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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Utrecht" data-source="post: 202819" data-attributes="member: 1411">My thoughts and observations......first there definately is a stigma against gamers - however, it is a very easy stigma to get over.  In fact I have found that it is more a subject of good natured teasing than anything else.Examples:  In college, I was in a fraternity, but all of the borthers knew that on Thursdays I went to play D & D.  Some thought I was a freak (but I suspect that they would have felt that regardless of gaming - simply different ways of looking at the world) but most could care less.My wife's family knows that I play D & D (in fact my wife likes the fact that I am able to get out every so often to play - it allows her to do the same)  My motherin-law when she knows that I am going to play tells me to "have a good time in the sewars" and my bother in law asks me to "lift a flagon of mead in his honor"  all are meant in fun and are not taken seriously.My neighbors are the same - last night when we were planning a block BBQ - They asked about this Saturday - my response oh, that is bad, D & D night.  Thier response, Oh, well how about the 15th.......However, I think that if I acted embarrassed or tried to hide it, then the stigma would be greater, but the fact of the matter is that I like playing D & D and could really care less what people thought about the habit.Henry - right there with you on the unsanitary/unclenliness of fellow gamers.  If some one stinks/looks like a disease farm, I will not play with them - sorry.  If someone is rude/disruptive - will not play with them.</blockquote>

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