Non-Stereotypical Gamers you've met

[Magic Slim]

I think you guys all missed the most a-stereotypical gamer of them all:

Vin Diesel!



(oh wait, you're talking about gamers we've actually met...)

Slim

 

[Ferret]

Theres me, I play rugby. And theres my old maths teacher who didn't seem geeky at all but was extrovertive.

 

[fusangite]

ENWorld has really opened my eyes to the demographic shift in the gaming world over the past few years. What if we geeks are victim of our own success and become, in the gaming world, the shunned minority we are in other social spheres?

 

[Nightfall]

Fus,

Trust me the only finanicial success I've had comes from two books I've worked on for S&SS. In any case I'd like to think I'm atypical of most gamers out there. I like to be outside some times. I enjoy winter. I like hockey. (Oh wait now that just means I might be Canadian )

 

[MatthewJHanson]

I've played with some foot ball players/frat boys who fit that sterotype pretty well, except that they also play DnD. And at least two of the fraternities where I go to school have house games. One of my favorite things about them was listening to Joel talk about a world he wants to create, where halflings are th most feared of all races.

 

[dave_o]

I've been told I'm pretty atypical by people I've gamed with. I'm 17, an a musician firstly (punk rock, but I study guitar much beyond the three chords required), I've done modeling and stuff, and am heinously punk rock.

Gaming is sort of secondary to pretty much everything else in my life, but I still dig it a ton.

 

[Haradim]

I don't think I've met any gamer who was truly non-stereotypical.

I know I am completely stereotypical, as are a couple of others in my group. But some don't fully fit the mold.

 

[Norfleet]

I'm either stereotypical or not-stereotypical. The stereotype appears to have somewhere along the line shifted to nerdy children, while I'm an old crankly military veteran. On the other hand, I *DID* enter the RPG scene through the wargaming scene, which is how this entire business started, so maybe I'm stereotypical after all.

 

[Privateer]

I had a member in my group who, among other things, was on the football team, was on the wrestling team, and was known to shot-put on occasion. He was sociable, too... he used to joke about how, as a football playing D&D-er, he was on both sides of the law

 

[pogre]

I ran a couple of groups that were totally non-typical.

1. Ran a campaign for my college football teammates. We once overslept for team breakfast and our strong safety almost told coach we were gaming the night before. I told him coach would probably rather assume we were drunk beating up locals .

2. Another campaign I ran featured folks from one of my favorite bars in St. Louis, Blueberry Hill. Following close on Tuesday night all of the cooks and a couple of bartenders would come over and we would play until 5:00 AM. Needless to say my Wednesday class schedule suffered.

D&D is still not cool at the HS level, but I just love it when I see kids break the mold. Hopefully as high school coach and teacher I can help model that behavior.