... 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.
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...
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.
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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.
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".
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!!!"
... 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
You watch something where people fight and someone lands a nice blow and you go "OOOOH CRIT!"
When your tummy grumbles and you explain it as getting a 1 on your hunger check.
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.
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!
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. :)
