Does your Spouse/Significant other game with you?

[Buttercup]

My husband and I game together. He plays in my campaign, and we both play in a T20 game run by one of my players. He's not too terribly good at the rules yet (see my thread about teaching new players) but he's having a good time.

I love this hobby, and I would keep playing even if he didn't want to anymore, but it's so nice having him at the table. But then, I think everything is more fun if he's with me. Love is funny that way.

 

[Rel]

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.

Tell your wife thanks for the compliment.

What is really funny is that just 5 minutes ago I was rocking our 18 month old daughter before putting her down for her nap. My wife was lying down on the couch just a few feet away with her slippered feet propped up on some pillows.

My daughter pointed over there and said, "Feet." But with the pacifier in her mouth it came out as "Geet."

"Yes," I said, "Mommy is a Geek."



"True Nerd Love" is a wonderful thing.

 

[mythago]

Aw!

 

[Maerdwyn]

My wife will play anything but tabletop RPGS. She likes "Once Upon a Time" quite a bit, enjoys all manner of board games, especially German ones. (I don't play Diplomacy or other backstabbing games with her though - too many post-game consequences). She likes CRPGs, and her favorite of those has been Torment. Just can't get her to make that final step, and pick up a set of dice...

 

[Mercule]

(I don't play Diplomacy or other backstabbing games with her though - too many post-game consequences).

Heh. We love the Machiavellian games best. We're both very competitive and it's a great way to blow off steam. I still remember playing a game of Monopoly years ago with some non-nerd friends. They thought we were going to kill each other. Now, we just stick to "our own kind" and everyone plays bloody, but nobody takes it seriously.

It also makes a nice test for anyone who starts dating one of the crew. If they can make it through a game of "Samuri Swords", "Settlers of Catan", or even Hearts, they just might last.

 

[El Seso]

Yeah, my girl plays. Met her in the group, too.
She loves CRPGs, also. Just sat her down and made her play through the first act of NwN, and she's mad at me now that she's addicted.

 

[johnsemlak]

My wife plays I think she realized how important gaming is to me and decided to give it a try. But she does enjoy playing.

 

[GenLang]

When SOs game...

There's three sets of SOs in my gaming circle (including my household).

Even trying to begin to describe the tangled and intertwined gaming threads running through our gaming circle would take a lot of explanation, but suffice it to say that for every set of SOs, one or both are GMs in a game the other plays in, and all works out well. Not too much snuggliness for people's comfort, no shows of major favorite-itis going on (it IS a side effect of living together and having more communication time to have a better GM/player understanding, it happens to all of us in the games)

I don't mind running games that my SOs play in (yes, multiple. Long story), and I don't mind running games that have SOs playing together. It's vaguely annoying sometimes with one of the couples I game with, if one's in a game the other *has* to be in the game, too, but that's only annoying because I don't particularly like large groups

 

[Seule]

Monday night D&D game: No couples.

Tusday Night Game: 3 couples, 1 married 4.5 years (me), one married 1.5 years, 1 dating 7 years.

Wednesday Night Game: 2 couples (married from above).

Thursday Night Game: 1 couple, dating 1 year.

Friday night game (mine): 3 couples (all from above).


The only married or long term dating friend I had who was with a non-gamer divorced a couple of years ago. Most of my friends have gaming SOs (just looking for 2 really great guys.. any volunteers? ), and most couples (not all) game together at least part of the time.

My wife and I met at a gaming convention about 8 years ago, and again a year later at a friend's party of all gamers. We like some different games (she's a huge Amber fan) and we have different styles. Recently, I've finally convinced her to try running games occasionally. I couldn't imagine being with someone who didn't game. It's both our prime (but not only) hobby, and we share it together. She plays in the same games with me Tuesday (where she runs biweekly), Wednesday, and Friday.
I have noticed that it is primarily the female gamers in our games who demand at the beginning of sessions on Friday nights that there had better be combat, or real blood will flow. My wife also plays a big thumpy Half-Orc Paladin who is the front line on her own, on the alternate Tuesdays that she doesn't run.

Life is good.

--Seule

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Even though both our kids play, and I DM the game where they play, my wife won't even play a quick one-shot game just for grins. Her loss. Well, actually, the game's loss; I think she'd be really good at it.