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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5439314" data-attributes="member: 40177">I remember in the eighth grade, playing with a couple of kids that were very much &quot;nerds&quot; (as opposed to me in 8th grade, a kid who was kind of nerdy but that got along well with pretty much everyone).&nbsp; But I had to play with these guys - it was a chance to play D&amp;D with new people, after all!One session.&nbsp; I made a wizard.First, they didn't play &quot;by the rules&quot;.&nbsp; Which is fine, neither did I.&nbsp; But their &quot;not by the rules&quot; was almost entirely by DM fiat or just random &quot;no, that shouldn't work&quot;.&nbsp; Which annoyed me.But what really got me was how they spoke.&nbsp; In character.&nbsp; Almost all of the time.&nbsp; And it wasn't pretty:&quot;Come, fellow adventurers, let us search this dungeon!&quot;&quot;Hark!&nbsp; A goblin!&quot;&quot;Careful, brave fighter, there could be something in those sacks.&quot;And the GM:&nbsp; &quot;Do you brave souls feel ready for the caverns of despair?&quot;And so on.&nbsp; And so forth.&nbsp; And absolutely no humour that was actually, y'know, funny.&nbsp; They didn't get any references I made to pop culture.&nbsp; I'm not describing it well.&nbsp; But at one point, I may have actually charmed a teammate and then convinced him to attack the rest of the party, and turned the entire group of lawful good fools against one another, before I was nervously booted by the GM.&nbsp; Yeah, I sound like the dick in this story, I know.&nbsp; And, well, I probably was.&nbsp; But holy crap, they were nerds!&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 5439314, member: 40177"] I remember in the eighth grade, playing with a couple of kids that were very much "nerds" (as opposed to me in 8th grade, a kid who was kind of nerdy but that got along well with pretty much everyone). But I had to play with these guys - it was a chance to play D&D with new people, after all! One session. I made a wizard. First, they didn't play "by the rules". Which is fine, neither did I. But their "not by the rules" was almost entirely by DM fiat or just random "no, that shouldn't work". Which annoyed me. But what really got me was how they spoke. In character. Almost all of the time. And it wasn't pretty: "Come, fellow adventurers, let us search this dungeon!" "Hark! A goblin!" "Careful, brave fighter, there could be something in those sacks." And the GM: "Do you brave souls feel ready for the caverns of despair?" And so on. And so forth. And absolutely no humour that was actually, y'know, funny. They didn't get any references I made to pop culture. I'm not describing it well. But at one point, I may have actually charmed a teammate and then convinced him to attack the rest of the party, and turned the entire group of lawful good fools against one another, before I was nervously booted by the GM. Yeah, I sound like the dick in this story, I know. And, well, I probably was. But holy crap, they were [i]nerds[/i]! :) [/QUOTE]

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