You know you are a compulsive RPG player when...


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... you apply stats to your friends and relatives — or to yourself.
"This friend of mine sure have 14 Dex! But probably 6 Charisma..." etc.

What's to you?

Sometimes I even think of rolling initiative before eating my morning cereal.


You're actively looking for something and when you finally it and it's under your nose you mutter, "Damn, did I fail my Percepion check!"


You're thinking of failed and succeeding saving throws, ability checks, and skill checks when characters do something during a movie or TV show.

Sovereign Court

... you're here reading this.

Sovereign Court

...and you reply.

Sovereign Court

... more than once.


I refer to making/failing Spot checks all the time. And Listen checks (sorry the ol' Perception check hasn't yet made it into my vernacular). I've even mentioned rolling Initiative a few times. I know a guy who never succeeds on his Fortitude save against whatever bug is going 'round, and I tell him so. I've made a number of Reflex saves and/or Dex checks in my life. And I've even taken 20 on a skill check. The worst, probably, is trying to guess a person's stats.

I suppose I fit the bill...

Dark Archive

When you MUST HAVE every book a company produces.


When you've statted yourself. Ability scores, class abilities, skills, feats, the works.


When you trip and you comment you failed your Dex check.


...when you hear someone did something monumentally stupid and declare they've blown a Wisdom check.


When you roll to decide the outcome of things.

When you convert your girlfriend to do the same.


Try to start a game with the people waiting in line at the DMV.

Liberty's Edge

... when you visit a temple in Egypt, see a mummified crocodile, take dice out of your pocket and roll a percentage...

... and your husband turns to you and asks, "San roll?"

Grand Lodge

Xabulla you're a GENIUS!

I know what to do now when I gotta go to the DMV.

My group and I just gotta schedule our yearly trips at the same time.

Grand Lodge

I think you're a compulsive gamer when you post on Threads like this every couple of years and think, man, wasn't it just last year that someone else started another Thread just like this?, and then realize that you've seen this Thread a handful of times over the last 5 years.

And it still makes you happy.

Shadow Lodge

You're a compulsive gamer if you try to re-create famous battles in history with stat-blocks, grid maps, and minis.

And you throw in a dragon to make things more exciting.


If you and your friends have statted yourselves AND played the characters in a game.


Well... if you carry a dicebag, pencil and paper with you just in case... to work, school, office... like me :D


When, while sitting at pub your group coerces GM to start spontaneous adventure...

When his protests that there are no character sheets and dice are silenced by people pulling them from their bags...

And when he looked at me with hope in his eyes, saying that I don't have character sheet I replied "I don't need it, I remember my stats".

Liberty's Edge

If you see a total stranger walking along with an RPG book in hand and feel the need to stop them and strike up a conversation about the game, even if you've got somewhere else to be and stuff that needs doing.


When your wife almost gets shocked due to an electric razor falling in the tub and the first words out of her mouth(before the tirade of fury) is "I MADE A F$&*ING 20 ON MY REFLEX SAVE!!!"

Grand Lodge

You know what happens to me almost every friggin' day?

At work I write Word documents every day often all day long. And every time I need to use Italics -- every time!, I hit [ i ] and then type a few strokes before I realize it's "Ctrl I" instead of [ i ].


martzgfx wrote:

... you apply stats to your friends and relatives — or to yourself.

"This friend of mine sure have 14 Dex! But probably 6 Charisma..." etc.

What's to you?

Sometimes I even think of rolling initiative before eating my morning cereal.

Honestly, I make gaming language references all the time now, and it very effective in relating to my younger troops.

The current 17-25 year old gang grew up with gaming references.

If one of my young soldiers does something that shows quick reflexes, I make a comment like, "great job Smitty! You must have a 19 DEX!"

And, he beams and the soldiers around him get the insight.

Three years back during a combat engagement in Iraq, one of my soldiers shouted, "blood for the blood god!" after a tense firefight subsided.

I nearly fell over laughing. It was an example of gallows humor where a tense moment is broken by humor (that while not appropriate in polite company) that was perfectly timed under the circumstances.

My soldiers and I used RPG techniques extensively to practice key meetings with our local national allies.

Again, incredibly effective.

In service,

Rich
www.drgames.org

Dark Archive

Twin Agate Dragons wrote:
You're thinking of failed and succeeding saving throws, ability checks, and skill checks when characters do something during a movie or TV show.

I do this..... ALL THE TIME! *Hangs head in shame*

Dark Archive

You refer to the thousands of people you don't know, but see everyday, on the ride to work, while at the mall or Wal-Mart, at the library, etc... as NPC's.

Grand Lodge

you see a picture of a dragon (outside of a gaming context) and wonder if it's metallic or chromatic...

The Exchange

Evil Genius Prime wrote:
You refer to the thousands of people you don't know, but see everyday, on the ride to work, while at the mall or Wal-Mart, at the library, etc... as NPC's.

Oh Noooo! Thanks for planting this thought. Now I have started this. But unable to tell if this is a bad thing...


You watch something where people fight and someone lands a nice blow and you go "OOOOH CRIT!"

Shadow Lodge

When you carry all of the necessary items to consider yourself Protocol Competent, at all times.

Silver Crusade

There was an open parking spot right next to where we meet. My immediate thought was "Natural 20!"

Yup, I'm one of "them", or "us".


When your tummy grumbles and you explain it as getting a 1 on your hunger check.

Silver Crusade

When you refer to buying groceries as "getting mats for dinner".


When you grumble about failing your Will save after eating that one cookie too many.


When you roll for disbelief


Your nicknames for each other are actually your character names.

Seriously, this happened to me in college.

"Heya Grun."

"Yo Fitz, what's up?"

"You see Drubin yet?"

"Nah, he's probably in the Union building."

I'm not sure how it started, but we never skipped a beat.

Maybe I've shared too much.


Hell, more than 15 years later and some of my old buddies I gamed with back in the early 90's still call me by the name of the character I played at the time.

Liberty's Edge

Wander Weir wrote:
When you grumble about failing your Will save after eating that one cookie too many.

I just sob and mutter "I hate my body..." under my breath...but to each his own I suppose.


QOShea wrote:
If you and your friends have statted yourselves AND played the characters in a game.

Some people I used to game with did this a while back for a Zombie Apoc game ;).

Liberty's Edge

Likewise, a local group did this a while back, playing Blood 1e. The last night of the game, my character died in the final combat. The next week I turned up to be met with "You shouldn't be here, you're dead!"

At that time I was webmaster in the local community college, and naturally some of the students were gamers. They'd stop me and reminisce about the previous night's game, which sometimes needed a bit of explanation to passing lecturers - like one hulking student from a bricklaying class who was heard saying "... and then I kicked you in the nads..." (In case you hadn't noticed, I'm female in real life but had been playing a male character in that game, so we spent ages trying to explain to the bricklaying tutor what we were on about!)

Liberty's Edge

When you create a playlist on your iPod to correspond with your bard character's spell list.


Cuchulainn wrote:
When you create a playlist on your iPod to correspond with your bard character's spell list.

I'm almost at that point, but it's music to put me in the mood to play my character. Though at least one piece would be good for a spell's verbal component!


Cuchulainn wrote:
When you create a playlist on your iPod to correspond with your bard character's spell list.

That's not overly compulsive! It's good practice for getting into character. :)

Dark Archive

...you fail actual sanity checks multiple times throughout the day and start cursing and swatting at invisible kobolds in your work cubicle.

(I have a very stessful job and a very demanding group of players I GM for. I think I am sublimating the kobolds for them.)

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