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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NCSUCodeMonkey" data-source="post: 3538909" data-attributes="member: 2047">I can't stress this one enough. When my wife and I were first gaming together, there was a guy at the table who used to nitpick every decision that she made, and fly off the handle every time she forgot a rule. Thing is, he didn't do it to anyone else. I think this behavior is probably really common, and you'll know it when you see it. There's a difference between the guy, or gal, who is usually a Tactician in Robin Laws speak, telling everyone where to stand and how to maximize bonuses (that's what I do <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />) and the guy who's telling your SO that she's doing everything wrong and "Why can't you just learn the rules?!" And yeah, he actually said that. I think the biggest thing to entice a SO into gaming is to do what you would to entice anyone else, regardless of gender. Game with people that are fun to hang out with, people that you would go to the movies with if you weren't gaming. My wife is happiest when she's gaming with people who are just decent human beings. Then again, my wife is a self proclaimed Nerd, so maybe I had it easy. She asked me if she could play D&D, and stuck through the weird-GM-who-smoked-and-used-chewing-tobacco, the annoying-yelling-why-don't-you-do-this player, and more off color jokes than I can count (though she probably made 1/3 of them).Good Luck!</blockquote>

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