Love and gaming

[pogre]

To those of you whose significant others are gamers, did you meet them in a gaming group, or did you meet first and then discover you shared a love of gaming, or something else?

My wife started gaming with us after we met. I have only had a few women at the gaming table who actually got into gaming without the urging of a S.O. (5 that I can think of).

 

[Treebore]

GM's always get the chicks.

It's that awesome power... combined with the responsibility for whole kingdoms...


Or just the man that makes her feel that way.


When she gets experience I mean.

My wife and I were both players in the game we met at, during, whatever. So thats not always the case. Maybe it was because the DM was already a happily married man. You would have to ask Wayne. Or it could be because Wayne was close to 40 and my wife to be was 19 at the time. I was 23. So age was likely another factor.

 

[Tharian]

Let's see...

I think in my case, each had already had some gaming experience prior to our meeting. Then I get them each fully involved with gaming after starting the relationship. Current SO serves as DM for one game and is a player in mine.

 

[Xyanthon]

Same boat as Olaf... only I have two sons who will hopefully pickup my love of gaming. I just have to wait a while, they are only an infant and a toddler at the moment.

I'm sort of in a similar situation as you two. Way back in highschool when my wife and I were artsy punk types, I played a game of 1e AD&D with her and some other mutual friends. I don't remember her being that interested in the game itself but she didn't hate it. Fastforward some 14 years and we get married. She knows I'm a bigtime fantasy addict. She still doesn't game. However, whenever I did have my friends over to play, they would bring their SOs and the guys would game while the girls would do other things. We'd then all have dinner together. It made for a pretty good time. She liked the fact that I have a good social hobby that keeps me off the streets, heh. She still likes to razz me about being a nerd and all, but she loves nerds .

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

I introduced my wife to gaming. (long before she was my wife)

Same, here. We started dating in high school, and she started gaming with me not long after that. Now, I'm running games for her and my eldest son...

 

[John Crichton]

I met RangerWickett in a Gen Con. We are not acctually boyfriend and girlfriend but...

well, its very complicated, you'd have to be there to understand

I was there, I get it and it's all good. I wish the best for both of you.

As for myself: Met my SO at GenCon 2006 - just to add some credence to the thread tag. ::thumbs up::

 

[awayfarer]

I met my griflriend before I was into gaming. As a matter of fact, she's the one who introduced me to D&D.

 

[Merkuri]

I met my griflriend before I was into gaming. As a matter of fact, she's the one who introduced me to D&D.

Yeah, I remember when we were first going out that there was at least one night when he came over before my weekly online D&D game was over, and he sat on my couch either reading over my shoulder or pouring through my D&D sourcebooks. I wondered at one point whether he was coming over to see me or my books.

 

[sjmiller]

To those of you whose significant others are gamers, did you meet them in a gaming group, or did you meet first and then discover you shared a love of gaming, or something else?

With one exception, all the couples in our group (eleven gamers and two non-gamer wives, five couples in total) met as performers or workers at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. So we are gamers AND ren fest geeks.

 

[DM_Jeff]

I was playing since 1980 and my wife since 1981 when we met at a game table where I was DM in 1989. That's what introduced us and it's been that way since!

-DM Jeff