated with you? If RPG's, your character in Tuesday's game, your homebrew or whatever are hot topics of conversation, probably not.What's the biggest FLGS in Sacramento? I went to I think it was Great Escape Games a few times back toward the end of highschool (c. 1998), but gave it up because those just weren't my kind of people. I skipped the first NorCal gameday back in 2001 or so when they decided to hold it there, actually.</blockquote>

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