Ever roleplay elsewhere in your life?

[boerngrim]

One time about ten years ago some friends and I did a kind of weird roleplay in public. We were all gamers and just did it for a lark. There were 2 guys in the Army who were both pretty burly and buff who played the role of bodygaurds in suits, a lovely young lady in a form fitting red dress who made excellent arm candy, and me in dark suit with my hair slicked back as the client or boss if you like. We walked into this casual dining restaurant with the 2 "bodyguards" scanning the room, checking the exits... the whole nine. All I had to do was scowl a lot, and "pretend" to enjoy the attentions of the lovely young lady. I didn't speak to the server directly, I had one of my "bodyguards" order for all of us, and settle the check. I don't know why we did it, but it was kind of fun to watch people watching us, trying to figure out who I was supposed to be.

As an aside. The lovely young lady and I had an all too brief, but memorable (at least to me) intimate relationship. During our relationship sometimes when we were intimate she liked to roleplay as one of her characters and have me roleplay as an NPC she had encountered in game. She had a thing for a certain evil serpenty moonelf from Waterdeep. Weird but true.

 

[Himoura]

"Makes you wonder what the 'creepy guy, who always plays a hot elf chick' does when he isn't playing D&D."

lol as a self professed 'creepy guy always plays a hot elf chick', rest assured that I quiet often play female characters in computer games as well as MUDs and MUSHs, but not in my day to day life

 

[howandwhy99]

Ah, yes, the Stranger by Billy Joel summed it up nicely.

So you're Hong? That's all kinds of self-self-referencesness.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I remember hearing about a troupe of performers who created surreal situations in real world environments purely for amusement sake. For example, a couple might play out an argument in a coffee shop, storm out, and then immediately return and repeat the argument verbatim, then do it over and over and over again.

Improv Everywhere: The Moebius.

-Hyp.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

I role play all the time, everywhere (when i feel comfortable). people call me weird or strange, but hay, im just being me... as someone else...

 

[Numion]

Once travelling in asia I talked to people who knew nothing about Finland, so I pretended to be a polar bear hunter.

 

[GwydapLlew]

Other than pretending to be German to avoid a bum in New Orleans (and then finding out he was an ex-pat from Berlin ), not much. The occasional romp in the bed and such, but otherwise nope!

 

[Torm]

I used to write some Star Trek fan fiction, and the captain aboard my Enterprise (NCC-170100) was Captain Sara Chandler.

I used to be in a religious discussion mailing list, and one of the women in it also ran a list for "Pagan Warrior Women." She frequently made sexist statements and went out of her way to take anything anyone said (especially me, it seemed) as anti-semetic, no matter how apologetic and/or explanatory the person in question was.

So one day, after a particularly nasty round of this, "Sara Chandler" joined her other group. I played her entirely true to character, right down to being a naval captain - I just never specified what navy, or mentioned the species of any of the people I sometimes referred to interacting with.

My intention was to spend some time in her list and show that I did, in fact, understand where she was coming from - but after a little over a year I kinda lost interest in pretty much ALL the mailing lists I was on and unsubbed. Probably just as well - it was deceptive, and she probably would have just taken it as an attack of some kind, anyway.

Admittedly I was probably the only one playing a pretend role. It was fun.

Hmmm .... "she" ..... "DM" ...... sounds kinda dominating ....

Ms. Frost?!

"Blackleaf .... NO!!!!!"

 

[hong]

No, I really am Hong.

 

[Merkuri]

I used to make up stories to amuse myself up until college, and sometimes I would act out character soliloquies in private, like in the shower. I stopped when a roomate walked in on me acting out a dramatic death scene in the college bathroom (which had been empty except for me until then) and thought I was sick. I nervously explained to her what I was doing, but it seemed to be such an alien concept to her that she thought I was trying to cover up some serious illness or drug addiciton or something.

THAT was embarrasing.