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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PowerWordDumb" data-source="post: 1027668" data-attributes="member: 8614">It was fascinating though, Djeta...  My fiancee always gives me a funny look when I'm about to head off gaming, that I've come to associate with a mixture of interest and fear.  I've invited her several times in the past to come along and see what it's all about (as it's rather difficult to just describe cold to someone who doesn't know), but she's always shrugged that off and claimed she's not really that interested.Now I'm wondering just what experiences she's had with creepy people or bigots that may have turned her off the hobby without ever trying it.  Granted I was a really geeky kid, so the strangeness that some gamers are famous for never bothered me, but perhaps that was part of what turned her off.  I should say that your story of growing disenchantment with the roleplayers you were exposed to was almost exactly the inverse of my experience growing up.  Typically it was the people into fashion, music, and "being cool" who were the most judgemental, while the gaming crowd was always very accepting and open-minded.  It's sad you had the experiences you did which kept you away from a fun hobby and interesting people.I'm really interested now to go home and have a conversation about this, because I know she loves the same kind of epic fantasy movies as I do, she's read LOTR several times, and she's got a wonderful imagination so I know she's got the basic tools to be a good roleplayer.  Perhaps it's just a collection of misperceptions that's keeping her from enjoying another part of my life with me.Something to think about, anyways.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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