[OT - gaming affecting RL] Does this ever happen to you?

[BiggusGeekus]

Ever get those days where you walk into a buisness meeting not with the notebook that has your plans for the project but instead the notebook that has your plans for a new prestige class you were designing?

I hate when that happens.

 

[KidCthulhu]

Sialia used to work for a publishing company designing math textbooks. She was in a meeting one day and the team was discussing ways to provide real world examples of calculating spherical volume within a square area.

She had to sit on her hands and bite her tongue to keep from yelling "You cast a Fireball in a 20'x20' room!"

Sometimes it's hard to be in the gaming closet.

 

[Darklone]

Ouch!

*Climbing back on my chair....*

That was good

 

[Ciraeus]

Oops...

When I read the title, I thought this topic was going to be about gaming in Ravenloft, and I was wondering how this could be OT.

Ye, Gods, I need a brain...or a life.

That's all...I have nothing else to contribute.

--Ciraeus

 

[GrimJesta]

Well, this isnt exactly the same, but I was doing an oral report in my Medieval Thought class on William the Conq. and I mentioned that he was a high level Duke, when I MEANT to say a powerful Duke. I really thought noone noticed until someone in the back yelled out the quote from the movie Airheads, "I played D&D too!" in the voice and everything.

I should have been mortified, but it turns out alot of the class was into, or still was into, gaming (you should expect that in a class of this sort, I guess).

-=Grim=-

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

some times I get stange looks in public when i say things like "I'm going to stab the crap out of so and so if he steals from me one more time".

 

[Magnus]

i wasn't the one who said it. i wasn't even the one who heard it. but i remember seeing in a post like this one, some guy saying that a friend of his once refered to his girlfriend, with a straight face, as being "larger than Man-Sized". like he ended his post, that one still cracks me up! LOL

 

[Always_a_DM]

Back in my shadowrun days I had two instances of people outside the gaming group overhear our conversations.

The first time, we were at the supermarket getting some food for the game that night and one of the other players was recapping what his character got up to the week before. Just as we got up to the register, the girl behind the checkout would have heard..
Me: "So what did you do after you hacked into the traffic grid ?"
Friend: "I grabbed some data and sold it for three and a half thousand."
Me: "Neat."
It was then that we noticed that we could no longer hear the sound of items being scanned through the checkout. She was staring at us with her mouth open. As we turned to look at the checkout girl she quickly turned back to scanning items and would not make eye contact with us.

The second time was when I was walking down the street with a friend and we were trying to decide what guns to buy for our Street Sam characters. I got a strange look from a passerby when I said "But if you get the sniper rifle now, like I did, you don't have to pay the street index markup".

I don't really have anything else to add.

 

[trancejeremy]

About 6-7 years ago when I was really into Shadowrun, I went to a bank to get a cashier's check (or cheque), but instead asked for a 'certified credstick', which was the shadowrun equivalent.

 

[trancejeremy]

This isn't RPG related, but the other shadowrun comment made me think of this. A couple times I've gotten funny looks after coming back from shooting my guns and going someplace without taking a shower first - the gunpowder (smokeless powder, actually) in them can really stink...

Especially when you take out spent shell casing out of your pocket instead of change when you go to pay for something...

I actually try to never talk about RPGs in public. I guess I feel there is some sort of stigma attached to them, in terms of geekiness...