I'm no gamer
Jan. 20th, 2004 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaySomething that came up this evening in a workshop ("Working Together") at akienm's house... discussion led to an idea for an exercise that would require assigned roles and character-playing. A comment was "this should be easy for those of us who play RPGs." I raised my hand. "I've never played an RPG." (silence) Then dawnd said "Really, Brian, given your traits I'm surprised." I suppose that if I wanted to ding myself, I could say something about real life roleplaying being more challenging than things involving multi-sided dice... but that's a trait that I'm actually trying to minimize.
In any case, I stretched the truth slightly -- in early 1981, while visiting a friend's college dorm, I was enlisted in a D&D game once. I spent some interminable time rolling dice to determine character traits... then only an hour actually playing before my character was killed off. That's all I remember. Nothing in the ensuing 23 years, no role-playing games. Hardly any games at all, actually... I'm not a gamer. No video or electronic or online games over that time period, either, except for the occasional challenge from one of the kids or Pat. That particular flavor of escapism has simply never appealed to me. Some board games were played in social settings, but that has been more as a social activity than for the game's own sake.
Otherwise, as far as the rest of my weekend goes... I spent today and yesterday doing household chores (weeding out flower beds, spraying the roses, repairing an electrical fixture).patgreene and I had a good talk over dinner last night. On Saturday night, I went ballroom dancing with woodsbunny, who was visiting here from Oregon. I really like to dance... wish I could find a friend or partner locally who was willing to go. Saturday afternoon I spent over at dawnd's house, along with David and Kevin, cleaning up things. Friday afternoon was spent mostly online, talking on IM with dawnd and who_is_she as a crisis erupted. Friday night I spent away in a low-key evening with p3aches and kokoro43, watching a video of "A Mighty Wind" over at kokoro43's house and cuddling a bit afterwards. We collectively ran into p3aches's husband C and his new sweetie K at the same restaurant... p3aches and K had never met in person before... it was interesting.
akienm's house... discussion led to an idea for an exercise that would require assigned roles and character-playing. A comment was "this should be easy for those of us who play RPGs." I raised my hand. "I've never played an RPG." (silence) Then dawnd said "Really, Brian, given your traits I'm surprised." I suppose that if I wanted to ding myself, I could say something about real life roleplaying being more challenging than things involving multi-sided dice... but that's a trait that I'm actually trying to minimize. In any case, I stretched the truth slightly -- in early 1981, while visiting a friend's college dorm, I was enlisted in a D&D game once. I spent some interminable time rolling dice to determine character traits... then only an hour actually playing before my character was killed off. That's all I remember. Nothing in the ensuing 23 years, no role-playing games. Hardly any games at all, actually... I'm not a gamer. No video or electronic or online games over that time period, either, except for the occasional challenge from one of the kids or Pat. That particular flavor of escapism has simply never appealed to me. Some board games were played in social settings, but that has been more as a social activity than for the game's own sake.
Otherwise, as far as the rest of my weekend goes... I spent today and yesterday doing household chores (weeding out flower beds, spraying the roses, repairing an electrical fixture).
patgreene and I had a good talk over dinner last night. On Saturday night, I went ballroom dancing with woodsbunny, who was visiting here from Oregon. I really like to dance... wish I could find a friend or partner locally who was willing to go. Saturday afternoon I spent over at dawnd's house, along with David and Kevin, cleaning up things. Friday afternoon was spent mostly online, talking on IM with dawnd and who_is_she as a crisis erupted. Friday night I spent away in a low-key evening with p3aches and kokoro43, watching a video of "A Mighty Wind" over at kokoro43's house and cuddling a bit afterwards. We collectively ran into p3aches's husband C and his new sweetie K at the same restaurant... p3aches and K had never met in person before... it was interesting.
