Do Gamers Syncronise?

[Loztastic]

I have been thinking about this for a while now - i have a handfull of friends who I have games with for YEARS now. and, for a while we have commented how we frequently turn up with similar character ideas to eachother

anyway, yesterday I was chatting with one friend online, and i made a typo (i mentioned a government department called "The Probability Service") when talking about work

a while later he rang me (as i'd sounded "as down as you can when typing") and I made a joke when he mentioned my type "Back in the 90's when you were getting a new GURPS book every 10 min, i bet "the probatility service" would have sold as a setting

within 10 min, we had, spinning off eachother, creating a whole setting

another example is we both recently bought "The Return of the Scarlet Empress" for Exalted. and, totally independantly, we came up with EXACTLY the same plan on how to impliment it and turn it into a campaign (Lytec thinks something dubious is going on, and puts together a crack team consisting of one of each exalt type to investigate & stop the reclamation)

so, the question is, with people you have gamed with for years, do you start thinking the same?

[Megan Robertson]

You mean you've only just discovered the Universal Infernal Sub-plot Generator?

In days when I was playing 3-4 times a week with different groups of people, similar events would often happen in all of the games in the same week. Or something I'd written came up somewhere else...

But maybe we had better not mention a certain Spycraft evil mastermind's lair which decided to spew volcanic ash this summer...

[Sphen86]

I game with my friends. They are my friends because we have the same general opinions and hobbies, etc. That leads us all to think very similiar, and thus to come up with the same sort of ideas. Also, we all learned to game together, so we all have very much the same expierances there-in.