Does your Spouse/Significant other game with you?

[shouit]

My fiancee games, but she will even admit to this, is a combat monster. I have never seen a woman with so much bent up aggression. I let her play Soul Reaver 2 and she kept calling me out to show how she impaled this guy or lop that guys head off. In a sick way, it is kinda cute.

She tends to play fighters. This time around she is playing a fighter with the intention of becoming a paladin. She has read Paksnarrion by Elizabeth Moon and wants to build that character.

 

[diaglo]

Originally posted by thud13x Does your Spouse/Significant other game with you?

shouldn't this get a Eric's Grandma warning?

that is a little TMI if you ask me.

but the answer is Yes and No.

 

[Quickbeam]

Not at the present time, but that may change soon. My wife enjoys the fantasy genre, but not to an overwhelming degree. Her moderate appreciation for the D&D world we game in, coupled with a somewhat tentative nature when it comes to the idea of roleplaying, has kept her away.

However, the release of d20 Modern and conversations with folks like Joshua Dyal have begun to erode her hesitancy. My wife loves the flavor of the d20M world; it's characters are more in tune with her thought processes; and hearing about couples gaming groups has piqued her level of interest. The hope here is that sometime in the next few months we'll join a couples d20M group, or start our own campaign with friends.

 

[robaustin]

We have 2 couples in our group of 7. Our DM, and his wife (a player) and another couple - both players. It works out well for them. My wife didn't want to play although she has played in the past. It's just too much for her to take time away from the daily routine for.

--*Rob

 

[megamania]

hee

we tried a few times but she dosen't get it and won't play anymore. To top it off, If I play more than twice a month I'm in the doghouse. Damned lucky for her I love her more than the game.....

 

[Davelozzi]

Yes, my wife plays in my regular D&D campaign, but hasn't shown much interest in playing any one-shots when I do that.

She really likes developing her character, so maybe she feels it wouldn't be as fun without a long-term character. I'm hoping that one of these days maybe she'll give it a whirl and find out that it can be a blast to play something different for a change. On the other hand, it could be that she just likes to give me some me time to do my own thing and her to do her own, which is understandable.

 

[barsoomcore]

My wife is a kick-ass gamer and fantasy freak who is in the process of writing a fantasy novel. I've read chunks of it and all I can say is it's unlike anything I've ever seen before. She's a genius.

I've killed two of her characters -- which makes her the record-holder for Barsoom. She has started talking about running her own campaign set in the world she's creating for her novel. I can hardly wait. It's grim and disturbing and WAY COOL.

said by thud13x
But, hey she has to be cool, she married me after all.

Well, it's great that you think so. For my part, I admit to no failing in my wife whatsoever -- except possibly her taste in men...

But hey, that's a failing I'm more than happy to overlook!

 

[Murrdox]

I'm lucky as hell to have a finacee who loves to game. The amusing thing was that I had to try very very hard on our first date NOT to mention D&D or gaming in general in fear of driving her off. The first time I let it slip, she just said "So when are we playing?" I think my jaw hit the floor.

Anyways, her latest charcter is quite amusing... she finds gold dragons to be irresistably cute... so she desperately wanted a character with a gold dragon companion... so I said sure. Presto, we have a lvl 1 druid with a wyrmling gold dragon. Of course, the gold dragon isn't a true animal companion, per say... more of an NPC.

She also played a Paladin who was obsessed with one day becoming powerful enough to aquire "carnal knowledge" of her God.

 

[Mordane76]

No... much to my chagrin.

She even likes most of the PC/PS2 RPGs I play, and has played a few that I won't touch. But she's slowly coming to the Dark Side; we have a female gamer in our group, and she offered to teach my wife the game... she's slowly running out of breathing room, and I'll have her in my gaming clutches yet!

(AUDIBLE SNAP)

Sorry dear... I got carried away...

I'll be a bit happier if she'd give it a try -- she's actually LARPed in the World of Darkness before, and she enjoyed doing that. I wonder if she's not afraid of me and my gaming style...

 

[Psion]

My wife is more or less a "social gamer" -- she'll play more to be part of the activity than for the game itself. She's not playing with our current high level game, as she said all the high level play is too much for her. But she has a character in the low level game that we should be getting back to soon.