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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2178577" data-attributes="member: 463">I think I'm fairly tolerant, and I wouldn't claim to be not a geek, but there are several types of people I wouldn't want in my house where I GM, including druggies and people who smell bad and reek the place up.  People who are extremely fat (American fat, not just British fat) could also be a problem since I have small chairs & limited space at my gaming table.  I guess this puts me on the same side as Teflon Billy on this (*eek*).  Also no smoking in the house - my wife smokes outside, any smoking players do too.  Also (& I suspect unlike TB) I prefer no swearing at the game table; though I'll swear often enough at the pub I don't when I GM, I think it makes a better atmosphere.  I do have a new player who swears and I haven't told him not to, I guess it's a minor point but I'm trying to lead by example.  <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=":)" />I'm not sure how socially aberrant it is to be a virgin at 23 (which was when I met my future wife) - I was an undergrad at Oxford, 70% male,  where most of the guys in my class (Law) were virgins at 18 when we started and still virgins at 21 when we graduated.  OTOH with that 70/30 ratio the girls certainly weren't virgins for long.  This didn't seem to make them any happier than the rest of us though, most of them seemed to feel they'd been taken advantage of by the predatory older male students & postgrads.</blockquote>

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