Does your spouse/significant other game with you?

[reveal]

I have read a lot of posts on here, and on other boards, about spouses/significant others who "tolerate" their partners hobby.

I have also read a posts about spouses/significant others who game with their partners, though I see a lot less of those.

In my case, I actually gamed before I met my wife and, after we were married, brought in her in and made her ONE OF US(tm). We now game regularly.

What are your experiences in this realm?

 

[Belen]

I convinced my wife to start gaming only a few months after we started dating. She was the GM of our last campaign!

 

[Morrow]

My wife hasn't played any rpgs since long before we met, but recently she has become interested again. She has been encouraging me to start a new campaign, and wants to play.

Morrow

 

[Laurel]

If not for him I wouldn't be here now

My in less then 100 days husband was actually the one to really introduce me to gaming. I had always loved the sic-fi fantasy genre, but always thought gaming a little weird.. but it was a big part of his life, so I tried it. First he started me on computer games -most were too complex, but then I got hooked on Diablo 2. Having achieved that hurdle- I on my own wanted to try the book, pen and paper RPG style. I had a horrible first experience, but then found our current DM and group and I now understand how and why this has lasted so long

I think gaming with your significant other can really add to the game.

I have seen the other side with one of my close friends though. They have worked it out and she makes sure she things to do during his gaming time. Though it may not work for him to have this whole side she doesn't get, it does give them both a day to do whatever that the other person has no interest in... so it works for them.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

Well, I answered that I "introduced her to gaming" because I technically did. But really, she was looking to start gaming before we met, and it was actually that desire to try roleplaying that led us to meet.

See, she stopped in the local gamestore/comic shop to talk to the owner, Linda, about local gaming groups that would be interested in having a new gamer for about a summer - before she went back to college.

Linda introduced her to my friend Conrad, who was part of the group that played in my mother's basement - in my defense, it was a finished family room, complete with pool table, but still a basement. The first day we met and gamed we got along, but I tried not to pay too much attention to her, as Conrad was very interested in her.

The second time we met, she walked up the stairs of my house wearing really tight jeans (she was a very slender and curvy 20 year old, you see, and was a threater major at the time), and I said "Conrad who?" and a few months later we were engaged.

Now, she games more often than I do, and ran a terrific game of Oriental Adventures d20.

Patrick Y.

 

[Alaxk Knight of Galt]

No, she'll never play. In fact, she tends to make fun of me for playing these games. She is certain that I will grow out of them one day, little does she know ( he he he )

 

[~Johnny~]

Back before we got married, I ran my then-fiancee Beverly through a mini-adventure to help her understand my weird hobby. The adventure used d20 Modern, and a near-future version of herself. I even started her off by writing a story for her!

The adventure involved her little sister being (nearly) murdered, which definitely got her attention. As she went through it, she discovered that her sister was a secret agent, she and her sister were both genetically-enhanced, intended all along to be spies.

She said had a lot of fun, but looking back, I railroaded way too much. She hasn't asked to play again since then, but at least she understands the hobby!

 

[diaglo]

my wife and i roleplay all the time....

IYKWIMAITYD

 

[BlackMoria]

No, my significant other has absolutely not interest in playing RPGs, despite my best efforts to convince her to at least give it a try.

She asks me when I intend to grow up.....*sigh*

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I introduced my wife to gaming, but it was something she had been interested in before we met. When she was a kid her brother brought home a copy of the Basic Set. He never ended up playing it, but my wife was always curious about it. When we met and started dating she found out I played, but was at the time between gaming groups. Because of her own curiosity about the game she didn't have the negative reaction to gaming that is all too often encountered. Eventually when I hooked back up with a gaming group I convinced her to try it out. She decided she did not want to play a character that killed so I helped her create an elven Enchantress who would be a pacifist. During our first adventure at one point the rest of the party was taken down and she was the only one left. Forced to defend herself she killed the last creature with her dagger and found a sudden bloodlust that overtook her. She hasn't played anything close to a pacifist since.

That said, she does not have the same burning passion for gaming I do. She thinks its a fun diversion occasionally, and only plays in one group that gets together pretty infrequently. But because she understands the game and my love of it, she does not mind me getting another group going that will play more regularly while she watches the kids.

Eleven years this past weekend and still going strong