Do you read D&D books on public transport?

[Piratecat]

The closest I've been to reading a D&D book on public transit is Mike Mearls' books on airships. I'm not sure if they qualify as public transit, though. Maybe Eberron will have elemental-powered trains that qualify.

What?

 

[Luddite]

Most the time when I was taking public transit regularly, it was usualy durring rush hour. Anything larger then a small paperback or folded up newspaper would of gotten nasty looks for "taking up too much space."

When not durring rush hour type loads, I may only be on a subway train for about 10 to 15 minutes. Not realy enough time to pull out a big book and wade through it.

However, when taking long-haul trains (ie like the LIRR) I would read game books. There I had the time and the space.

-The Luddite

 

[shilsen]

The only public transport I tend to take is the train to/from my D&D games and I'll invariably be reading one of the books at some point on the journey. Haven't noticed any funny looks yet, and frankly would be mildly amused if I did.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

The bus and subway in Montreal is usually too crowded (especially at rush hour) for people to try and read a big hardcover book. I usually read ordinary paperback novels... or the guy next to me's paper

AR

 

[Voadam]

The closest I've been to reading a D&D book on public transit is Mike Mearls' books on airships. I'm not sure if they qualify as public transit, though. Maybe Eberron will have elemental-powered trains that qualify.

What?

True, the airships ones are not D&D, they are d20, but I think that would count in the informal parlance of a D&D message board.

 

[francisca]

I don't ride public transportation. But I do take Dragon and KoDT to work now and then. And wear my GenCon t-shirt. Don't get any comments. Hell, D&D even gets mentioned in side comments during staff meetings by people who don't even play.

I teach part-time at Purdue, well for a few more days, anyway, I'm done this semester. I once bumped into a couple of my students in the FLGS. Stunned does not begin to express the way they looked. Speechless, too. Wish I had a camera with me. They never made eye-contact with me again, inside or outside of class. Dunno if they were freaked because I saw them in a game store and "outed" them (they were drooling over the BoVD), or if I just ruined gaming for them because their old-man of an instructor plays too. Kids. <sigh>

 

[Orius]

So what about you? Do you proudly display your RPG stuff in public places (at work, of course, might be a different matter), or are you more discreet?

Hell, no. I might as well tattoo geek across my forehead.

 

[Sam]

I'm on public transportation way too much. I take a commuter rail (LIRR) into NYC and then the subway (MTA Subway) to my office. I'm on public transportation about two hours a day. I have to admit, I hardly ever read D&D related material on the train. If I do, it's generally an RPGA module, which is a printout, so it doesn't look like your typical D&D product. The other thing that I might read is a published module/event. I get most of my reading prep for Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil done on the train, and I get some strange looks for that. I wouldn't want to think about the looks I'd get for reading the 3.5 DMG or Savage Species or Draconomicon.

I don't particularly hide the fact that my wife and I game. I just don't publicize it. My non-gaming friends know we have a standing game every friday night. I haven't told anyone at work though. Just would be too much to go into with them.

 

[Dr Awkward]

I ALWAYS have a gaming book of some kind with me. I don't use public transportation, but I am never found without something game related, no matter where I am. (Okay, there may be SOME exceptions...)

Funny related story that just happened - a co-worker walked through my office today and scooped up my new issue of Dungeon from my desk, then started walking around my office while flipping through it and talking to people. She has a habit of this - just browsing at pictures in a magazine while she talks. She honestly had no idea what she was looking at, but didn't really have a problem with it.

She walked all over the office with it in hand, then brought it back to me, and I told her that she just painted herself as the biggest geek in the office now - even bigger than ME - for strolling around the office while reading a Dungeons & Dragons magazine.

The best part is that she completely saw the humor in this, and we both had a good laugh.

- DocAwk

 

[Desdichado]

I've been geeking too long to be insecure about it any more -- I have officially crossed the line into the "eccentric" category

You can only be eccentric if your rich. Which, for all I know, you might well be.