I had a D&D moment today...

[SpringPlum]

My best friend and I are in the same gaming group so when she and I go out, we talk about our current campaign a lot. From a 'non-gamer' (or a normal person's standpoint) these conversations have got to sound really strange.

For example: My character is a rogue/mage who runs an up-and-coming spy network. Well, I was telling my friend about my plans to expand my PC's network as she and I walked around the craft store the other day. I mentioned a particular spy in a small city that needed more attention when I noticed another woman staring goggle-eyed at us a few feet down the aisle. Here we were talking about spys and agents--I'm lucky she didn't call the police and report us as potential terrorists. Instead she just assumed we were freakin' nuts.

Of course, on the flip side, I passed a couple of guys on campus today who were arguing about spell DCs.

 

[MarauderX]

So if I had a heart attack, is that a standard or a full round action?

I know, I know, my humor needs a Heal check.

 

[MiKeThEmAn]

Hi, I'm new here, and oh yes, I've had these moments. Specifically when I'm watching action movies, I always give DnD stats to all the characters without even trying, including skills and feats. Sometimes I even do it to my friends, or even myself, and when I find myself doing it I always just shake my head and remind myself of what a geek I am and how much I love it.

 

[Dirt]

After depriving ourselves of sleep and gaming non-stop at Andcon, we decided to drive home at 1:30 in the morning on Sunday (we had around a 3 hour drive, so it wasn't too bad). On the way home, my friend was trying to stay awake as best he could, and thought to himself -

"I'm really tired. I should cast Nap. Hmmm...wait a second, I'm not a cleric...hmmm....wait a second...this is real life".

 

[der_kluge]

My wife played a rogue with us when 3rd edition came out. She didn't quite get into it, but she's know the lingo enough to know how to talk about it. Plus, some of the kids she has in therapy sessions play, and so she knows what they're talking about now.

I kid her about her low constitution occasionally, and we'll talk about making successful spot checks, or listen checks.

But, those are intentional. I've mentioned this story before on here but it never ceases to be funny. You've got to go back to 2nd edition for this one. My roommate many years ago used to date a lot of... how shall we say, women of exceptional girth? Well, he referred to one of his girlfriends as "larger than man-sized." He didn't even realize it until a few seconds later, after we all busted a gut.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Two of the players in a D20 Modern game I play in murdered two innocent people for no good reason (in-game, sheesh!) and left their bodies in their car, in a university parking lot where anyone could see it... and I wasn't happy about it. (We chased away a prospective gamer by being too violent.)

Two weeks later we had to go to another room to play, and since it was booked for an extra hour we stayed in the only open space in the building... a university police station.

Where we proceeded to talk about the events of the previous game, including the part where some characters shot at police officers trying to arrest them (killing two with a spectacular autofire with an M16).

I can only conclude that university police have low Listen checks, since none investigated or even seemed to hear us. Or maybe they have good Int, Sense Motive or were all gamers.

 

[milotha]

My best friend and I are in the same gaming group so when she and I go out, we talk about our current campaign a lot. From a 'non-gamer' (or a normal person's standpoint) these conversations have got to sound really strange.

Yeah, I've had these conversations before, and they've usually occured on the bus. One time our gaming group was riding the bus to the local gaming store and we descended into game talk. It was a GURPS Vampire game centered in our current city. We were all playing characters of the opposite gender, and spent the whole conversation discussing taking-out the local Scientologist cult- in the game in character. Finally someone else riding the bus tried to talk to us- obviously concerned and not realizing it was a game.

Giving gamers a bad name.

 

[Angcuru]

A few months back when I used to work with a less-than-pleasant person who I used to game with (before the working), we would occasionally chuck D&D references at each other on the job.

Example: I'm carrying a bucket of cement over to where we're doing some masonry work, trip, and the cement goes flying across the jobsite. My dad/boss sees it coming, steps to the side, and my co-worker gets hit full in the chest with it and falls flat on his back. The first thing I could think of was "I guess he failed his reflex save." then he says "And my fortitude save, too. *WHEEZE!*"

 

[Kalen_Darkstar]

Hi, I'm new here, and oh yes, I've had these moments. Specifically when I'm watching action movies,.

I do the same thing like when my gaming group saw reign of fire in theatres the first day it played and the dragon slayer jumped off the tower at the dragon and it swallowed him all the people around us stared as we started discussing the characters critical miss and the dragons bite attack.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

Hi, I'm new here, and oh yes, I've had these moments. Specifically when I'm watching action movies, I always give DnD stats to all the characters without even trying, including skills and feats. Sometimes I even do it to my friends, or even myself, and when I find myself doing it I always just shake my head and remind myself of what a geek I am and how much I love it.

Welcome.

I do this too, but the single most geeky moment of my doing this was probably the time I had a serious discussion with someone over whether Tinkerbell (as in the Peter Pan pixie) was chaotic good or chaotic neutral. (I went with neutral).

I also make references to characters making their skill checks, will saves, their stats and spells. The best part is, my non gaming friends are really starting to "get it".