What is your general impression of RPGers? Forked Thread: WotC tryin to kill FLGS?

[JackSmithIV]

There's a difference between RPGers and Gaming Store Dwellers. RPGers come in all types, and are generally normal folks. Fun to play with, interesting people. Lots of people pop into game stores to buy books (or other game stores, or buy them online), but typically get what they want and go home. They don't stay to play.

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[Rykion]

There's a difference between RPGers and Gaming Store Dwellers. RPGers come in all types, and are generally normal folks. Fun to play with, interesting people. Lots of people pop into game stores to buy books (or other game stores, or buy them online), but typically get what they want and go home. They don't stay to play.

Gaming Store Dwellers, on the other hand, use the Game Store as their chief form of social interaction. They're the guys that are always in the game store playing. They tend to have little to no ability to interact with the opposite sex, are overly rigid in their opinions (and thus are harder to get a group together for a specific game), and usually have serious mental baggage that has to be tap-danced around (can't deal with certain types of plots, game systems, characters not being the best, characters not being able to do everything, characters getting damaged at all, not playing Bob the Rogue version 38, etc..) They're, I think, a minority in this hobby, but have FAR more visibility and influence than their numbers would imply.

That's right we're not nerds, THEY are.
Sorry, but your stereotype is just as applicable to RPGers as a whole as it is to people that hang out in game stores. That is to say that it applies to some people, but not nearly all. People that hang out and game at my FLGS are lawyers, military officers, police officers, martial arts instructors, enlisted military, students, etc. Many are married with family, others are single. The socially awkward tend to lack volume control so may be the most apparent, but many other people hang out in game stores.
Edit: Here's the official chart for those who feel the need to try to stereotype others as geekier than themselves. http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif