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Posted by: SinN Jan 14 2008, 10:21 PM

I had a conversation with someone at work, and thought I had to share this with the Dumpshock community.

ME: Dude, listen to this band. They're epic.

JEREMY: *puts on headphones* Wow, they really are epic. I feel like slaying a dragon now.

ME: Slaying a Dragon? Where'd that come from?

JEREMY: I dunno, the band is just THAT epic. Will you slay a dragon with me?

ME: You are a gentlemen and a scholar, sir. I would happily die at your side in battle.

JEREMY: Ok, bring you helm of Ice so you can do 1d4 damage. Ill bring my spear of destruction and that should add to Battle cry.

ME: Ok, do you think an exploding potion is neccessary?

JEREMY: Very.

ME: Ok. Oh! And we need to get a hot elf chick in bronze armor. We'l get like 1d6 bonus just for her going into the cave.

JEREMY: Totally. But theres a problem. I can supply you a hot elf chick, but you need to get the armor.

ME: Dont sweat it, I keep a suit for just these occasions.

JEREMY: Always a boyscout. You know, you should get some extra expeireince for that.

ME: God dam right.

At this point in the conversation, I relized we were talking in a serious tone. So I qiuckly went back to work feeling ashamed and a bit confused. Kinda felt like prom.

Posted by: Stahlseele Jan 14 2008, 10:38 PM

*nods*
can you guess the looks i get when i am talking about shadowrun?
especially if i don't talk about cyber/magic or meta but pure combat/weapons?

Posted by: eidolon Jan 14 2008, 10:51 PM

Posted by: SinN Jan 14 2008, 11:04 PM

Posted by: Kyoto Kid Jan 14 2008, 11:13 PM

...yeah been there myself many times. Most often it would be equating RL tasks to skill checks like when watching someone take a nasty spill during a ski competition on TV and remarking "ooooh he crit failed that agility test, that's gonna leave a mark"

One of the better occurrences though actually happened during a session of my old Space Opera campaign:

We were taking a break and I had set the kettle on the stove to make some tea. One of my friends walked in to see me standing there looking at it and let loose with old cliché "You know a watched Kettle never boils." I stared intently at the teakettle for a few moments and all of a sudden it started whistling loudly, emitting a hefty plume of steam.. He backed off a bit and looked at me with wide eyed astonishment to which I replied "It does when you have PyroPsi" (a psionic power in the game). He went back to his chair quietly and sat down.

In actuality I could hear that the water was just about to break into a boil. The timing of his statement was too good to pass up.

Posted by: Stahlseele Jan 14 2008, 11:34 PM

ah, yes, the good old mindfucking other people untill they are not really sure any more if they actually know the guy they've been hanging out with for the better part of 3 years *g*

Posted by: bofh Jan 15 2008, 02:58 AM

Co-workers asked me what I did this weekend. I rattled on about a few things then mentioned I'd spent about $150 on game books.

"Game books?"

"Yea, the new Shadowrun book, two new Paranoia books (and one old one), and three Call of Cthulhu 1920's era books."

"What's Cthulhu?"

I showed them my Cthulhu plushie that sits on my desk and explained about the elder gods.

"Oh, and I spent $200 on a third LCD monitor and second video card for my home computer."

"Oh, _that_ we understand. "

They're avid console gamers and spent several hours each week going on about helicopters, sniper packages, and whatnot

Carl

Posted by: Kagetenshi Jan 15 2008, 07:51 AM

Just be glad it's RPGs. Combinatorics has taken over my life several times recently, and you cannot begin to imagine how quickly people's eyes start glazing over when you start talking about the power set of multisets and digraphs.

~J

Posted by: Stahlseele Jan 15 2008, 08:41 AM

*eyes glaze over*

Posted by: eidolon Jan 15 2008, 03:05 PM

Posted by: nezumi Jan 15 2008, 05:02 PM

Feh, you guys know nothing, NOTHING about RPGs taking over your life

(so says the lock-picking, firearms shooting, security-career, shamanism-studying, martial arts-training man married to a wife who literally will get 7-12 hours of continuous roleplaying A DAY 5-7 days a week.)

Posted by: Stahlseele Jan 15 2008, 05:33 PM

bedroom roleplaying does not count <.<

Posted by: Fortune Jan 15 2008, 05:52 PM

It sure as hell does!

Posted by: Moon-Hawk Jan 15 2008, 06:17 PM

Do you roll dice?

Posted by: Kyoto Kid Jan 15 2008, 06:38 PM

...and assign threshold modifiers?

Posted by: SinN Jan 15 2008, 07:30 PM

Like, to get it up, you get a -2 if the tv, or radio is on for a distraction? Or if you got some music playin to set the mood a +2? Haha.

Posted by: Fortune Jan 15 2008, 07:39 PM

Posted by: bibliophile20 Jan 16 2008, 06:52 PM

*snort* One of my friends, a fellow named Peter, has been hunting for this really superb wireless hub for me for my apartment. Unfortunately, he told me last week that his search has come up dry and he couldn't find one anywhere. My response?

"So, we just failed the availability test, didn't we?"

Posted by: PBTHHHHT Jan 16 2008, 07:00 PM

Posted by: Moon-Hawk Jan 16 2008, 07:07 PM

Posted by: nezumi Jan 16 2008, 07:23 PM

My work is more computer security than physical, and it's only for one location. However I do regularly use my building layout, guards names and so on in my games, so yes.


I currently have a Remington 870. I don't shoot especially often, since I only bought my own gun (instead of renting them at the range), it's too short to use at my preferred range, and it's cold out. But hopefully I'll get up to once every month or two, especially if I find cheap babysitting. I'm trying to get my uncle to take me shooting a handgun, since that experience would be a little more applicable to games. After that, there's a range where you can rent automatic guns, but that's waiting until we get our mortgage payments down a notch or two. So I wouldn't call myself a gun-nut, but I'm getting there bit by bit.

Posted by: fistandantilus3.0 Jan 16 2008, 08:21 PM

Posted by: DTFarstar Jan 16 2008, 10:46 PM

Me and my friends converted from DnD to SR4 and I'm the one constantly reminding people of the changing terminology and stuff between the games.

Me and a friend were in my living room and he was looking for his folder in all the crap my roommate leaves on my couch. He couldn't find it and was like "Dammit, I failed my fucking search check." I gave him an admonishing look and said "That's Perception Test, Archie. Damn." Then we both realized we had been completely serious and looked around hoping no one had noticed... that is when everyone in the room burst into laughter.

Chris

Posted by: PBTHHHHT Jan 16 2008, 11:24 PM

Posted by: HellHound Jan 17 2008, 02:32 PM

It's not a problem as long as you can figure out a way to make a living from it. Worked for me for a while, but then I realized that it was a very SLIM living, so I went back to the real world of work instead.

But we routinely have conversations using game system analogies. What's worse is that these conversations often include our children too.

Posted by: nezumi Jan 17 2008, 02:53 PM

Wow, thanks for the offer, I might just take you up on that! As always, the big problem is child care, but with three adults, I'm sure we can figure out something. I look forward to getting showed up by my wife yet again

Posted by: SinN Jan 18 2008, 05:12 AM

Three adults! What kind of relations do you got?

Posted by: nezumi Jan 18 2008, 02:31 PM

You mean where are my relatives? Well my parents are in the Netherlands, my wife's parents are each at least three hundred miles away. My brother is in the area, although he's a college student, so he isn't always available.

What an odd question...

Posted by: Fortune Jan 18 2008, 02:36 PM

Posted by: nezumi Jan 18 2008, 04:05 PM

Me, my wife, PBTHHHHHT. I don't live at PBTHHHHT's house.

However, if there were multiple adults, I'd have to take credit for siring all the children.

(And for the record, the children we DO have do belong to more than one adult. I wonder what sort of weird asexual budding goes on in Fortune's house, though.)

Posted by: PBTHHHHT Jan 18 2008, 04:15 PM

yeah, I think he misunderstood what you meant when you said with three adults thinking that the three are all in a relationship/living arrangement. Instead of your meaning that between you, your wife, and I (the three adults) we can figure out how to arrange for you to be available from child watching duties.

Posted by: fistandantilus3.0 Jan 18 2008, 04:41 PM

SinN really should be talking anyway. He lives in Utah, and almost ended up rooming with us for a while.

Which really is probably for the best (this is where we go back to topic ), because a bunch of gamers living together, damn, you'd never get anything but runs done. Am I right nezumi? The one time I had a roommate that gamed, we played all the frickin' time. I actually got sick of it because it wasw all he seemed to want to do. Now, in hind sight, that may have just been because I was always running the game. But that quickly leads to the sort of thing SinN was walking about, where one of your dork friends (or in my case, just me) trips over something, and everyone chuckles about how you failed your Reaction test. We are a sad, sad lot. A happy sad lot, but still sad.

That's the first time I had a reason to use that emoticon! I'm so happy!

Posted by: DTFarstar Jan 18 2008, 05:00 PM

I promise, Fisty, we don't need to ask her.

Chris

Posted by: fistandantilus3.0 Jan 18 2008, 09:30 PM

Posted by: Fortune Jan 18 2008, 09:41 PM

Posted by: fistandantilus3.0 Jan 18 2008, 09:48 PM

How can you be on the receiving end of asexual .... eh never mind. Rather not go there.

We still love you Fortune. Well, the rest of us do. But Grinder called you a namby-pamby the other day.

Posted by: PBTHHHHT Jan 18 2008, 10:30 PM

Posted by: fistandantilus3.0 Jan 18 2008, 11:20 PM

Fortune = HairyTick. funny.

*walks off ashamed for helping thread derailment.Notes that still posted it.slaps own hand.*

Posted by: shadowfire Jan 19 2008, 12:57 AM

you sir are an addict.

I've never had such a conversion in my life. Some small part of me thinks this is sad that i have not. I have, however, worked with a GM and we would every day talk about what was going on in game and i would tell him what my characters future plans were. Which tended to be interesting, humorous, and hurtful to others. The others being the NPCs that i aimed them at.

Posted by: ElFenrir Jan 19 2008, 02:10 AM

All the time. Usually using terms like ''Failing a Perception Roll'' when i can't find something, getting a ''Critical Glitch on my ____ skill'' when i totally #&¤% something up, my husband making his Negotation(Bargian) rolls when we were in New York last week, in Chinatown, buying random stuff from those shops they have all around, and the like. You do get odd looks when the people don't get it, but when someone DOES game and actually understand what you say it's a great thing.


BTW...epic band...were you listening to either A. Dragonforce B. Avantasia or C. Some sort of Viking metal?

Posted by: Nikoli Jan 19 2008, 04:34 AM

mmm, Viking metal.....

Posted by: Fortune Jan 19 2008, 04:45 AM

Posted by: SinN Jan 19 2008, 05:20 AM

Posted by: ElFenrir Jan 19 2008, 09:16 AM

Posted by: Grinder Jan 19 2008, 09:24 AM

Posted by: mrslamm0 Jan 29 2008, 08:19 PM

Oh man I think my RPG group of about 8-9 yrs has just been discribed in these two pages! We have done all that from calling out skill checks when we screw something up to calling cops lone star or knight errant. Heck we even visited a rl location to see what it was like so one our group members could build a background and safe house there in game terms. Ahh any more and ill just be ranting but yah call me a dork, a nerd a dork just dont call me late for a Shadowrun game =)

Posted by: lunchbox311 Jan 29 2008, 08:28 PM

Posted by: kanislatrans Feb 1 2008, 08:44 PM

I caught my three year old daughter having a teaparty with her stuffed animals the other day. she was putting dice in all the cups and I thought "wow, that is sooo cute"

thenn she threw a d20 at the teddy bear and said"roll inish,motherf*cker!"



guess we have to watch our cityspeak around the little ones alittle better(grin)

Posted by: Grinder Feb 1 2008, 09:29 PM

Posted by: apollo124 Feb 2 2008, 01:24 PM

I miss being around other gamers. Me and my crew used to have conversations like this all the time.

At one point, one of the other GM's would get together with some of the other players and go "Bowling for Magical Items" for his D+D game. Meaning, yes, bowling and the winner either gets a new magic item if he wins, or loses one if he lost. GM was apparently not a great bowler, since I never heard of anyone losing anything.

Me and one of my buddies once had a conversation that lasted about 45 minutes about the different types of low-light vision and infravision and how they would appear to someone using them.

And are RPG's taking over your life when you mutter Sperethiel curse words about your coworkers under your breath? I've almost used "Makkanagee morkhan" to death. You gotta know my coworkers, trust me it fits. And if I'm not muttering Sperethiel, it's a little Klingon, or Clanspeak(Battletech) or Chinese(Firefly). Dong ma?

Or maybe I'm just nuts. That theory has been put forward more than once. By more than one person.

Posted by: mrslamm0 Feb 8 2008, 09:52 PM

QUOTE (lunchbox311 @ Jan 29 2008, 04:28 PM)

Then to top it off we made a shadowrun comic.

*shakes head*

Posted by: kanislatrans Feb 10 2008, 06:11 PM

Hi, I'm Kanis an I'm a rpg addict.
I didn't intend to end up a gaming addict. I started out Just playing DnD on the weekends,maybe read a little WoD after work to relax. But over time I found myself moving into the hard stuff. I'll never forget the euphoria of the first time I touched a Shadowrun source book. I was hooked
recently, I was hanging out at a geek haven, trying to score some info on move-by-wire systems for one of my characters,when I found a thread that has really put my addiction over the edge. Now I am attempting to write a story about shadowrun. I am finding it hard to consentrate on any thing other than my story. I walk down the street and catch myself dropping into character and checking my 6 in store windows. I stay up late and work on my story even though I have to work in the morning. My wife says she getting lonely. the other day I snuck home on my lunch break just to edit a paragraph that had been bugging me for three days. and stayed home an extra hour. I am so embarrassed.
I tried to get some help but the my family just looks at me funny. The only friends I have are also gamers, so there not really much help. My Gm(=dealer) tried to help by loaning me his PDF of street magic. Its keeping the shakes away but I still catch myself logging into Dumpshock any time I let my guard down. I am hoping after I get the story edited that I can get my life back on track.

thanks for listening.
keep your head down and your hoop covered,chummers

*crap, there I go again. *

Posted by: SinN Feb 16 2008, 01:33 PM

QUOTE (apollo124 @ Feb 2 2008, 09:24 AM)

Posted by: Sir_Psycho Feb 19 2008, 01:48 PM

I remember saying once, while watching some garbage men load a truck, something like "Man, those chemsuits look so inadequate, rating 2 at best."

Posted by: bibliophile20 Mar 16 2008, 03:40 AM

Been playing too much D&D lately (since my SR campaign ended). I know this because I'm cleaning up my apartment and moving one of those plastic wheeled cabinets. When I was moving it one of the sets of wheels came off, nearly dumped the entire cabinet's contents on the floor and I nearly tripped on it.

My first immediate thought?

"Hah! Your caster level isn't high enough..."

*shrugs* Bad puns and too much gaming, what can I say?

Posted by: kookyjeld Mar 18 2008, 04:11 PM

I was once discussing possible baby names with my boyfriend, and the name "Damien Knight" came to mind pretty quickly. It would be better than Dunkelzahn, I guess!

Posted by: nezumi Mar 18 2008, 05:21 PM

The fact I have a child named Lucien is a complete coincidence (although it is related to the fact that my brother is already named Damien for unrelated reasons and I didn't want to copy) - but the connection had occurred to me.

Posted by: Kyoto Kid Mar 19 2008, 05:24 PM

QUOTE (bibliophile20 @ Mar 15 2008, 07:40 PM)

Been playing too much D&D lately (since my SR campaign ended). I know this because I'm cleaning up my apartment and moving one of those plastic wheeled cabinets. When I was moving it one of the sets of wheels came off, nearly dumped the entire cabinet's contents on the floor and I nearly tripped on it.

My first immediate thought?

"Hah! Your caster level isn't high enough..."

*shrugs* Bad puns and too much gaming, what can I say?

Posted by: bibliophile20 Mar 19 2008, 06:15 PM

QUOTE (Kyoto Kid @ Mar 19 2008, 12:24 PM)

...thats 2D10 Pun damage, NST.

Posted by: CircuitBoyBlue Mar 19 2008, 08:32 PM

Once, probably in about 2005, I was smack in the middle of the last SR2 campaign I was in. This was an SR2 campaign among people that had been playing the game for 10-15 years, and we were pulling out all the stops. We pretty much all knew that we weren't going to get to game together again, because we'd all just finished college, and were about to head out into the world, so we were throwing out all the stories that had ever stuck in our heads during our entire SR careers, and we were using our unemployed schedules to game for days on end while we still could. About three days into one of our sessions, a couple of us went out for a food run, and on the way we were discussing our attack plan for how were were going to pull off the next phase of the run, and what everyone's roles would be. While we were in the store, my friend and I started to discuss the stupidity of the group troll. Here's the thing: we both looked around before saying anything derogatory about trolls. As if we were expecting there to be a troll in the store that would get offended at our racist remarks. That's when I knew I was too far in to get out easily. When I was afraid of being racist against beings that don't exist.