Dogs On Snowboards, Cats In Hang Gliders

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Stuff, Damn It, Stuff!

1: Something wonderful may happen today or tomorrow. More details if it does.

2: It just dawned on me last night that this week marks 30 years of roleplaying for me. Yep, my first D&D game was in November, 1976. And that made me think of this…

The “Average” Roleplaying Gamer

So, Mr. or Ms. non-gamer, you think you know what a roleplayer is: some fat geeky guy without a girlfriend who still lives at home and has no social life. Well, think again. I’ve been playing RPGs for 30 years and I’ve met hundreds (and heard of/read about hundreds more) gamers and here is what they are…

Fat…skinny…average…male…female…adults…teens…kids…gay…straight…lesbian…transgendered…Democrats…Republicans…Independents…Greens…Liberals…Conservatives…geniuses…mentally challenged…healthy…plagued by illness or genetic disorders…atheletes…actors…rocket scientists…every other type of scientist…artists…members of the armed forces…soccer moms…blue collar…white collar…lawyers…doctors…minimum wage workers….dads…moms…grandparents…respectable citizens…lowlifes…kinky…vanilla…clean & sober…druggies & drunks…bikers…wimps…boring…fascinating…small business owners…farmers…socially inept…totally cool…handsome guys…gorgeous babes…average looking….ugly…amazingly creative…creativity challenged…hilariously funny…humor deprived…Catholics…Baptists…Atheists…Agnostics…Jews…Muslims…Protestants…Hindus…every other shade of religion…dog lovers…cat lovers…techies…tech challenged…good…bad…somewhere in between…Americans…citizens of dozens of other countries.

And that’s just scratching the surface. So stop telling me you know what roleplaying gamers are like. You don’t have a fucking clue.