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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 267776" data-attributes="member: 2067">Poor people! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm generaly open...I tell people about it who ask, and if you know me well enough, you probably know I do it. I don't hide it...but I'm not exactly going up to chicks in the bar saying "Hey, baby, you're a 10 HD woman!"I consider myself a fairly moderate geek. I don't read comics, I don't use minis, I don't own T-shirts with my gamerhood on them....But I do carry my books around a lot, and I'm not afraid to smile and tell people that I play D&D, if it comes up. I have them on a shelf, and I'll gladly show them to any interested parties.I have introduced a whole mess o' people to D&D in just a few years since 3e came out. My then-girlfriend, her roommate, the half-japanese girl accross the hall, a girl down the hall from me...heck, because I played with so many chicks, most of their guy-friends found out and at least showed up to watch the story, if not play in it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And I do think the girls are more open than the guys. They know that they can get people to satisfy their romantic needs even if they *do* game....'cuz there's a lot of guys and most of them are rather pathetic. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Guys, meanwhile, note that most women (though not all of them) won't touch 'em with a 9 1/2-ft. pole if they found out they were "D&D Nerds." It's associated with a negative stereotype that most people don't want to be cast in (at least, not right away)....and stereotypes are prevalent, even if they're usually not true. Say you're a gamer, and there's a whole mess of things associated with that image...which may or may not be true.I'm a nerd. But there's no reason to limit my gettin'-it-on possibilities advertising that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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