You Don't Talk Shop at the Dinner Table

[ssampier]

But enough to "discuss" them? You'll find many that don't.

Trying to discuss "class distinctions" in Canada, for example, as anything more than what another poster noted as "paycheque magnitude" will only get you funny looks.

Class is a bit more than income, which my major calls Socio-Economic status. However, I never had any discussions about it outside my sociology classes.

 

[Aramax]

Everyone I play with has the same political and religious views and are friends outside of gaming, and I wouldn't want to game with them otherwise.

How open minded of you!

 

[Phlebas]

we only have one rule in gaming - when the GM says "and now back to the real world" you concentrate on the game and leave the real world conversation for another day.

Thats probably more to do with the fact a couple of us are engineers, and another's a computer geek and apparently we can Bore for Britain.....

(and although I've heard class being used as a pejorative for really crude behaviour, in the UK its never been a taboo subject, just not high on most peoples agenda compared to politics, life, relationships.... pretty much everything really)

 

[Doghead Thirteen]

So my question is this: Does anyone else have problems like this? Or, once again, is it just me?

Heh, you think you got it rough? We end up discussing everything from Battlefield 2 to game mechanics to what would be the best method of exterminating Tony Blair... half of our freakin' game system has been designed in mid-game.

At least our 'right, we're gonna start playing again' statement is 'Okay, back to reality'.

But then, the only such house rule I've had to enforce is what we call the F14 rule. That rule is; if a PC kills another PC, an F14 immediately crashes on the killer's head.

I've never had to carry it through.