Does your Spouse/Significant other game with you?

[The Grey Dwarf]

Yep!

My wife games with me.

She started playing in '84.
So far, she played at D&D, Elric, CoC, Rêve de Dragon, 1e, 2e, 3e, Paranoïa, Warhammer FRPG

We generally play in the same campaigns.

 

[Taloras]

Nope. Why? cuz im single. none of my g/fs have been interested in D&D either......and where i live i havent seen a single female gamer (and im in a city, OKC)

 

[Barastrondo]

My wife likes my campaign more than I do. And it's not because I don't like my campaign. She's just my homebrew world's number one fan, and it brings her great joy to either help me design a new corner of it out-of-game, or to be surprised by some new place or character or thing in-game. Our tastes in fantasy are very similar, so our play styles match really well.

The drawback is that she's much harsher on her fellow players than I am. If a player tries to bring in something that seems out of synch with the world, I'm much more patient in working with them than she is (she claims I'm too much of a pushover). Don't mention psionics around our table...

 

[shadoe]

My wife started gaming after we metMy wife started gaming after we met in college. It was more of a to be with me kind of thing than anything else at that time. Now after going through our third group I think she is starting to enjoy it more. Also just recently she discovered Diablo II and has gotten pretty hooked on that.

Soon her trip to the dark side will be complete.

 

[thud13x]

Dark Side?

Why does everybody keep mention bring wife/SO to the Dark Side?

I thought Gaming was good. It can't be naughty, it just can't!



Or can it?

<Cue Dramatic Music>
*Starts humming out loud: Dum-Dum-Dumm!*

 

[Desdichado]

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.

And we still need to try and get her together to play some X-files-ish game soon. Unfortunately, the only really "hardcore" gamer wife in our group is the one who's moving away for six months!

 

[mythago]

Why does everybody keep mention bring wife/SO to the Dark Side?

Because you think it's a great idea, until your friends say "Uh...we have a gaming slot open, but do you think your wife could play instead?"

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I met my current bf in a D&D group, but we didn't start dating until after I'd left the group. I've recently lured him into one of the groups I run, but he's a much less hard core gamer than I am - hasn't made it to any of the tuesday night one shots I proctor and backed out on going to arisia with me. (because 'I won't actually be going with you, you'll be in the game room all weekend running stuff!')

He's also a pure D&D type, I'm gonna have to get him to play GURPS eventually.

Kahuna Burger

 

[Olive]

my girlfriend plays with me, which is nice and makes it easy to play in our lounge. We have two woman gamers int he group whihc is cool.

at the same time, she still makes fun of me for being a geek. which is a bit wierd, given that she does almost all the geeky things i do now.

 

[National Acrobat]

Nope!

My wife doesn't, hasn't and never will. She understands that it is important to myself and my friends, and that is all that matters to her.