Hardcore gamers

[Psion]

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?"]

Heh. If you've got the time and the bandwidth, check out this video (at least I hope it's the right one... can't check from here...)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1329362959167995041

 

[Just_Hal]

My story isn't as hardcore as some others, but here it is. We usually game on Saturdays because that is the only day everyone has off. Well, one Saturday, the person who owned the house that we gamed at announced that he had to move the next Saturday and we wouldn't be able to game. Not game? we said. So we ended up spending the day moving him from his old house to an apartment (divorce does that) and gamed afterwards. Of course, it was the hottest day of the year (August in Florida) and my car didn't have A/C. Plus, the game sucked afterwards... :\

What he did not mention was I paid for said food and he owns every MEG game available and has/had a huge resource of gaming books here while we played.....that is if I knew the person he was speaking about.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Our group's DM shares an aparment with his father. A few weeks back we showed up to game and discovered the DMs brother and family had come for a visit, unannounced, right before the game. We couldn't find an alternative site to game so we played on. Apparently he and his brother don't get along and many little snide comments were made throughout the evening about gaming. Their younger son was obviously interested in the game and kept coming into the kitchen and lingering, but his parents didn't appreciate him doing that and yelled at him each time they caught him doing it.

Not hardcore, but definitely awkward.

 

[mcrow]

Hmm, best I got is that Omrob's car was stolen about a week and a half ago. His biggest concern: 'Crap, my gaming stuff was in there!!'

yeah, I had that happen to me once. Some idiot stole my saturn and I had trunk load of WH40k and RPGing stuff. It was around $2000 worth of stuff, almost more than the car was worth. I was definitely more pissed about my gaming stuff than my car.

got the car back, but the gaming stuff was gone. Who the hell steals a car and keeps the gaming stuff?! Must have been a gamer, jackass failed his appraise check.

of course the car was a real piece of crap.

 

[messy]

That doesn't really have anything specifically to do with hardcore gaming though as there are a variety of activities women will withold sex over, including watching football games, playing poker, having a few drinks with the guys from work, etc. Either a guy puts his foot down (and generally gets divorced, kicked out of the house, and forced to pay a lot of money), or he becomes a thrall to his wife's petty demands and is never heard from by his friends again. The same thing happens to my non-gaming friends though. That's marriage in a nutshell. A man gives up his old life, friends, and freedom in exchange a for a permanent supply of sex. Unfortunately many men find that the frequency and perhaps quality of the sex steadily decreases as the weight of the woman supplying it steadily increases.

i don't mean to flame you, but this is an awful stereotype that certainly doesn't describe "marriage in a nutshell," IMO.

messy

 

[Dragonbait]

I knew a guy who stopped going to school so that he could play GURPS.. He eventually became homeless for a year or two.

I knew another player who refused to wrok because it interfered with his SCA and gaming schedules.


...And here I thought *I* was a professional gamer. What troopers!

 

[shilsen]

I've DMed with six impacted teeth once and with a migraine (which I have a tendency towards) multiple times, but I never considered it particularly hardcore. In each case, once I started DMing I was so focused on the game that I stopped being aware of the excruciating pain, so the gaming was actually a good thing for me.

And I've skipped a date for gaming more than once.

 

[Odhanan]

I remember playing/running Vampire The Masquerade during ten days for high school holidays. The only breaks we had were to sleep during 3 to 5 hours. That was quite a marathon.

I remember bringing a newly bought copy of Wraith: The Oblivion to a concert of Pink Floyd in 1994. Who the hell would read Wraith during a concert of Pink Floyd at like 50 feet of the stage?!

I've got to think to actually remember more, besides the usual three-days-without-sleep (which I couldn't do anymore). I don't think I could find something to top these two.

 

[Michael Silverbane]

Somewhere... I have pictures of me and my gaming group playing D&D at my wedding reception. The wedding party was predominantly composed of the gaming group, so we're all wearing tuxes and such, with dice in our grubby little hands...

Unfortunately, while my wife did let me get those pictures, she did not actually let me do any real gaming that day. I guess that makes me a faux hardcore gamer...

Later
silver

 

[pogre]

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 ;-)

Been there did that - I played all night the night before an Evidence exam - dumb, dumb, dumb...

My brother drove from Marco Island Florida to the Chicago suburbs for a night of gaming. Thank goodness it was a renatl car!