Do you consider yourself a hardcore gamer or casual?

[Imaro]

Just wondering which, if either do the posters here see themselves as. Are you hardcore or just casual. Oh yeah, and why? The list below isn't all inclusive, but just a few of the things I think seperate one from the other.

Hardcore:
1. You have read the corebooks plus any books you use outside of core thoroughly.
2. You have a level of mastery with said rules
3. You devote time outside of necessary preperation to pondering the game, fiddling with rues etc.


Casual:
1. You know enough to get by, either as a player or adequate DM.(usually have to reference the books about some common things)
2. Outside of "game time" you do little preperation.
3. Rarely think about rules modification or tinkering with the game.

 

[blargney the second]

By those definitions, I'm neither casual nor hardcore. I just lost my gamer status!

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Hardcore. Roleplaying - not just D&D, of course, but roleplaying games in general - is my primary hobby.

For instance, the first seven buttons on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar right now are:

• The official D&D website
• The official D&D forums
• The official Eberron forums
• The EN World forums
• Circvs Maximvs
• RPGnet Forums
• My Gaming bookmark folder, with twenty-four more bookmarks related to roleplaying and two more sub-folders with even more bookmarks.

Not to mention a bookmark for the SUTEKH forums, and other gaming-related things like the Bad RPers Suck community on LiveJournal.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Your Powers Are Weak

I just lost my gamer status!

You mean, you're not an ELITE gamer?

Darth Asad is Sithcore!

 

[Piratecat]

I consider myself somewhere in between -- I have a lot of other outside interests -- but I love the game way too much to be anything but hardcore.

 

[Kralin Thornberry]

I think I'm going to have to go w/ Pirate Cat on this one. With all of my outside interests and stuff, I don't actually have time to be "hardcore" anymore (I was back in the day though!), but I'm more than casual.

 

[Zaruthustran]

I think anyone who is so into the game that they've registered for and post on a D&D message board, is demonstrably a hardcore gamer. So everyone able to vote on this poll should be

Piratecat, I mean... you run a D&D message board. You've made over sixteen thousand posts. You, sir, are hardcore.

-z

 

[Agamon]

Hmmm. So to be a hardcore gamer, you need to master D&D rules? I'd consider myself a hardcore gamer, but my definition of gamer not only expands beyond D&D, but beyond RPGs, too.

According to the poll, I'm somewhere in between.

 

[Tuzenbach]

In the 80's I was truly hardcore.

These days, with literally hundreds of rules/books (from feats to prestige classes to 3rd party pdfs to whatever), I'm almost too intimidated to even attempt to learn 3E.

And, with 4E looming, why should I even bother to learn 3E?

 

[KB9JMQ]

I would say that I am slightly less than hardcore.