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Does your SO give you hell for your gaming hobby?

Started by RPGPundit, June 04, 2011, 12:59:03 PM

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Spellslinging Sellsword

#15
June 04, 2011, 05:15:38 PM
If I'm GM my wife is usually a player in the game because the sessions are held at our house. If I'm just a player (which means it's not at our place), she usually doesn't play so that we don't have to pay for babysitting.

David Johansen

#16
June 04, 2011, 05:24:49 PM
hmmm...well, my wife doesn't really get it.  She tries hard and she'll come to games but she rarely stays awake through a session.  Though that did get worse when we had kids.
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Bedrockbrendan

#17
June 04, 2011, 05:40:30 PM
My wife puts up pretty well with me playing and publishing games. She even cooks for everyone or prepares snacks once in a while.

Ramrod

#18
June 04, 2011, 05:52:27 PM
I met my girlfriend at our monday gaming club, so the answers pretty obvious.
Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.

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dekaranger

#19
June 04, 2011, 06:12:06 PM
He only gives me hell when he thinks the gm is playing favorites towards me.  So no real problems since we play at the same table together.
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Simlasa

#20
June 04, 2011, 06:23:29 PM
Gaming has never been an issue with any of my GF's... but I have a bad history of going out with women who I don't really have much in common with... I should really stop doing that.

tellius

#21
June 04, 2011, 06:24:07 PM
Quote from: ptingler;462290If I'm GM my wife is usually a player in the game because the sessions are held at our house. If I'm just a player (which means it's not at our place), she usually doesn't play so that we don't have to pay for babysitting.

+1 on this. The times I have gone off to game without her, she has gotten shitty. This means that I typically can't go gaming by myself.

Benoist

#22
June 04, 2011, 08:19:02 PM
My SO games with me.

IceBlinkLuck

#23
June 04, 2011, 08:22:12 PM
My current SO is a gamer as well, so no problems there. In the past I've dated non-gamers, but it wasn't a big issue.

On a side note. At a recent cook-out at a friends house, I heard his wife talking to someone else's girlfriend about the gaming hobby. The wife said something I thought was pretty funny. "Yeah, I don't get the hobby, but there are a lot more dangerous hobbies he could have picked."
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One Horse Town

#24
June 04, 2011, 08:25:41 PM
Tolerance. Nothing more and nothing less.

Pretty much the same as if i was a golfer, stamp collector, or serial soap opera addict.

flyingmice

#25
June 04, 2011, 09:54:40 PM
My wife and son are both avid gamers. Never a problem.

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Brad J. Murray

#26
June 04, 2011, 09:58:14 PM
My wife doesn't game but she loves a house full of gamers (well, geeks of any stripe, really). So no, I don't catch any grief for it. If I leave her alone to game elsewhere I get the same flack I might for any other event that excludes her. Which is to say pretty much none, since that doesn't happen much.

Cranewings

#27
June 04, 2011, 10:10:59 PM
My fiancee thinks I get depressed if I become too much of a hermit (which may or may not be true), so she usually tells me to go game, even if I wasn't planning to. Besides the Sims, she doesn't play anything.

Gaming certainly doesn't bother her.

Malleus Arianorum

#28
June 05, 2011, 01:06:03 AM
Things have been good with my wife. She doesn't game herself but she encourages me to take time for my gaming hobby.
 
That said, she occasionaly will make offhanded remarks about how my characters are uncool. "Why are you playing a dwarf again? Wouldn't you rather play Spider-Man? It seems to me that superheros are much stronger than dwarves."
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Yevla

#29
June 05, 2011, 09:00:52 AM
As a side note to the original topic, did anyone else's SO only play certain games? My ex-fiance was a very enthusiastic gamer, but she would only play certain genres, like Vampire the Masquerade* or GURPS Black Ops, because she could relate to those through her favorite novels or tv shows (she loved X-Files, thus the love for Black Ops). She would refuse to play D&D, stating that she just didn't care for fantasy or medieval times.

*- my current hatred of V:tM may or may not be related to this fact, but thats another thread.
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