I had a D&D moment today...

[Dimwhit]

So have you ever gone to a store, seen two different discounts, and asked the clerk if the discounts 'stacked'? Gets pretty weird looks.

 

[Mercule]

My wife was a non-gamer when we met and only started gaming to hang out with me. For many years she wanted nothing to do with gaming-geek conversations. Well, she did eventually come around and made her first gaming joke a few years back.

About a month back, our 9 month-old daughter picked up something off the floor (and put it in her mouth) that we hadn't even seen. My wife turns to me and says, "Her Spot check is way too good." What scared me is that I (he of 20 years of gaming) turned back and said, "Huh?"

*hangs head in shame*

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I saw the three LotR films, and the latter two were with DnD friends of mine. We made comments like "Sauron definitely has Great Cleave" and we tried to guess Legolas' level and Climb skill score.

 

[Taelorn76]

I used to play in this group back in high schooll and me and my friend were walking down the street talking about how one of the other players had tried to rape someone. Just as two older ladies were walking towards us with their mouths completely open and an astonished look on their faces. After a few days of thinking the cops would want to question us we got a good chuckle out of it.

 

[adwyn]

On a college field trip we were measuring the height of a vertical cave entrance. A fellow gamer was standing at the top and just as he read "thirty feet" off of the tape he slipped and fell. As we rushed to him and his freshly broken leg he shouted "three dice damage my a$$!"

 

[Creamsteak]

Was he saying more or less? Cause... ya know... I'm curious.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Well, on my last ship trip, one of the sailors turned to me and asked "what's an RPG?"

I was about to say "role-playing game" until I realized that he was referring to a story about a guerilla attack in Iraq and he was referring to "rocket propelled grenade."

Holy cow that's scary! Line for line and word for word... Though we are stationed on shore duty right now.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

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).

Since she tries to kill Wendy, I'd go with evil.

My two "D&D References in real life" stories:

At work, a co-worker was describing an annoying individual. The person described was very short (under 5 ft.) and she called her a troll. I said, "I thought trolls were tall and green?" And someone else piped up, "And regenerate 5 hit points a round." Since her son played D&D, she got the joke.

At my grandmother's funeral, my son turned to me and asked, "Can't a priest just bring her back to life?" He was not quite six at the time, and I hadn't realized the impact of playing Icewind Dale had on him. He's nine now, and has a much better grasp of fantasy v. reality.

 

[demiurge1138]

Let's see...

I subconciously stat up character in movies, especially LoTR and the like. Although I'm not the only one. When I first saw RoTK, when Gandalf banished the Nazgul my friend and I turned to each other and said, simultaneously, "turn undead check".

I also occasionally break into Planescape cant, like calling somebody a berk if they irritate me. Nobody gets it.

I've also gotten into a lengthy discussion at school about the alignments of the various Presidential candidates, but that's getting towards the no-politics border...

Demiurge out.

 

[diaglo]

At my grandmother's funeral, my son turned to me and asked, "Can't a priest just bring her back to life?" He was not quite six at the time, and I hadn't realized the impact of playing Icewind Dale had on him. He's nine now, and has a much better grasp of fantasy v. reality.

even in the rules, raise dead wouldn't work. age is one of those no help areas.

teach the kid the rules better or he may be the next Blackleaf/Marcie