Weird or just smart?

Blue-cat
May 7, 2007 at 11:06 PM
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I am considered by many, including Hubbie, odd in at least one respect:

I admit to role-playing to people at work.

They know I do Dungeons & Dragons, many know I do other stuff during the week (Pendragon & Spycraft currently). Some remember when I did LARP (oWOD Camarilla UK).

so - are you 'out of the dice bag' at work?

I have a D20 blue tacked to my monitor! When asked 'what are you doing this weekend?' the answer may well be 'Role-play Saturday, XYZ Sunday', And yes, I do get the weird looks and sometimes the quizzical questions as I have to explain, no, not that sort of (sex game) role-play :P

But I can also spin it - indeed I once needed to give a presentation on 'something' at work so chose the reasons to RP. It gives confidence in group settings, you can learn your limits with leadership - is it natural, do you have to work on it? - it involves team work, negotiation and puzzle solving, tactical thinking and trying to understand stuff. It is escapism, cathartic and great stress relief.

But do you admit this dark shameful secret to work colleagues?

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I won't admit it, unless they ask, but many people are surprised when they learn I'm a gaming geek. Half the time, they think I have too much time on my hands...or I don't have enough hobbies! As if...!

I don't role-play but if I did I wouldn't have any problem admitting it. I do play an online MMO (not THAT MMO, sorry) and have never had a problem with telling people about it. Mostly though, it's so out of the realm of something they'd do it's harder to explain what it is than it would be to divulge the fact that I play it.

I do. If I was playing D&D, and someone asks what I was doing over the weekend, I tell 'em. I mean it isn't like I spent the whole weekend shopping or at dinner with other boring yuppies.

i love it when i try to explain the game i play (WoW) and all the other people i work with just give me weird looks. But if i talk to someone who actually plays it then we just babble for a long while and then people give us BOTH weird looks. lol i love it.

I wouldn't be ashamed. I would act like "Why don't you roleplay? ya freak!!" :)

My coworkers are well aware of my gaming/rp/geekiness and are quite curious about it...I've even gotten people to be more comfortable within our team by bringing in boardgames to play at lunch...I think it is a very good confidence building activity too!!

Ha not only do I admit - I am always defending the game industry and the positives it brings to people. When I was still in University (Playing some UO as well as D&D-ing at that time) I did a research project on the potential value of online roleplay games for socially disadvantaged youth. Got me an ace grade on it too....

I'd have loved to do my Master's Thesis on 'gaming as a microcosm of life'.

I shamelessly admit I'm a geek. After all, whats wrong with doing somehting you enjoy? ^_^

Absolutely! Thankfully it is considered 'harmless eccentric' rather than 'dangerous whacko' :)

Sadly, many people still think i'm a dangerous whacko, becuase i'm weird, really weird.

Weird is both obvious, as in appearance, and not obvious :) I am 40 female & blonde, you don't expect me to be weird weird but... I can gross most people out, and there are times I just seriously do not give a sh- what people think about me. But work is one place I feel I have to maintain a certain veneer of respectability if only cause I like food :) Its fantasy, make believe for grown-ups. Some are happy with it and others not. Oh, and I am currently drunk.

Weird or just smart?

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