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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1936040" data-attributes="member: 7240">I'll describe my old gaming group(s) back in Vancouver because there is a pretty substantial personnel overhaul underway in the group I joined in Toronto. Back home, I think my group would function as the appropriate cautionary tale for the hobby. My group back in Vancouver epitomizes the values by which I have been, unintentionally, living my life:Celibacy: Although coming perilously close to the 50% mark, the proportion of people in the group not living up to this ideal remains a minority in the group. Humility: Again, the group has come perilously close to having a majority of professionally/financially successful people but has been held back from this by the narrowest of margins. Fortunately, for those who might wish to witness the ravages of RPGs, half the group remain professional failures (or consistently marry individuals who will squander all of what they earn and plunge them further into debt).Effeminacy: It's not the 42% gay players who make this a reality. In fact, without one of the gay players, there would not be a soul in the group capable of drinking more than two pints of beer without running into severe digestive problems. No: my group lives up to the non-sexual colloquial definition of &quot;gay.&quot;Distinctiveness: Even a person who had never seen a gaming group, could identify us in a crowded restaurant, simply by virtue of having seen that the Simpsons or 70s Show episodes describing gamers. So yes. I think I'm part of a representative group who could function quite adequately in anti-D&amp;D education ads in high schools. Announcer: &quot;Yes. D&amp;D may look fun now. But just look at what happens if you play it for twenty years... Wouldn't you rather take up smoking?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 1936040, member: 7240"] I'll describe my old gaming group(s) back in Vancouver because there is a pretty substantial personnel overhaul underway in the group I joined in Toronto. Back home, I think my group would function as the appropriate cautionary tale for the hobby. My group back in Vancouver epitomizes the values by which I have been, unintentionally, living my life: [b]Celibacy[/b]: Although coming perilously close to the 50% mark, the proportion of people in the group not living up to this ideal remains a minority in the group. [b]Humility[/b]: Again, the group has come perilously close to having a majority of professionally/financially successful people but has been held back from this by the narrowest of margins. Fortunately, for those who might wish to witness the ravages of RPGs, half the group remain professional failures (or consistently marry individuals who will squander all of what they earn and plunge them further into debt). [b]Effeminacy[/b]: It's not the 42% gay players who make this a reality. In fact, without one of the gay players, there would not be a soul in the group capable of drinking more than two pints of beer without running into severe digestive problems. No: my group lives up to the non-sexual colloquial definition of "gay." [b]Distinctiveness[/b]: Even a person who had never seen a gaming group, could identify us in a crowded restaurant, simply by virtue of having seen that the Simpsons or 70s Show episodes describing gamers. So yes. I think I'm part of a representative group who could function quite adequately in anti-D&D education ads in high schools. Announcer: "Yes. D&D may look fun now. But just look at what happens if you play it for twenty years... Wouldn't you rather take up smoking?" [/QUOTE]

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