Non-Stereotypical Gamers you've met

[Melkor]

If stereotypical equals the guys with bad hygiene and no social skills who hang out at my local gaming store and talk about the latest exploits of Green Lantern and how bad-ass their D&D characters are - and how they have done this or that in their latest game sessions - I am definitely not stereotypical.

My wife won't even go into the local game store anymore. When I used to stop by, and my wife was with me, people would act as if Heidi Klum or Beyonce Knowles herself had just entered the building.....It's was almost sickening (to her and I both) to see how they would all stop talking and drool.

She now calls the place: "The Dork Store" and says I am a "Closet Dork"......It's hard for me to disagree.

 

[Dark Jezter]

I introduced my cousin to D&D, and now he absolutely loves it. What seperates him from the gamer geek stereotype is that he's a 6'3" athlete who wrestles and plays football and baseball. When he's not playing sports, though, he likes to play as the ranger character he created.

 

[Eosin the Red]

I game with a swell fella who is also a Lt Colonel chase pilot (O-5) for the Air Force? Sadly, he has been at the funny shaped building for a few years.

I want to get an all health care professionals game going just once...I am a RN and play with an rPh, now we need an MD, RT, LPN, R-EMT, and a PA to round things out.

 

[Dark Jezter]

I game with a swell fella who is also a Lt Colonel chase pilot (O-5) for the Air Force? Sadly, he has been at the funny shaped building for a few years.

One of the players in the campaign I'm DMing is a U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer (a Lieutenant). Many non-gamers don't realize just how popular RPGs are among military personnel. In fact, I know an ex-Army guy who met his wife during a D&D session when they were both stationed in Germany over 15 years ago. He still remembers that his character was a dwarf figher while his wife-to-be was playing an elf druid.

I'm willing to bet that a lot of ENWorlders are military personnel also.

 

[qstor]

There's two attractive women co-eds in a Star wars group I'm in, here in Michigan. Both are dating other players who aren't overweight pimple faced geek types.

There's a player in my Living Greyhawk group that's a really attractive slim guy who could be a male model, who's married.

Most of the others meet the sterotype including the treasurer of our gaming club who has all the sterotypical traits of a 45 year old gaming geek.

I wanna game with Djeta!


Mike

 

[Dispater]

Lars the Viking (Dispater on EnWorld) is pretty non-stereotypical.

Hey I don't burn churches nor do I rape women.

-Lars

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I wanna game with Djeta!

Mike

Hey if you're ever in Boston...

 

[Grim]

Well, I'm pretty atypical. I'm 17, 6'4, and play water polo yearround. I'm... ogre-esque, but I still play tons of DnD. Lets see... most of the players I've met were pretty typical. Either semi-overweight guys, or girls who looked like guys once they put thier ever present sweatshirts on. So... I'm the exception, not the rule.

Awsome.

 

[Verdigris]

We rolled up a character for my dog once. One of our PCs needed an intelligent sidekick and, well, there was Slipper (my dog). We invited her to play and let her use her own stats. It was a disaster. She kept interrupting the narrative, licking the DM, eating the cheetos, etc. After a few sessions we had to ask her to leave the group because she simply couldn't wait her turn. She was certainly atypical.

As for me, I'm dressed in a suit and tie. I have short hair. I don't have tattoos. I've got a wife. I'm athletic. I can rip on an electric guitar. Not sure if I'm "atypical". Still, I'm still a geek by my own standards: I love wargames, fantasy books, video games, oreos, etc.

 

[Henry]

Many non-gamers don't realize just how popular RPGs are among military personnel.

There's always Dave Arneson's story about how a Naval Intel Officer once told him that back in the 1980's there was an active D&D group on almost every U.S. Nuclear Sub...

For all I know, it's still true. I wonder how Pat Pulling or Jack Chick would've reacted to that news?