Is your game/group a "good" example for D&D?

[chrisnd]

My current group consists of 2 accountants, 2 bankers, and one IT administrator. We have 2 Christians, one ex-officio Catholic, and I don't know about the other two. All the PC's are good aligned (I won't allow evil PC's, especially when one wants to play a paladin in the group). I think that if someone came in to watch, they would enjoy it. Although, as many gamers know, "inside" jokes can abound, especially under certian circumstances. I would feel sorry for those outsiders observing, as they would most likely not understand what the heck might be going on at any particular time.

2 of us also like games to the extreme - myself (I am the DM), and one of the players. Because of this, people probably think we are a little on the nerdy side, but I think that just goes with the territory. Overall, though, I think that most outsiders that came to watch would just find a group of guys having fun, being creative, and telling stories.

 

[EricNoah]

Yes to fun, yes to geeky, yes to occasionally inappropriate (crude jokes), yes to lots of laughter. I think any of my groups would set a fine example.

 

[HiLiphNY]

Let's see. . .we're all in Manhattan or Brooklyn. . .we play at my place in NYC's East Village. We're 27-35 in age, 4 of us are guys, 3 are gals and consist of:

1. DM - Me - I'm an equities trader
2. PC #1 - Conceirge for a Hotel
3. PC #2 - Theatre Seamstress/costumer
4. PC #3 - Network Admin guy
5. PC #4 - Desktop publisher for a magazine
6. PC #5 - Cater waiter/ Rock band manager
7. PC #6 - Admin asst. for a small firm

Looks pretty normal to me, eh? (Looks can be deceiving) (Objects in mirror are closer than they appear) Wolf in sheep's clothing) etc. . . .

 

[Joker]

Of all the geeky Satan worshipers, how many do you think are gonna come out and say they are just that ?



I am in two groups.

The one I am not really interested all seem like "normal" people. Psych students, freelance programmer, nothing special.

The other group (the one I've been with for six years) are a bunch of voyeuristic nerds. Though you didn't hear that from me.

 

[Galethorn]

My group would be a good example of not satanic (if only because our one and only religious member is a christian, and I don't allow evil PCs), and it's definately fun....but, as for nerdity...well...

My group is a perfect example of teenagers who seem normal, out in the world, but are all die-hard nerds and gamers when it comes right down to it. Sure, we all have our 'specialty'* (literature, computers (and subsections thereof), ironic humor, sci-fi, art, etc.), but we all have at least a passing interest in everything everybody else does, as well as a common interest in gaming.

Our sessions (and non-gaming get-togethers) include never-ending strings of conversations about topics that only about 10% of the population would really understand, including topics as diverse as cosmology, the big lebowski, puns ('you hurt my punny bone!', 'punnery sgt. snyder reporting for duty, sir!', etc.) and game mechanics.

* My specialty is knowledge. If somebody makes an obscure reference (DC15 to appreciate), I only fail on a 1. Now, on the other hand, I also specialize in writing (much moreso than reading), but that's not directly connected to my nerdiness.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

evil/satan/occult. . . naw, not really. My wife has an abiding academic interest in the occult in general, but it doesn't come up in game as often as it does in, say The DaVinci Code, or Lord of the Rings. We're not running a Cthulu game or Vile Darkness at the moment, just intrigue/dungeoncrawling

geeky/nerdy . . . ah, yeah, I think we might come off a bit nerdy. We're all well-adjusted folks, but, other than my wife, the whole of the current group is made up of linguists, beer-drinking (and perhaps something slightly more illicit), lasagna-wolfing with more regard for their own happiness and self-respect than the regard of others. I think they're all, (including my wife ) cooks (how gauche - evryone who's anyone eats all their meals out or from a box) One father, one exchange student, two women who are neither fathers nor exchange students, and me, Arbiter of Geeks. The geekiness gets worse when my best friend comes around. He's a political scientist who sometimes posts here. People don't think of poli-sci folks as geeks, but put one in a D&D game and things get wierd.

Fun . . . Always

In short (or long), I think that we're an exemplary group.

 

[Psion]

Fun... sure

Squeaky clean... no occultism and little swearing... sure.

Non-nerdy... well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad...

 

[Enkhidu]

I think my gaming group fits the positive role model mold - don't get me wrong, we've got our share of geeky moments and then some, but aside from the potty mouth syndrome we're fairly good entertainment. My 13 year old daughter has actually chosen to listen to us game rather than play video games and watch TV.

 

[Castellan]

Our group was playing at a friend's place once when his wife's best friend was over. She's a Bob-Jones-ite (graduated from Bob Jones U. here in Greenville, SC) and was coming and going through the living room as the six of us were playing.

After about an hour of the game, she came over to us and said, "When are you guys going to start?"

"We already have," came the reply.

"Oh," she mused. "This isn't anything like what they tell us."

So, yeah, I guess we're a good example of what the game is really like.

 

[kmdietri]

"Good" example... well we're an example that's for sure...

Do we have fun? Tons and tons...

Are we geeks? I prefer closet geek as my own self classification, as for the rest of the group I'd say we're all pretty similar.

Occult/Evil? I really know absolutely nothing about the occult so hell maybe we are, as far as evil goes some times we play evilly inclined groups or characters.

Successful? We're definately all higly educated successful young adults. I think the funniest group member is my buddy the cop who keeps things on low-down at work. Ironically he's probably the closest thing to a nerd in the group... but you didn't hear that from me... damn I just realized he has access to a gun... now really didn't hear that form me...