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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5468906" data-attributes="member: 14159">My wife and gaming. . .She's a geek, even though she may dispute it.  She loves to play chess, her favorite TV shows are Eureka, Stargate Universe, Big Bang Theory, and Battlestar Galactica.  She plays in fantasy larps, and reads fantasy novels voraciously.You'd think she's a natural candidate for tabletop gaming.  Not quite so.Apparently her ex-husband was also a gamer and catastrophically burned her out on it.  She tried to game with them a few times, every time was a disaster.You see, my wife enjoys roleplaying, not rolling dice and number crunching.  Her ex-husband's game was a high-level D&D 3.5 campaign, she took one look at what it would take to create a character for this game, and balked.  They created high level min-maxed PC and handed it to her (what would be a typical character for their campaign).  For somebody who doesn't like lots of math and has never tabletopped before, jumping into a high-level 3.5e game of a bunch of veteran players (character optimizing rules lawyers at that) was daunting to say the least.  She lasted one session before she bolted.They wanted her to come back and try again, next time giving her an epic level character (as the campaign had gone higher level since then), with some kind of code of conduct (I could never figure out from what she remembers if it was a Paladin, or some other obscure class with a code, or some feats like Vows which have strictures like that), she didn't fully understand the restrictions (or really want to play a character with them) and broke them quickly, and left the game when she found out how permanently hosed her character was from doing that.I've spent the almost 5 years I've known her trying to get her to tabletop game.  She almost tried out a World of Darkness game once, since she likes vampire fiction and she was told the game was very low-math.  She then had a falling out with the GM and didn't actually join.The only time she's ever gamed and enjoyed it was a few weeks ago.  We go to a gaming club in the area that meets at a FLGS a couple of counties over.  She goes there to play Magic, I play whatever pickup game of some RPG or CMG they are playing.  She gets cajoled into playing a game of the new 4e-derived Gamma World and apparently at least has an okay, neutral time.  Not loving it, but certainly not hating it.  The wacky setting was a negative, but she says the game didn't feel like it was nothing but sitting down and doing math homework for hours on end.Now, one day, I hope to get her playing an RPG with me and my friends.  3.5 might be a stretch, I'm thinking maybe d6 Star Wars, as something I like to run that is relatively rules light.</blockquote>

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