Good Spouses

[barsoomcore]

My wonderful wife of six years (today!)

Congratulations! It will be six years for me and my sweetie come Aug 31st....

 

[Desdichado]

My wife's character can beat up your wife's character!

 

[d20Dwarf]

My girlfriend plays a most excellent gnome, and I'm very lucky to have such a sweet, beautiful gamer as a significant other.

What? This thread is about spouses? *looks around*

*runs away*

 

[tmaaas]

I'm another of those fortunate guys whose wife games. We enjoy making up worlds together.

I picked up one of these meteorite d20's at GenCon for her this year. It was great seeing her reaction as she realized what it was . . .

 

[grimwell]

Roleplay never really bit my wife hard enough to make her want to do it, but she tried a few times even before she met me.

Still, she more than tolerates it (my home is invaded weekly) and enjoys chatting with the gamers.

Can't think of a single reason to voice a word of complaint, sure she'd be fun to have at the table, but to be honest, I love her for just letting me be me.

 

[shouit]

My girlfriend likes to play. She is not all that into the books and stuff, but she gets ideas for characters, mostly fighters, and goes with it. She loves to kill things, she used to play Soul Reaver 2 just to watch the guy rip peoples heads off or impale them. Funny story is that she is trying something different, an elf ranger with a bow and she is soo used to running into combat, she is getting the crap kicked out of her. But, she is trying. Just my two cents...

 

[Hecatol]

My wife has accompanied me to GenCon for the past four years. This is our only "going away" vacation of the year, and she has never been into gaming. She never complains, no matter how many slots I sign up for or what redundant gaming gear and books I buy. The first couple of years I constantly worried that she would be bored and was just doing it to be nice, but she genuinely looks forward to it. Every year, she'll get a badge on her own and wander the exhibition hall, attend special events like the costume content, people watching, and just taking it easy at the Hyatt. On the plane back home this year, she was already looking forward to next year (and the change in scenery - it seems Indianapolis has better shopping opportunities for the non-gamer )

 

[Orco42]

I got my girlfriend into gaming with in a few weeks of seeing each other. After gaming for about 2 years she started reading a lot of HP Lovecraft.... I became worried. Then she started buying Chaosium stuff. I was getting frightened by this time, then I found a Pokethulu book she had hidden. A few months ago, at D&D session, she anounced she would run Pokethulu. We all thought it would be a one shot game, but we were very wrong. She had been expanding the rules on Pokethulu, adding an xp system, makeing dozens of 'thulu, and converting Choasium adventures to Pokethulu. She always have very well developed NPC's and spiffy props. It is one of the best games I have played in for a long time.

I think we shall have to call her Kid_Pokethulu.

 

[the Jester]

Well, I have a huge fear of commitment so don't have a "spouse" per se, but I do have an internet slut/kinky love slave... She doesn't game but wouldn't mind trying it and wants to be a gnome, when she was hanging out at my old pad she'd read various gaming resources if she got bored. She likes to hear my fiendish plans and seems to really pick up on and remember the ideas. I think the main reason she hasn't gamed yet is lack of confidence, and since I'm taking off to travel for a while very soon it seems an inopportune time to try to get her started (I'm our group's dm).

Maybe if I ever return this way....

 

[Dark Helmet]

Just a Gigolo

"Cause, I ain't got nobody
Nobody cares for me
Nobody, nobody cares for me
I'm so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet gamer mama
(goth-girl, renfair-wench)
Come and take a chance with me
Coz I ain't so bad"

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