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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 3574981" data-attributes="member: 18701">For a second I thought you might have been my fiance posting here...but she never reads D&D websites  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  She is a 25 y/o paralegal that plays D&D and you would never know she plays by looking at her  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Most of the people who will be posting here on Enworld seem like pretty normal people (not all of you though...some of you guys are nutjobs  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ). Since they've covered the good stuff about the gaming community, I'll go ahead and mention the negative side. Even though RPG players have a stereotypical image, and most of us here will claim to be different & normal people; there are definately plenty of odd-ball gamers around. So be careful if you decide to meet random gamers and sit in on their game. Just like anything else, bring your boyfriend with you when meeting people and only join a group that comes off as friendly and not awkwardly sociable. We wouldn't want you to leave your experience with a bad taste in your mouth and thinking that the creepy people make up the majority of the RPG community.I've met a lot of gamers when shopping at RPG stores and I've interviewed potential players to join my group. The ol' "smelly grown man with a neck-beard who lives in his moms basement" stereotype definately isn't a myth. Don't get me wrong, they're usually innocent people, but they can easily make a person think that all gamers are weirdos and that D&D is for geeks.I would highly suggest finding someone to run a game for you and your friends. It will make much more sense and you'll be drawn into the game much easier if an experienced player was around to give you an idea of how to play it. And even then, there's a 100 other ways that the game might be played depending on a groups gaming style  <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=":)" /> Learning it on your own with your friends really won't give you any sense of what playing a roleplaying game is like. It'll also be very hard to do if the Dungeon Master (or Game Master) is also brand new at it.</blockquote>

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