Dean's World

Hah! Got you beat there, Dean. I'm an author for RPGs. [oh the shame...]

I was a committed gamer for about 15 years until that whole married with children thing brought it to a sad, sorry close. Never did the D &D thing, used to play Steve Jackson's The Fantasy Trip (Proto-GURPS for those of you still in to RPG).

For that matter I still have a box full of painted Ral Partha miniatures, all my hex maps, props, a leather bag full of about 100 assorted sizes and varieties of dice...

*sniff*

I have to go now...

Man, I still play!

I once accidentally got most of my group killed by a dragon, but in the dragon's hoard there was a Ring of Wishing. The DM let me wish that the one weapon we'd had that could have saved us, had succeeded.

At the time I thought that was so cool. Gad.

Lure teenage girls?

As I remember it, playing D&D pretty much ensured the girls would stay away.

Big Dan - you probably were playing it right. As a girl-repellent it was without equal. Of course as a teenager I really didn't need a girl-repellent. Junior High was so much fun! - and I'm Marie of Romainia!

Now does the terrible effects of D&D also happen with the PC versions or just the pen and paper ones? Because I really liked the Baldur's gate series

Hah! Quitter I still play D&D it's quite fun to get a group of geeks around the living room go on wild and wolly adventures and have a good laugh over snacks and soda.

(I'm 32 BTW and met my wife via RPGs and Anime.)

GEEKS!!!!

All of you are geeks.

I was out partying in bars, getting tattooed and having fun.

What's wrong with you people?

Hmm...I've got you outgeeked. I edit RPG books as a side business.

And I still play. Mostly in play-by-email games, though. Interestingly, the milieu turned into what was essentially a collaborative novel.

My gf thinks I'm crazy, obviously ...

See, at least the D&D geeks were relatively social in their geekdom. I tried to get in on an RPG once and was rejected for being a girl (we were 12, so I guess it hadn't occurred to them yet what a prize I was), so I spent most of my teenage years sitting at home by myself with my nose buried in a book or three. At the time, I thought I was doomed to eternal loneliness, but now I'm kind of glad for it, because it means I'm better read than most people I know.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

Well, what if we're a bit more Wiccanish than most Christians? Plus, we've never played D&D? Sorry, Pharoah and Caesar are my kind of games, along with Trivial Pursuit. As I type this I haven't commited suicide...unless I'm a ghost writer!!....any chance that teenage girls are more likely to commit suicide if they're constantly told they're subhuman, God doesn't work through them, they're not up the "physical beauty" standard? I'll blame D&D when I see a shirt with such imblazened on a sucide victim, until then, I'll blame the likes of the Southern Baptist Convention, and be thankful their hypocracy and nastyness led me away from them. :)

GEEKS!!!!

All of you are geeks.

I was out partying in bars, getting tattooed and having fun.

What's wrong with you people?

>>QoaE

We were meeting in dingy rec rooms, getting neat (imaginary) stuff and having fun. What's wrong with you)

Mythus, you've got me outgeeked ... and do you know of any companies that need a freelance copy editor?

My fiance said I outgeeked him because I used to play RPG's. Then he revealed that he used to do wargaming, which is basically the same thing with more math.

Geek!