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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lalato" data-source="post: 794258" data-attributes="member: 9171">Sacramento must, indeed, be a dead zone for gaming.  Hmmm...  I'll check a couple of other resources and post to your Gamers Seeking Gamers thread...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Now for something more germaine to this discussion...I started playing D&D again a few short months ago after a 10 year hiatus.  During my hiatus, I became the ultimate man about town.  I was seen everywhere... from Raves to Art Galleries.  I was in on several of the different music scenes around town.  Basically, I took on the persona of the "cool" guy.  The last few years saw me slowing down in that scene.  I no longer had the desire to keep up appearances.  It's a lot of work to be "cool".  It can be rewarding in its own way, but in the end, it is a mostly shallow endeavor.  There are a lot of fake kisses and fake hugs and fake smiles to go around.Casting about the last few months...  reading the 3rd Edition D&D stuff... searching for a gaming group...  joining several discussions online...  has been a great experience.  I've returned full circle to my inner geekiness.  Now that I'm back... I doubt I'll turn away again.  Pen and Paper games offer so much more than being a "scenester".Having said that...  do I talk about gaming openly at work?  Not very often.  If someone asks me what I did over the weekend...  I have no problem saying...  "I played Dungeons and Dragons with some friends..."  I've never had a bad reaction to it... and no one has ever pressed the issue.Last month I was in a developmental meeting for some new training material my group is trying to create.  There were six of us in the meeting.  I made a point that included an example from D&D.  Basically, I made the point that in some modules the challenges often have multiple levels of difficulty so that the DM (Trainer) can tailor the module for whatever level the Party (Students) might be.  After mentioning D&D, two of the other people at the table said...  "Wow, I used to play D&D...  That's great that you still play."  50% of the table were gamers.  I thought that was interesting.--sam</blockquote>

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