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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wonger" data-source="post: 1436895" data-attributes="member: 17516">Dorks!!!  You are all dorks!!!And so am I...in fact, I'm the Dungeon Master.  I have three campaigns that have been running for 11, 8, and 6 years - but my non-gamer friends did not know about it until 3 years ago or so, when one of my gamers who also hung with the non-gamers spilled the beans and dragged us all out of the closet with him to make his geek crime seem less heinous.It's an odd thing.  I still often wish it was in the closet, not because my non-gamer friends think any less of me (they don't at all), but because of the constant geek jokes that I must contend with.  Lets face it, ladies and gentlemen:  no matter how social an activity we know it to be, no matter how much fun it is, there is something very geeky about several adults going into a basement and rolling dice and playing with miniatures talking in strange voices.  Do your co-workers really need to know, too?  If asked, I will typically say that I am hanging out with friends down south.  Some of them know about my D&D and give me crap, but I just fire back about their Magic, Warhammer, and Dragon Dice they made the mistake of admitting.Playing D&D IS geeky.  Period.  Accept it, and be happy, but don't make altruistic statements about people judging you as if they have no right - going in a basement and playing with mini's and drinking a gallon of Dew while getting excited about a 20, IS a strange thing for an adult to do!  Don't get mad at someone for thinking so, because they are right.  What they are not right about is the satanic BS that floats around - sitting in on one session would change one of their minds almost immediately from "this is evil" to "this is reeeeeal nerdy".  So, I encourage all to set those "D&D is evil" people straight.And regarding the post about embarassing in front of women - come on people, be realistic.  If you are talking to an attractive person in a bar, meeting them for the first time, that last thing you need to ruin the mood is try to explain this very odd, wonderful hobby of ours.  Most non gamers, even after sitting in on a session, just don't get it - they may have no problem with you playing, but they usually won't get it, just like some people don't get the appeal of baseball or other certain activities.  Why ruin a perfectly good dating oppurtunity just to evangalize D&D?!?Balance people.  Some balance in your life...I recommend it.  I limit my geek activities to D&D and being a Star Wars and LotR freak.  Any more than three or four, and gaming defines you rather than you enjoy gaming.  If you play D&D, Magic, LARP, computer games, and wargames while watching Frodo scale Mount Doom, you will not have time for a life outside your gaming click - and aren't most of these people ranting about judgements the ones that hate cliques and falling into a cookie cutter mold?Take your PHB and Psionics handbook to Spring Break.  I did.  But when you are out partying and bringing some new friends home for the night, there is nothing wrong with stuffing those books under your bag, they'll be waiting for you in the morning like the good friends they are, even if your guests are not!Cheers!</blockquote>

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