You're a gamer???

[Zzyzx]

I put a big black d20 on the top of my monitor at work for a few months. No comments.

Then I go in the copy room and find someone had copied the entire original "Temple of Elemental Evil" adventure and left a copy on top of the recycling bin.

Still haven't found out who the stealth gamer is.

And I do a solo game with my wife as our schedules and small kids make playing with our regular big group problematic. Good parts and bad parts, but I get my gaming fix so it works for now till the little ones get old enough to stop eating the dice.

 

[SiderisAnon]

When I was in college, we played in a classroom because we were an official club. (Chess and Gaming Club. We even played chess once.) We tended to run much later than most clubs and we were generally louder.

One evening, a group of security officers walk into the room. Everyone goes dead quiet.

Then one of the officers says hello to my by name (I worked as a shuttle bus driver for security as part of my financial aid package). She was a regular gamer and actually was interested in joining our school group, but couldn't because she worked the shift we played during.

It was still funny to see the relieved looks on all my players' faces when the realized we weren't being arrested. The other security looked amused, though I don't know if it's from the reactions or because they didn't know their fellow officer played.

 

[Nyaricus]

I met this woman who was running fetish events in the city I had moved into for University. She ran an S&M club and was definitely an awesome, smart and... well... kinky woman at least a year my senior. She was also one of the queens of the local goth scene. And smokin' hawt.

We met a few times in a few environments over the next year - one night at a club where she was dressed up like Pris from BladeRunner (I went up to her and asked if she could turn a cartwheel - she answered that she could also crush my head between her thighs). In the end we got to know each other better and since she was a goth, I figured I could suck her into gaming through Vampire the Masquerade.

Then she showed me her AD&D1e books and explained that she had quit playing D&D when the munchkin manual had been released (aka: Unearthed Arcana).

Kick ass.

We've been married for 11 years now.

You sir, are a lucky sonuvabitch.

cheers,
--N

 

[ashockney]

Going to college, I was actively involved in Hope Fellowship, a group of chrisitian students, at Ashland University. Although as college students we were all far from "perfect" most of the people were pretty straight laced. The leaders of the group were terrific role models and tended to lead by example.

These were guys I really looked up to, and I really enjoyed hanging out with this group, although mostly on the "fringe". In something of a coup, the leader of Hope Fellowship won the student senate election to be President for his senior year. He was a great leader, and with my poli sci minor and role as news editor of the college paper, I worked closely with him through the year to help him accomplish his goals. We got closer, and even bonded, given our common interests.

Now I'm an active gamer, and pretty much a big ol' nerd. I'm running and playing in a weekly gaming group on campus, and we run it out there in the open for everyone to see/participate/join in. It should really come as no surprise...

After it's all said and done, he graduates (a year or two older than me) and I help him move all his stuff into his new home in town. Low and behold, among the crates of stuff I move into his house is a crate full of 1st edition D&D books. Crap! What a missed opportunity. We talked gaming for the rest of the day and exchanged a slew of great gaming stories. He had never seen me gaming, and it had never come up in conversation, given all our other interests...

 

[STARP_Social_Officer]

Learning that Vin Diesel used to play kind of wrecked my head a little.
Huh?

 

[CharlesRyan]

We're moving out of our rental into a new house this week. A couple weeks ago the rental agency sent a prospective new tennant over to the house to have a look. The woman was 40ish, tall, thin, and very French, dressed in what might be described as "business high fashion."

A quick visit to our living room doesn't reveal much, but when you're sticking your head in every room in the house it doesn't take long to see we're gamers. The woman was a little sheepish at first, but eventually couldn't help asking: "Do you play, 'ow do you say?, Donjons et Dragons?" Turns out, of course, that she is a very hard core gamer. She was very excited to find non-teenage gamers in the area.

 

[Dr Simon]

Learning that Vin Diesel used to play kind of wrecked my head a little.
Huh?

It's a shame he didn't manage to persaude Dame Judi Dench into joining him for a game. I forget the full story but I think they were working on Chronicles of Riddick together. Mind you, the concept of 'role-playing' shouldn't be that alien to an actor really.

Me and a friend were chatting about Baldur's gate in a maths class, one summer, and our teacher over hears us. I go out of the room for the loo or to get something (I don't remember). Not only does he play Baldur's gate I&II he is also an experienced DM at D&D and introduced us to V:TM.

So your teacher introduces you to a game where you pretend to be vampires? You are a character from a Chick Tract and I claim my five pounds.

Listen to obscure metal (Gothic, Folk, Death, Progressive)

I'm not sure that counts as going against the gamer stereotype!

 

[Nightchilde-2]

That and clothing is optional if it's just the two of you.

Ah yes. I was going to mention the post-game whoopie. Never neglect the whoopie. Definitely one of the perks of a gaming SO.

 

[interwyrm]

i met a girl... once.

Sure you did.

No disrespect meant... just couldn't resist.

 

[dpetroc]

My father gamed with us when I was a kid -- a half-orc Cleric of Asmodeus. Used to cast 'cause disease' on party members and charge for the cure. I would STILL be afraid to game with him.

I've gamed for 28 years - my wife got into it a year or two ago. She's played a haughty shugenja in an OA game (solo), a vicious and unfeeling hexblade in a mid-level D&D game ("I don't care that the bard and scout are prisoners in the castle with the Vampire Sorceress - I want a bath"), one of the more blood thirsty pirates I can imagine in a solo Conan game (put an entire Shemitish village to the sword to collect five beautiful slaves), and a Vanir barbarian in a group Conan game. Add the two dozen miniatures she's painted and I can claim to have converted her...

When gaming with SO's just make sure you treat them NO differently than the other players.