Oh, and my wife doesn't say much about the price of books because a) she knows I absolutely bargain hunt and b) her first husband spent excessive amounts of money (that they didn't really have) on stereo systems and overpriced cars...a $40 book here and there seems like a steal in comparison.

We also have this understanding that as long as we have the money to spend, what the other person actually chooses to spend it on is kinda up to them.

My fiance plays RPGs and Euros with me, and she's quite good at both.  Her favorite games so far have been B/X D&D and 1e Gamma World.  I've been planning a nWoD one on one game for her; she seems really interested in Changeling.

My wife was a gamer before I met her, and she's still a gamer.

My girlfriend is always up for joining our board games, actively encourages me to play more video games with her, and wants to be more involved in my RPG hobby, but isn't yet (on account of the way our weekly schedules shake out).

The guy I'm with isn't a gamer. He takes enough of an interest in the hobby though that he knows what I'm working on and has talked to my gaming friends in the past in order to figure out what might be a good gift. We have so many other things in common, it's kind of nice that there's something that we don't do together. I'll go off and run my weekly game and he can spend hours working on some arcane programming problem.

Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;417222It seems that most of the rpgsite regulars are adults (even if they don't always act that way) and there seem to a lot of significant others out there, destroying the ol' meme from when I started to play, that gamers couldn't have girlfriends.

That definitely is a cliché that is actually not true, and needs to die, IMO.

Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;417222This is (...) to hear how your SOs reacts to the role playing thing? Do they play? Know what books you like and games you play and shop for birthdays at Noble Knight/Troll & Toad? Or are they completely indifferent to the whole rpg-thing?

My fiancée (whom I usually refer to as my "wife") is a gamer, yes. I introduced role playing to her and our friends, and we started a gaming group together. Now that gaming group doesn't meet regularly anymore, but we keep playing my wife and I from time to time using my Dunfalcon setting and my houseruled OD&D rules. She ran the game back when we were playing D&D 3.5/Arcana Evolved, and did a wonderful job at it. She'd want to run Grimm at some point, but we haven't gotten around to it yet. She knows what I enjoy, but I don't think she would exactly know which books to buy for me for birthdays/X Mas and whatnot.

My husband doesn't game. That really seems to surprise other gamers. I'd love it if he was interested in playing, but at the same time I'm lucky I have someone who will take care of the kids when I'm at a con. He was supportive of the hobby at first but now I have to be careful not to schedule too much in the way of games, which seems reasonable.

My wife doesn't RP. But she loves fantasy movies and some science fiction. She doesn't mind me playing though. I can only do one to two games a month with my schedule. She might like it less if I was playing twice a week or something.

+1 in the doesn't game but is supportive column.  One of the guys in our group gets the sneering disdain from his wife, but I think I'm more bothered by it than he is.

My wife games (and DMs on occasion) - I met her through the uni gaming club. She's into 3.5 and Call of Cthulhu, mostly. Nearly all the other people we game with are single, whether male or female.

Hmm, maybe this thread should be a poll.

My wife games.  She does a little roleplaying with me - she's currently in my weekly Slipstream game, and occasionally plays D&D with me.  She's a nice mix - on the one hand, she'd love to play the fairy/person with wings race/class, but on the other hand, she likes the combat more than the roleplaying.

She's more into board games, particularly train games.  She's currently a member of the Train Gamers Alliance, and has run board and train game sections at local cons.

This all goes back to when her brothers wouldn't let her play D&D with her when she was young, bless their hearts.

While preparing for the first date with my SO I had NO idea she gamed. Finally the freakin' cosmos did me right - turned out she was a pretty hardcore horror gamer long before we met. We've now been together for going on 8 years now. Couples that game together stick together. Uh, usually. In my case we're golden.

Her favorite games: WFRP, Hackmaster 4e, World of Darkness (especially Wraith the Oblivion), Savage Worlds, and Aces and Eights.

She is a regular in every game I run and most that I play in (sometimes work/school gets in the way), and yea, every Christmas morning we both open a LOT of gaming gifts.

She is currently mustering the courage to GM.

And I honestly believe that every Hackmaster fan longs to see his girl pimpin' her Origins Hackmaster badge. Seriously, that is my FAVORITE PG-rated picture of her. Bitch can Hack.

-=Grim=-

Mrs Orpheo plays. She joined in not long after we met and has played ever since (14 years). She doesn't share my obsession and doesn't really pursue the game as a hobby outside of the actual game, but she does buy me gaming stuff and likes the fact that, gift-wise, I'm easy to buy for. She always makes a character a character and knows the rules just enough for them not to get in the way. I sometimes wish every player was like that. It isn't all good though, she will not put out in return for xp, gp or magic items. She can't argue that I never give her diamonds.

My wife plays in my games and I play in hers.

She runs devious supernatural mysteries, where the players know that something is wrong from the off, but it takes a lot of work to figure out what and then do something about it. Very satisfying games.

She only runs FUDGE games (simple builds) as mechanics bore her from the GM's perspective. Her favourite games as a player include BRP, FUDGE and the excellent Two Fisted Tales (she's a smart broad!)

My wife is a fan of fantasy and science fiction but was not a gamer before we met.

She just played in her first series of D&D (4e) games this past year. We even got her to attend Gen Con, where she tried her first Pathfinder game.

While I would like to switch to Pathfinder, she would be happier staying with 4e.

In her exact words, "I like this one (4e) better because it is color-coded and dumbed down compared to that Pathfinder game." LOL

She does love good board games though, so it really doesn't surprise me that she has taken so well to 4th Edition. And it has been fun playing in the same games with her. Her approach to many in-game situations has been very entertaining to say the least. Who says men are the ruthless ones? LOL

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