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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1881334" data-attributes="member: 63">All I know is that the girls in my college's sci-fi/fantasy/gaming club either had already found good, steady boyfriends, or else they were not the sort of people you want to date.It's kind of like gamers are afraid that they'll go extinct, so everyone who's eligible gets a partner early, to make sure they can repopulate the world with geeks.  All of us who made the mistake of picking someone who we ultimately could not get along with are stuck single, with poor chances of finding someone.Le sigh.Of the gamers I know well, male or female, only two have significant others who aren't part of the same social group.  Most everyone else is either single or dating another gamer.Now, the last time I had a girlfriend, I was the one who got her into gaming.  She might have started anyway, but it took some cajoling at first.  Of course now she games with another man, far far away.Le sigh.In my experience, when someone is introduced to roleplaying, either they take to it easily and make it something they love, or they just don't get into it.  I recall vividly one evening, two months after my big, tragic break-up, hearing a knock at my dorm room door.  I open it to see a cute, skinny girl who says with a Polish accent, "Are you the Ryan who plays Dungeons & Dragons?"I thought it was love at first sight.  She wanted to play D&D, and she was new to campus so she hadn't been around to see me particularly broken up over my break-up.  I was certain I would find love with this new Polish gamer, with her sexy almost-Russian accent.  But then she played in one session I ran, and things just didn't go well.  She played her character, and thought it was fun, but never asked to play again.  We get along fine since she's also a big fan of anime, but she's not a gamer.Doesn't mean I wouldn't still want to date her, even a year and a half later.Le sigh.</blockquote>

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