Does your Spouse/Significant other game with you?

[mythago]

at the same time, she still makes fun of me for being a geek.

"Who is geekier--the geek, or the one who games with him?"

 

[Mercule]

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.

*chuckle*

My wife, too. There are still legends of her Vampire character floating about. We like to say that she spent Humanity like blood and the truth is that I think she seriously did mark off more points of Humanity than all the other characters in all the other Vampire games I've run added together.

She eventually turned around (after watching some Sabbat play), but the association stuck. To this day, if anyone appears intent on giving her grief, someone will warn, "Careful, Shannon's in there somewhere."

She tends to play a lot of fighters, too.

 

[Mercule]

at the same time, she still makes fun of me for being a geek.

Strangely enough, there have always been a fair number of reasonably attractive, apparently normal women who hung out with my (admittedly nerdy) group. Sometime back in college, someone decided to dub them "the Nerdettes".

The original "team" of Nerdettes has moved on, but the word is still thrown out periodically.

 

[Rel]

My wife likes to game. I am currently running a solo campaign for her. It is tough to game in any other format because we have a child so we generally play some evenings after the baby is put to bed.

But tomorrow I am starting to run a RttToEE campaign featuring THREE other couples (as well as 3 more guys whose wives don't game).

 

[Olive]

"Who is geekier--the geek, or the one who games with him?"

this is getting thrown back at her next time. thanks.

 

[jgbrowning]

yep

yes, my wife games with me. she like thieves.


joe b.

 

[jgbrowning]

My wife likes to game. I am currently running a solo campaign for her. It is tough to game in any other format because we have a child so we generally play some evenings after the baby is put to bed.

My wife just wants you to know that you now are a "sweet guy" and you have "true nerd love."

that is of course, a compliment.

joe b.

 

[WanderingMonster]

My wife has gamed with me for years. She used to be a social gamer, but now she admits to liking it. She's actually cracked books open for her own interest!

It helps that we're great friends, and nothing is really as much fun if I can't do it with her.

 

[Skarp Hedin]

Alas, not my wife. She's tried it, but doesn't seem to like it very much.

Too bad, really.. but maybe she'll try again someday.

 

[Nellisir]

My fiance doesn't game, but she knew I did when we started going out and it's never been a problem. (And vice-versa; I never complain about her playing volleyball 1-2 nights a week, or coaching volleyball 5 evenings a week for 3 months, or taking our dog to canine agility 1 night a week...it's all just more time to work on my campaign!) We read alot of the same books and watch the same movies; but the whole role-playing thing never clicked for her.

Cheers
Nell.