...You hear about the polar bear-grizzly hybrid in the news, and either A) make up stats for it or B) use it as proof that crossbreeds happen and you need the rules for it
...You turn a final fantasy X-2 job and make it into a d20 class.
...You turn the Kingdome Hearts weapons that Sora, Donnald, and Goofy use into Weapons of Legacy.
...a visiting company is named "Vectra" and you think it's "Vecna."
...you immediately check to see if the CEO has an eyepatch or prosthetic hand.
Did he? :)
...you buy D&D books just because they *are* D&D books.
I got promoted to a level 2 at work and said "Hey! Do I get more hit points?"
Does that count? ;P
tfad
My wife is making me write this. One time she was trying to wake me up and i told her your going to have to roll a d20 for that and rolled back over. this had to be in my sleep cause i have no memory of it and she swears its true, it cracks heer up every time she remembers it :]
My wife is making me write this. One time she was trying to wake me up and i told her your going to have to roll a d20 for that and rolled back over. this had to be in my sleep cause i have no memory of it and she swears its true, it cracks heer up every time she remembers it :]
OMG!!! That's hilarious!
...you have a set of dice by your bed (because you've rolled up NPCs for your game the next day).
You purchase the new PHB II and recognize the cover art for what it is and where it came from...
Half my players don't, but thats not their fault.
-Rath
...when all phones, cel and otherwise are turned off to minimize interruptions. (My group is downright religious about this, barring emergency calls. "It's Sunday! Gaming! Buh-bye!!")
*Sigh* I wish I had your group. I havn't gamed in over a month becaues just enough people couldn't make it to each session.
When you have a really bad day, and in retelling the story to friends you put it thusly...
" Getting pulled over for expired plates (low int made me think I could wait longer) arrested for unpaid speeding ticket (low wis made me forget) stay over night (low cha made the judge 'not like the looks-a you') and haveing to stay over night (damn good bluff/intimidate check kept my arse virginal!)
... sent that exact note to dozens of friends explaining why i was late....
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My very understanding fiancee, also a gamer, teases me about the same subconscious application of D&D rules to almost every movie I see. D20 Modern has bridged the gap even further, I'm afraid.
Let's not forget the fact that the original "draft" of his proposal included several D&D references (I don't remember what they were, though).
You know you play too much D&D if…
... You’re in Vegas and you roll 3d6 at the craps table.
... You see someone take a nasty fall you say to yourself « he must have rolled a 1 ».
... You’ve ever put yourself on a stat sheet.
... A girl invites you to her house on Saturday and you say “No, I can’t; my adventuring party is almost out of the crypts and my healing spells will surely be needed.”
... You’ve missed your daughter’s birth because you were out fighting Tiamat.
... You’ve named your son Lord Soth.
... You own anything that’s +1.
... You have any animal named Uni.
... You know what a ‘trebuchet’ is and can probably operate one.
... You’ve ever missed work because you were recuperating from an all-nighter.
... You know the exact page number of anything you’re looking for during a game.
... You’ve ever compared actual weather to the weather tables in the DM Guide.
... You think the Dungeons and Dragons films were cool.
... You have a garage that’s painted to look like an old dungeon, with swords, dangling chains and cobwebs, with the words “Gygax was here!” written on the wall. (I do!)
Ultradan
--You go to the local train station regularly just to get gold dollars and use them at every opportunity saying "Here are three gold pieces for my meal, kind sir." I have done this many times :)
--When you base all decisions on a percentile roll. I knew someone who did this all the time, and it got very annoying.
--You make something like this on TLC's website http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e76/vecna00/nat1.jpg
hehe, there's a McDonalds in the mall I work in. It's not the healthiest, but it sure is the cheapest :-D
Elora hit the nail on the head...I often wonder how Anakin made the jump from CG to LE so quickly!
I've also had long discussions about the alignments of other Star Wars characters...
You probably play to much D&D when:
You have serious discussions about whether people are Gamists, Dramatists, or Simulationists.
You have seen the Gmaers more than once and get all of the jokes.
You have seen the Gamers more than once because of the jokes.
You have watched all of the special features on the Gamers DVD.
You think that the characters in Free Enterprise are pretty realistic.
You read history texts to find elements to add to your game.
Yuo write your own PrCs because with all of them out there nothing quite fits what you want.
...I have to cancel some of my other games (Currently: Robotech, Vampire: The Requiem LARP, Mage: The Awakening LARP ;Soon: GURPS Deadlands) to play an extra session of D&D.
...You still rag on your old DM for the awful campaign he created...11 years ago!
When you have a really bad day, and in retelling the story to friends you put it thusly...
" Getting pulled over for expired plates (low int made me think I could wait longer) arrested for unpaid speeding ticket (low wis made me forget) stay over night (low cha made the judge 'not like the looks-a you') and haveing to stay over night (damn good bluff/intimidate check kept my arse virginal!)
... sent that exact note to dozens of friends explaining why i was late....
*LOL*
Something similar happened to me last weekend. I was pulled over for having expired tags. As I was sitting there, contemplating my possible arrest, all I could think about was that it had been a crappy night - pulled over, had a ticket written, AND my PC died just 30 minutes beforehand!
Fortunately, the highway patrolman took pity on me. He saw all the gaming books, identified himself as a gamer, and let me go.
Who says D&D never got me anywhere? =)
...your first inclination when dealing with the stupid people is to smite them.
/me is having a bad day at work...*grr*
/me digs around for the Excedrins...
...when your friends find out that you are a twin and want to know which of you is Raistlin and which is Caramon.
...when you know a gaming friend who named his firstborn Raistlin.
...when you have spirited discussions about PHBII, Origins, and Gen Con in the elevator at work because someone recognized your Gen Con swag bag from 2005.
...when your friends ditch you at your own wedding reception to go break into your honeymoon suite and set up all your miniatures (hundreds of them) all over the room, some in questionable poses.
(When my wife and I got in after the reception, it took us about half an hour to find them all and put them away)
...you use your D&D character sheet of yourself (Ftr 4/Bbn 1) to calculate which aspect of unarmed combat to learn next.
...you can't see the floor of your bedroom because of sourcebooks.
...you post stuff like this and are PROUD of it!
...you work in tissue banking and the funeral industry because it's as close to being a necromancer as you will ever find.
...you use your D&D character sheet of yourself (Ftr 4/Bbn 1) to calculate which aspect of unarmed combat to learn next.
I guess you can be trained to be fighter but I'm curious how you get fighter and barbarian levels.
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...you work in tissue banking and the funeral industry because it's as close to being a necromancer as you will ever find.
Creepy! I bet your campaigns are pretty undead heavy!
I've been failing my int checks for a while and JUST figured out that your name is Embalmer. *whacks self on forehead repeatedly*FH
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...you work in tissue banking and the funeral industry because it's as close to being a necromancer as you will ever find.Creepy! I bet your campaigns are pretty undead heavy!
I've been failing my int checks for a while and JUST figured out that your name is Embalmer. *whacks self on forehead repeatedly*FH
Don't feel bad; I was scratching my head wondering why anybody would keep kleenex in a bank.
...you have fuzzy d20 dice danglers...and you don't even have a car.
...you wear your "Choose Your Weapon" t-shirt, with pictures of our Sacred Seven Polyhedral Dice on it, to work on Friday.
...your other half gets an extra night off from work and all you can think of to do is work on character concepts and game ideas together. Not to mention level up each other's character and generally talk about GM theory and ideas.
...you work in tissue banking and the funeral industry because it's as close to being a necromancer as you will ever find.Creepy! I bet your campaigns are pretty undead heavy!
I've been failing my int checks for a while and JUST figured out that your name is Embalmer. *whacks self on forehead repeatedly*FH
My campaigns aren't too undead. I do have a lot more detail on funeral rites and burial customs than most campaigns, I've noticed.
There's also a country in my campaign ruled by a junta formed by a lich, a vampire, and a death knight.
...despite not having played in months, you still stop by the game shop every week and buy a new sourcebook.
...before you even played your first game you had at least six different sourcebooks.
...you can't actually pick up all your sourcebooks at the same time.
...you have access to over 40 base classes for d&d alone.
...you delete your mp3s to make room for more d&d stuff on your hard drive.
...two out of three nights your dreams involve d&d.
...you define the degree of a problem as light, moderate, serious, critical etc.
...despite generally advoiding message boards and forums, you stay up in to the wee hours of the morn' checking various d&d forums (as I'm doing now)
And Kyr, I justify my Barbarian level via having a serious anger management problem; in school I was the kid who beat up the bullies and eventually got expelled. Once or twice I actually came this close to a real life berserker rage. But that's in the past and repressed (mostly) by some nice relaxing therapy.
P.S. and don't think I'm exaggerating my temper, it really does qualify for that with no exaggeration whatsoever.
…when you and your spouse exchange dice as stocking stuffers
Well what else can we put in each other's stockings? And don't forget minitures and candy. It's a yearly tradition.
...when you watch a movie and begin to mentally apply combat rules to the action sequences.
I had to ban D&D books from being brought out while watching Lord of the Rings for the sake of keeping the guys from flipping to look up all the feats and spells etc...
My wife is making me write this. One time she was trying to wake me up and i told her your going to have to roll a d20 for that and rolled back over. this had to be in my sleep cause i have no memory of it and she swears its true, it cracks heer up every time she remembers it :]
I've actually lost a date to a D20, the guy said I had to get a ten or above and I rolled an 8. I figure at this point I must of rolled a nat 20 to get a guy like Thanis. *smiles* I'm glad I rolled low, I don't think I would of wanted to date him anyway.
--You go to the local train station regularly just to get gold dollars and use them at every opportunity saying "Here are three gold pieces for my meal, kind sir." I have done this many times :)
Thanis and I actually had about $200 set aside in gold and silver dollars for our honeymoon so we could do just that. But it got to be too heavy... sad. Needless to say we got some interesting looks when we paid some bills in gold.
... at your wedding you gave dice as wedding favours to your guests!
You stole my idea! Actually it would cost too much to put one in each favor... but my fiance and I have discussed buying a set of actual stone dice, or maybe even silver plated dice for our best man.
Eh. Thanis plays more then me. So I'm not that bad.
However, you know you've play too much D&D when if you don't know an answer on a multiple choice test you pull out your dice bag and pull out your lucky d4.
You know it's even worse when after the test your teacher asks for a set and where you got them from.