Hardcore gamers

[Quasqueton]

I've known several people to pass up immediate sex to go to their game. ["Sweetheart, why didn't you offer last night? Why don't you keep it in mind for tomorrow night?"]

In college, one of my Players was hit by a car (he was riding a bicycle) and still came straight to the game. [He didn't even call the police because, "It was my own fault."] No apparent broken bones, but plenty of blood. We used up half a roll of paper towels staunching the bleeding. Only delayed the game about 30 minutes.

What's your best hardcore gamer example?

Quasqueton

 

[Henry]

I got involved in a car-wreck on the way to my D&D game back in 1997; on my way from work, I was rear-ended, which made me rear-end the guy I was stopped in traffic in front of; some nasty crunch-damage to both bumpers, but othewise all right. After I gave the police report, I drove my crunched car to the game, an hour late, because there was no way I was missing it with the stress I had just sustained.

 

[diaglo]

What's your best hardcore gamer example?

i know this guy, the Jester on ENWurld, who travelled the country on a Greyhound bus so he could game for fun.

he stayed with complete strangers.

i know he crashed at my place twice.

 

[loki44]

I had a friend who drove from L.A. to Chicago and back for one night of gaming.

 

[jokamachi]

I wouldn't have believed this one if I hadn't heard his friends confirm it for me, but I once knew a guy who waited to finish up a major battle before joining his wife at the hospital for the delivery of their second child.

And as for the sex thing... well, yes, I have had girlfriend(s) who have used the lure of sensual delight to keep me at home as opposed to playing D&D. Sometimes I'd take them up on it, then dash off to the game, anyway. Needless to say, I leveled up twice that day.

 

[diaglo]

i convinced my wife to camp out with me to see the D&D movie so i could be one of the first to see it.

diaglo "i still owe her" Temporado

 

[Crothian]

I choose gaming over one girlfriend and that spelled the end of that relationship.

 

[TheEvil]

The nice thing about having a spouse who games includes not having to choose between sex and gaming...

My worst would have been in high school. I was rushing to a game and T-boned a pickup truck that had pulled out in front of me and stopped. I was driving a four-wheeler. This messed up the front of the four-wheeler and did some not nice things to my chest and throat, though no serious damage. After everything was sorted out, I went to the game. No trip to the hospital for me!

 

[niolo]

I should have been studying for Law School final exams but instead gamed a couple days before the first exam of the semester for 2 days in a row. The grade for a law school class is based solely upon the final exam...if it is a craptastic performance on the final, you get a craptastic grade. I passed but it wasn't my better semester ;-)

 

[Henry]

I'm waiting for the story "I lost my home and a major limb, and still went to game that day." Whoever does that one honestly is the winner of this sad little contest.