Gaming and your Significant Other

[IronWolf]

My wife knows and is okay with it. She doesn't really get it though or understand the attraction. She sometimes thinks I spend a little too much time doing it (getting prepped for the next session, reading sourcebooks, etc.) But she is still supportive of the hobby.

 

[arwink]

My girlfriend games. We first met at a convention (where I was desperately pretending I wasn't interested in her because geeks hitting on girls at cons is just tacky), then played in a game together a couple of months later.

 

[Templetroll]

At the same game of D&D I met the woman who became my wife, a guy who was a future boss and a woman he also hired who ended up being my supervisor. Gaming has been very very good to me!

Our daughter game with us now.

 

[Arrgh! Mark!]

The girlfriend games. She even DM's!

Admittedly it took me perhaps a year before she became interested. While interested in fantasy and the like she felt a bit embarrassed coming forward to roleplay and was bored by the combat - basically sitting in the background doing nothing. It wasn't until I came back from my self-appointed DMing hiatus that she truly started to like playing. Not that I'm a good DM - she probably just felt more comfortable. She's used to me telling big fat outrageous lies.

It's one of those wasn't real good to start with, not exactly enthiusiastic first impression. Eventually I started really working her about her characters; with investment comes interest. After a little while of playing in short campaigns (Godlike - WW2 superheroes, Noir superheroes) in which there were only a few people, all of which she knew quite well did she start to enjoy the campaigns. As she's a transformers fan I bought her Mechamorphosis, which let her run a few games. She's currently working on a grand medium fantasy game using the Blue Rose system.

I find it interesting that it's rather common to see the females on the board to really not care about the rules at all - and in fact have some difficulty with it. I can see why rules aren't exactly important, but you do have to know them - especially to GM. Make the girls GM! They'll learn pretty quick. My GF didn't know (or care) for the rules until she realised what a monstrosly munched up character could do. She handles my need for cannons well, though

In an aside note, Mechamorphosis is the weirdest system I've ever glanced through.\


EDIT: When I say females on the board, I should say females *mentioned* on the board. For ones on this messageboard I wouldn't know.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Just makes me appreciate my wife all the more. As if I didn't appreciate her enough when she asked to see Reign of Fire on our anniversary a few years back -- after I'd told her that I was willing to go see anything, even the most horrifically mushy chick-flick she could find.

There's a down-side to that, of course.

... you had to watch Reign of Fire...

-Hyp.

 

[BSF]

My wife is good with me gaming. She even games with me when she can. With the birth of our newest daughter 7 months ago, she stopped for a while. She plans on returning though as the little one needs less mommy time.

 

[Ds Da Man]

While my wife doesn't game, she thinks it's cute I do, even more so when I break out my 80s geek glasses! Isn't she the great?

 

[Micah]

My husband and I DM a game together.

We figured it would be a lot of fun or that we'd need marriage counselling afterwards.

So far it's been a lot of fun.

Micah & tmaaas - DM's for the Liralen Irregulars.

 

[Gothic_Demon]

My wife started playing because I play, and now she makes time for me to DM and write adventures so she doesn't miss out on her favourite hobby. Even my older kids play!

 

[FireLance]

My wife used to game for a while (I got her interested when she was still my girlfriend), then the kids came and they took priority. Hopefully, once the youngest gets more independent, she'll be able to get back into gaming again.

In the meantime, I'm working on a solo campaign that will take a paladin from 1st to 20th level, and maybe even epic levels. She prefers playing paladins, you see.