Hardcore gamers

[Steel_Wind]

Oh, God, please don't bring that up.

Hey one of the Best Threads Evar!

My wife's computer desk is beside mine and game discussions she cares little about; however, when the thread topic turns to amusing discussions about gamers and gaming (usually when I'm reading and start laughing) - she starts to read along with me.

On rpg.net's epic thread, I think we read that one together for a few hours...

 

[devilbat]

About the most hardcore I ever got was gaming in a very small, unventillated room with a group of hobby shop gamers. Yee gawds. I've been tear gassed and it smelled better than that room after three or four hours. What is it with some gamers and an aversion to personal grooming. STOP LIVING THE STEREOTYPE!

Ugh, I've experienced a place like that, only the guy who lived in the apartment was also heavy into steroids. So the smell was a mixture of gamer funk and pharmaceuticals.

It was not an improvement.

 

[Stormborn]

My wife (a hot vuluptuous red head) and I on our honeymoon, after having spent the night in a local hotel and flying cross country, walked into our hotel room in San Fransisco and what do you think the first thing we did was? On our honeymoon remember.

Thats right. We got out the phone book and started looking up game and comic stores and finding them on our travel map. We spent about 1/3 of the honeymoon (nearly 10 days)going to game/comic/toy/book stores. We had deliberately taken larger bags than we would need to fit gaming stuff in. I will leave you to wonder what we did with the rest of our time, although a significant amount did also involve food.

Which ultimately goes to prove: Gamers do NOT have sex with other people. Gamers have sex with other Gamers.

Eventually we will no longer be mutants, but a species that breeds true! >SHUDDER<

 

[Steel_Wind]

My wife is 8 months pregnant. She read ths thread over my shoulder.

I was advised in no uncertain terms that if I attempted to "just finish a combat" whilst she was in labour, I would never have to worry about sex again. With *anyone*.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

My wife is 8 months pregnant. She read ths thread over my shoulder.

I was advised in no uncertain terms that if I attempted to "just finish a combat" whilst she was in labour, I would never have to worry about sex again. With *anyone*.

Even with my love of gaming - if my husband tried something like that, I would tell him much the same.

 

[Stormborn]

My wife and I are not expecting, but she has already picked out some giant plushy dice "for the baby."

 

[Talmun]

I need to show this tread to my (non-gaming) wife: "See? I'm not that bad!!!"

I actually canceled the game two weeks ago because of our anniversary. Turns out I would have had to cancel it anyway - I got a kidney stone that weekend.

Although, it would have been fun to see how well I DM on Vicadin and Toridol...might have been an improvement...

I used to game with an EMT, one evening on the way to the game he passed a fresh car wreck. He stopped, helped the driver until the ambulance arrived and then drove to the game. When he walked in he had blood all over his sleeve, we were pretty worried until he told us what happened. That's not really Hardcore, but it is commendable.

 

[DonTadow]

Hardcore gamers are hardcore gamers and figure out how to balance gaming and personal life. My girlfriend says Im famous for multitasking because I can't decide sometimes which is more important, preparing for session or a quickie. Luckily she's a gamer and has adapted. The only thing I am not allowed to multitask with is if i'm ranting on enworld. That is forbidden.

 

[eris404]

Not my story, but one from close friend - he found out an old friend and member of their gaming group was dying so his group came to the hospital to play one last game with him.

This thread has suddenly turned way too depressing.

OK, a less depressing one: we used to game with someone I suspected was a narcoleptic. I'm not sure how he managed to leave the house, because in the middle of a session (sometimes almost in the middle of speaking a sentence), he would just pass out very suddenly. The first time I saw it happen, he was sitting on a futon; he fell asleep so quickly that his head hit the wooden frame with a very loud "crack!" As you can imagine, I freaked out, but he was completely fine. The rest of group knew him well and told me not to worry about him, that he would eventually wake up as if nothing had happened. He always showed up for game even though he might miss part of it.

 

[Savage Wombat]

I had a friend once who came to game while still recovering from having his wisdom teeth removed. Still groggy from the anesthetic and everything.

Not as bad as some of the other threads, but we did make him DM...