Which crowd are you in?

[BeachGurl2]

You know, I went to school with guys like you. My friends and I stayed far, far away. They scared us bad. You're starting to scare me, too. I'm going to go away now.

 

[SpectreT]

I just realized the similarities between RPG geeks and Indie Rock geeks.

We rattle off a list of obscure games as a way to establish our "geek cred".

Here's a (partial) list.

GURPS
-Time Travel
-Cyberpunk
-Fantasy
-Several "No one's made a game for it yet" genres. One long, kickass Star Trek campaign. We went from cadets to Bridge Crew on a Miranda-class vessel, the USS Decker. (this led to the thrown object inducing joke, "It's the Double Decker!" from a player who shall go unnamed, and isn't me.)

Every incarnation and release of Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Every Star Trek Role Playing Game, from FASA's through Last Unicorn's to Decipher's.

Marvel Superheroes

DC Heroes, 2nd edition
DC Heroes, 3rd Edition

Paranoia

Traveller (1st ed, as well)

Shatterzone

Star Wars, the Roleplaying Game, by West End Games, and its WoTC d20 descendant.

Stargate, The Role Playing Game. (also a d20)

Serenity, the Role Playing Game (uses the Soverign Stone rules)

Never went in for the LARP thing. Did fart around in an SCA event or two, but never formally joined.

 

[Mamid]

Gurps
- superheroes
- calahan's
- fantasy
Cyberpunk
Rifts
Star Trek RPG
Every single version of DnD too from the first release to 3.5 (and I still have most of my first set of dice)
DC Heroes
Elfquest (which I still have)
Paranoia (the computer is my friend)
Red Dwarf the RPG
Deadlands: Weird West
Deadlands: Rail wars (part of weird west)
Deadlands: Hell on Earth
Battletech (both the rpg that I'm sure was out and the minis game)

I paint minis up to contest quality. Slop and go are not my forte.

I own a set of Dwarven Forge - 11 or so boxes.

I have a set of amethyst dice

I have several sets of mini dice and then there's my giant dice - useful for when people are cheating. Make them roll _that_

And, to top it off, I have a set of stuffed dice.

Penalt is also a bribable gm. Things were getting out of hand at one game. I had to resort to blow jobs to keep my character alive.

hey.. wait a minute there...

 

[Aeroil]

*scratches head*

I think things like "sci-fi" are terribly shallow things on which to form relationships around.

I'm not really in a crowd... the nearest thing I have to a group of friends is a group of classmates :3

 

[Bredon]

I think things like "sci-fi" are terribly shallow things on which to form relationships around.

You have *no* idea, my dear

 

[Aeroil]

You have *no* idea, my dear

To claim that "Aeroil knows nothing" is as foolish as it is contradictory.

Aeroil knows all, I am a philosopher and a seer with a wit and intellect as keen as a two-dimensional blade: Infinitely.

The range of personalities that are interested in things like "Sci-Fi", or in my case, Computers, is an extremely vast one. To form a relationship on such a thing almost guarantees you that you will have *only* that one thing in common, and thus the relationship becomes my definition of "Shallow".

:3

 

[neonflux]

I don't _usually_ go to Trek conventions... I go to SF cons! This last Dragon*Con was the first I had missed since 1994. Damned heart attack 10 days before the con will do that to ya!

Thank you for the "Sir" you tacked on there Neon. Please understand that I appreciate the honorific *smiles* but it is not at all necessary. But if, and only if, I rate that title in your eyes, please feel free to continue using it.

As for the 0==={==========>, that's a sword, the bold black supposed to be representing Stormbringer. Stormbringer was a mind-bogglingly powerful black runesword, capable of slay gods (and a nasty habit of killing the friends and family of whoever wielded the sword!)...

Thank you for the explanation! I googled the saga - if it's the one I found written by Moorcock, it sounds like the dark sort of tale I like. Neon

 

[Evil_Geoff]

Thank you for the explanation! I googled the saga - if it's the one I found written by Moorcock, it sounds like the dark sort of tale I like. Neon

It is indeed the saga by Moorcock, I think you'll enjoy it a lot. *grins*

The tales of the Eternal Champion (Elric is but one incarnation of the Champion) form an incredible story line. Awesome reading!

 

[Xelebes]

*scratches head*

I think things like "sci-fi" are terribly shallow things on which to form relationships around.

I'm not really in a crowd... the nearest thing I have to a group of friends is a group of classmates :3

Bysci-0fi, I kind of allude to the kink nature of "sci-fi", in terms of structure of any kink action and the sort.

 

[TNRkitect2b]

You probably get Buffett for the same reason I do - just a hometown boy. Jackson isn't that far from Mobile, you know. Interestingly enough, when he comes to Phoenix, he sells out, too. And his place in Vegas on the Strip is always packed.

Yup, though I blame my mom for my liking him.

When he came through Nashville in '76 or '77, she couldn't find a baby sitter, so I was her date to the show. Been a parrothead ever since.

But musically, he writes what he experiences, with embellishments as needed. Though often, reality was more interesting than fantasy.

 

[FurryFury]

Fury, and you're kinky too! I think I'm in love... and I'm gonna make you turn GREEN! ! !

My 1st ed Morrow Project is autographed by Richard Tucholka.

As are my copies of Fringeworthy and FTL:2448 We play tested a buncha stuff for him when he was gaming with the Detroit Metro Gamers back in the late 70's early 80's...

AD&D, gawd... I was playing Runequest, Stormbringer, Champions, Villains & Vigilantes, Traveller (1st ed, thank you!), Star Trek the RPG, Call of Cthulu, and so many other games... *sighs* Damn I miss that.

My regular gaming buddies switched to stuff like Starfleet Battles, BattleTech and other miniatures/wargames. I got tired of the "must buy new supplement each week to keep up with new rules, new equipment, what everyone else has" design philosophy of most of the tactical wargames.

And damnit! I miss playing Dark Confrontation LARP too!

Is indeed envious!

*blushes in reaction to compliments*

Did anyone else ever play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the role playing game? It was amazingly fun.

I always have wanted to LARP and do a Pern based game.

Fury

 

[SpectreT]

Several things, in no particular order:

Aeroil, I tend to find the reverse is true. Sci-Fi is a good "common ground" jumping off point to begin a relationship with, for the reasons you mentioned as making it "shallow". From there, each partner in the relationship can explore the differences in each other, and still have the home base of Science Fiction to go back to. Hell, Sci-Fi is so varied and large a genre, there aren't any true "Must Read, or you're not into Sci-Fi" books. But, to quote Dennis Miller, "That's just my opinion, I could be wrong."

Mamid, and now FurryFury, have reminded me of an entire publisher whose games I left off my "RPG geek cred" list: Palladium.

Palladium
Robotech, The Role Playing Game.
Heroes Unlimited, second and third editions (or second edition, revised, whatever... Purple cover and white cover books) (which just reinforces my belief that EXP and level-based gaming doesn't work all that well for superheroes)

 

[Netzach]

BDSM is a remarkably shallow basis for friendships. However when you meet someone in the "you like BDSM" context you at least know you are not in for the pain and suffering of totally incompatible sexual interests.

The funny thing I remember is leaving the munch with my now-husbands phone number and a tingly vertiginous "I like that guy" feeling. Dreading the suspicion that "that guy" was some Dom in training straight guy 'cause we talked about living in Chicago and movies and he made a crack when I was testing a cane out on myself that intimated he'd be happy to use it on me (dork) but calling anyway.

I've never been so happy to be so wrong on so many assumptions.

 

[BeachGurl2]

Yup, though I blame my mom for my liking him.

When he came through Nashville in '76 or '77, she couldn't find a baby sitter, so I was her date to the show. Been a parrothead ever since.

But musically, he writes what he experiences, with embellishments as needed. Though often, reality was more interesting than fantasy.

Ever read any of his books? They're pretty good, too. Just picked up Salty Piece of Land and plan to read it next week. They always remind me of home.

 

[TNRkitect2b]

Ever read any of his books? They're pretty good, too. Just picked up Salty Piece of Land and plan to read it next week. They always remind me of home.

Own all of them.

He is a storyteller, through and through.

The funny thing I like to remind people of when they poo-pooh him as a writer, is that he is in the ranks of only 6 other people who have reached the achievement of having #1 best sellers in the NY TImes in both fiction and non-fiction. He shares this status with Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Irving Wallace, Dr. Seuss and Mitch Albom.

Not bad for a country boy born in Mississippi and raised in coastal Alabama.

 

[TNRkitect2b]

As for sci-fi, I have some geek cred, having played D&D from back when the manuals were covered in line drawings that looked like the illustrator was on acid up through the AD&D second Edition. Once they started branching out into all of the various source books and specializing, It quickly outgrew my pocketbook.

I also used to play a Star Trek Miniatures table top game that FASA produced for a while then lost the licensing rights to. I remember that it used pewter miniature starships on a hexagon map.

I have played the Battle Tech minis, and enjoyed Cyberpunk there for a while.

Unfortunately my geek cred has waned over the years as I got into computers instead.

 

[Evil_Geoff]

Mamid, and now FurryFury, have reminded me of an entire publisher whose games I left off my "RPG geek cred" list: Palladium.

Palladium
Robotech, The Role Playing Game.
Heroes Unlimited, second and third editions (or second edition, revised, whatever... Purple cover and white cover books) (which just reinforces my belief that EXP and level-based gaming doesn't work all that well for superheroes)

*grins* Played TMNT a few times but my Palladium credits go back to the original Mechanoid Invasion... paperback, digest sized, three books in the original set... OMG nasty mother ships the size of North America, individual mechanoids the size of wet-navy destroyers. THAT was an SF game from hell, lemme tell you! WOOT!

Peeps, I was a gaming geek BEFORE there were gaming geeks! *LOL* I was playing the original D&D in 1977... Buncha pups y'all are!

 

[TNRkitect2b]

Buncha pups y'all are!

Careful there, that was when I started playing D&D as well EDIT: Yes, I can do math... I played my first game at the age of 6. My mom's boyfriend at the time thought it would be cute to let me, plus it would stop my bugging him )

Of course, all of my source books disappeared along with the rest of my books sometime within the last five years of being in school

 

[Evil_Geoff]

Careful there, that was when I started playing D&D as well

Of course, all of my source books disappeared along with the rest of my books sometime within the last five years of being in school

Oh man, that is a serious bummer! I still have most of mine, but a few pieces are gone...
My 1st (hardbound) ed Deities & Demigods, the one with the Cthulu mythos and Lahnkmar mythos in it (even though TSR did NOT have the gaming rights to those fictional worlds)...
Some of my original D&D books...
A box of Silver Age Marvel & DC comics I had collected since I was about 6 years old... (I coulda shot my Mom when I found out she tossed that box of comics out... I had Amazing Spiderman and X-Men comics from the 60's that would sell in the $100's of dollars range now!)

Oh well... Life goes on!

 

[TNRkitect2b]

Oh man, that is a serious bummer! I still have most of mine, but a few pieces are gone...
My 1st (hardbound) ed Deities & Demigods, the one with the Cthulu mythos and Lahnkmar mythos in it (even though TSR did NOT have the gaming rights to those fictional worlds)...
Some of my original D&D books...
A box of Silver Age Marvel & DC comics I had collected since I was about 6 years old... (I coulda shot my Mom when I found out she tossed that box of comics out... I had Amazing Spiderman and X-Men comics from the 60's that would sell in the $100's of dollars range now!)

Oh well... Life goes on!

Yes, I had kept ahold of all my 1st eds, including that one.

But it along with the other 7 or 8 boxes of books have disappeared, and are no where to be found.

 

[FurryFury]

*grins* Played TMNT a few times but my Palladium credits go back to the original Mechanoid Invasion... paperback, digest sized, three books in the original set... OMG nasty mother ships the size of North America, individual mechanoids the size of wet-navy destroyers. THAT was an SF game from hell, lemme tell you! WOOT!

Peeps, I was a gaming geek BEFORE there were gaming geeks! *LOL* I was playing the original D&D in 1977... Buncha pups y'all are!

LOL!

I started playing around that time too. It was soooo much fun!

Fury

 

[Aeroil]

Aeroil, I tend to find the reverse is true. Sci-Fi is a good "common ground" jumping off point to begin a relationship with, for the reasons you mentioned as making it "shallow". From there, each partner in the relationship can explore the differences in each other, and still have the home base of Science Fiction to go back to. Hell, Sci-Fi is so varied and large a genre, there aren't any true "Must Read, or you're not into Sci-Fi" books. But, to quote Dennis Miller, "That's just my opinion, I could be wrong."

Mamid, and now FurryFury, have reminded me of an entire publisher whose games I left off my "RPG geek cred" list: Palladium.

Palladium
Robotech, The Role Playing Game.
Heroes Unlimited, second and third editions (or second edition, revised, whatever... Purple cover and white cover books) (which just reinforces my belief that EXP and level-based gaming doesn't work all that well for superheroes)

Oh eff, nothing wrong with exploring from a starting point. Not that I'd know, but doesn't every relationship work that way? I actually mean friendships as much as romantic relationships, though.

I have hypothesized this "just BDSM is a shallow thing to base a relationship off of" statement myself. 'course, the nearest munch group is one city over, since Kamloops is full of frigging rednecks, so I've never been to see for myself...

 

[FurryFury]

Oh eff, nothing wrong with exploring from a starting point. Not that I'd know, but doesn't every relationship work that way? I actually mean friendships as much as romantic relationships, though.

I have hypothesized this "just BDSM is a shallow thing to base a relationship off of" statement myself. 'course, the nearest munch group is one city over, since Kamloops is full of frigging rednecks, so I've never been to see for myself...

I live in the middle of "redneck country." You might find many of them are nicer than you seem to think.

Fury

 

[neonflux]

I live in the middle of "redneck country." You might find many of them are nicer than you seem to think.

Fury

When I coordinated a national training program in HIV education (early 90's), I learned a great deal about not making assumptions.

I remember one of our teams - from a small town in Georgia. To others outside of the south (I grew up in Texas, BTW) the teamleader definitely fit the stereotypical "redneck" in terms of his looks. He was one of the kindest men I've ever met - teammembers (very integrated) were the same.

His response to the sessions on queer youth? That he was glad for what he had learned and that when he got home, he was going to call the town's out gay couple and ask if they'd be willing to help put together an anti-homophobia presentation for the students at the high school...

I loved that project and the people I met. If he was a redneck, then I toast all of ya'll! ~ Neon

 

[i_love_myself76]

I live in the middle of "redneck country." You might find many of them are nicer than you seem to think.

Fury

Hmmmmm I am redneck and think Im pretty nice unless it cums to my subs but hey that is what they want