Showing love to our enablers
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Camelot
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I got into gaming after I started going out with my girlfriend. I asked if she'd be interested, and she immediately jumped on the idea. I would DM and she would be one of my players (halfling archer ranger), always showing up for the game. She's not as into the game as I am, but she's definitely a gamer.
It could be because her dad reads and knows everything about Tolkein.
Oh, yeah, I'm lucky. =)
It could be because her dad reads and knows everything about Tolkein.
Oh, yeah, I'm lucky. =)
I sprung it on my wife years after we were married. I hadn't played D&D since college, but when 4e came out, the stars aligned and before I knew it, I had 5 guys showing up at my house every other Wednesday.
She's great. She puts the kids to bed, enjoys the gang, and even bakes cakes for birthdays. She might have a little interest in playing, but right now that is eclipsed by going to school online and how late we tend to play(2am). Still, the group is closed, but she has a standing invitation that I hope she will take up once she finishes up college.
And she, and my daughters are enablers. I got a stack of great stuff for Christmas and the other day they were out and my little one, who's 3, says she to my wife, she wants to buy me a bunch of D&D stuff for Valentine's day. The older one wanted to play with it.
She's great. She puts the kids to bed, enjoys the gang, and even bakes cakes for birthdays. She might have a little interest in playing, but right now that is eclipsed by going to school online and how late we tend to play(2am). Still, the group is closed, but she has a standing invitation that I hope she will take up once she finishes up college.
And she, and my daughters are enablers. I got a stack of great stuff for Christmas and the other day they were out and my little one, who's 3, says she to my wife, she wants to buy me a bunch of D&D stuff for Valentine's day. The older one wanted to play with it.
My wife isn't a gamer/genre fan, but she is a good sport. She's happy to cede the living room to me and my friends on game night, so we can make a joyous, loud, and dorky noise...
...and while she doesn't buy me pen-and-paper gaming gifts, I have it on good word I'm getting Star Trek Season 3 on Blu-ray for Valentine's Day.
...and while she doesn't buy me pen-and-paper gaming gifts, I have it on good word I'm getting Star Trek Season 3 on Blu-ray for Valentine's Day.
Thornir Alekeg
Albatross!
My wife was always interested in D&D. When they were kids, her brother bought the Moldvay Basic Set, but never played it. She used to look at the box and wonder what it was like.
After we got married, a friend of mine started a new D&D group. She came to a couple of games, and became interested enough to try it out.
Once we had kids and our large group broke up as people moved away, she stopped playing. She enjoyed the social aspects of a regular gaming group more than the gaming itself, and the logistics of managing the children while we both gamed diminished the enjoyment of the game for both of us. Since she knows how much I love gaming, she has supported my continued gaming while she watches the kids. The flip side is that I never give her any grief when she wants to do a girls night out.
After we got married, a friend of mine started a new D&D group. She came to a couple of games, and became interested enough to try it out.
Once we had kids and our large group broke up as people moved away, she stopped playing. She enjoyed the social aspects of a regular gaming group more than the gaming itself, and the logistics of managing the children while we both gamed diminished the enjoyment of the game for both of us. Since she knows how much I love gaming, she has supported my continued gaming while she watches the kids. The flip side is that I never give her any grief when she wants to do a girls night out.
buddhafrog
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My wife is supportive, though she is far from a gamer. She doesn't understand nor cares too. She buys me no gaming gifts. She does, however, let me do whatever I want with gaming and spend whatever money I need without saying one word... I play with my son, and she's very supportive of that as well.
But the two people I'm most thankful for are my older brother who played with me -- he was about 16 and I was ten. Almost everyday after school for two years he DM'd a game for my best friend and I. The second person is my mom, a very right-wing, devil-fearing, the anti-christ-must-be-among-us type of mother. She hated D&D and hated my brother and I talking about it each night at the dinner table. Regardless, she never, not once, made us stop playing or stop talking about it (she did ask us to refrain from describing how I cut the head off of certain monsters, though).
I'm appreciative.
But the two people I'm most thankful for are my older brother who played with me -- he was about 16 and I was ten. Almost everyday after school for two years he DM'd a game for my best friend and I. The second person is my mom, a very right-wing, devil-fearing, the anti-christ-must-be-among-us type of mother. She hated D&D and hated my brother and I talking about it each night at the dinner table. Regardless, she never, not once, made us stop playing or stop talking about it (she did ask us to refrain from describing how I cut the head off of certain monsters, though).
I'm appreciative.
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