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.

*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?

...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.

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*

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

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

*eyes glaze over*

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.)

bedroom roleplaying does not count <.<

It sure as hell does!

Do you roll dice?

...and assign threshold modifiers?

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.

*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?"

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.

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

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.

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

Three adults! What kind of relations do you got?

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...

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.)

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.

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.

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

Chris

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.

Fortune = HairyTick. funny.

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

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.

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?

mmm, Viking metal.....

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 =)

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)

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.