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From tremere@iinet.net.au
- You have worked out what Runequest cult Xena belongs to
- You saw Starship Troopers and wondered why they didn't use FGMP's and Battle Dress
- You know what a FGMP is
- You refer to the "Law Level" of your city
- You go to the domestic airport to get a flight and tell ppl "I am going to the C class starport"
- You played the mini solo adventures to T&T..like Goblin Lake
- You thought the pictures in S1 enhanced the experience of the module...even the sliding into the burning pit one
- You now wear glasses cause you read the original C&C rules
- You understand what Arduin was about...and used it
- You used a copy of the character sheet that came with Space Opera
- You have realised that you are getting older cause your V&V character is now not as effective in physical stats
- You call your ATM card a cred chip
- When you go onto the freeway you refer to it as entering jump
- You go to the Burning Man cause you heard that Greg Stafford went there
- You worry about mining operations in Antarctica, not because of the environmental damage but that they could awaken the Elder Things
From XKngtOfNee@aol.com
...you've ever written out the IQ, ME, MA, PS, PP, PE, PB, and Spd of your real-life friends, and yourself.
...you've ever assigned skills and proficiency levels to your friends and yourself.
...you've spent weeks practicing at the gun range just so you too could have Weapon Proficiency: Automatic Pistol.
...you stalk the streets at night, hoping to steal someone's PPE.
...one of your characters has died of old age.
...you can quote from the Recollections of Erin Tarn.
...you're afraid the Coalition will steal your dog and send him to Lone Star.
...you joined the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), but nobody will fight you because you insist that their SDC weapons have no effect on your armor.
...you divorced your wife/husband because the two of you have different alignments.
...you wrote a book containing all the spells your characters have created.
...said book has been published.
...none of the pimps in your city approach you because you keep asking them if they have any energy rifles for sale.
...you've offered said pimps your SAMAS power armor in exchange for a "favor".
From cherone__@hotmail.com
...you find yourself on this page.
...you find yourself laughing at this page.
...if you can quote characters from the fictional pieces that litter the varios books.
...if you know who coolwillie and jerj are.
From Peace47569@aol.com
.... you've ever scared the s**t out of a monk because you asked if he had a Wizard Scroll of Easy Wenching
.... you've ever attacked a neighbor's lawn gnomes because they resembled those b*****d dwarves that betrayed you in your last campaign
.... you bring a sleeping bag, twigs, flint, tinder, and Dale's Wonder Sword Polish! to every game just for the 'authenticity'
.... you've ever written a fully comprehensive item, weapon, and clothing guide with complete cross-referencing by size, weight, and color, including an easily understood random roll listing
.... and never used it, because you made the list from memory
.... you believe the sole purpose of learning algebra is to figure out easier ways to calculate HP while taking into account armour weight, dexterity, constitution, and the gravitational pull on the shield, all at the same time
.... You understood that.
.... You've ever screamed, "DEAR GOD NO! DON'T OPEN THAT DOOR!" and ducked behind a lamp because someone didn't do a Detect Traps check.
.... Your excuse for failing a test is your Int. roll sucked
.... Your friends stare at everything you give them---whether it be food, paper, or moldy grapes you found in the bottom of your refrigerator---because they know you are prone to putting clues to future puzzles on the oddest things
.... You've ever found yourself sitting on the floor in a dark room, surrounded by people you don't know, playing a game you've never heard of, with a character you made three minutes before hand, and yet you can still quote the character names, stats, and weaponry of everyone in the room
.... Your campaigns are a mix of five different games with rules, weapons, and races from all of them
.... and your player's don't notice
.... you insist of making Charisma checks before flirting with someone
.... Your parameters for respecting someone are their Charisma and the Armour Class
.... You have no clue what your best friend's real name because you met him/her in a game
.... You refer to your teachers as 'Sir' and 'Milady'
.... You never answer a question on a test without attempting to summon the Mirmir
.... You knew what that was
.... You've ever created your own faction ... You've ever openly advocated your faction
.... You've ever gotten into an argument with your character because you want a Grapple and she wants a Particle Beam Blaster
.... and lost
.... You've ever created an entire bible for a faction
.... and discarded it because it was too limiting
.... You've ever attacked a complete stranger because your faction regarded theirs as "threatening"
.... You've ever gone through an entire day speaking in gibberish because your Babble spell didn't get canceled before the game ended
From Rebel56651@aol.com
...When your character dies, you hold a full-service funeral and morn for at least two weeks before creating another.
... Your pets only respond to you when you act in character.
... Nachoes become fine cuisine.
... You actually create languages for games just so you can get the feeling of talking to real elves.
... Your excuse for everything wrong in your life is that your GM hates you.
... You feel guilty if you have more than one character at a time.
... Your character gets more mail than you do.
... You don't realize that the dragon you fought is not an excuse for being late.
... Your internal clock is set to the game time.
... Your best threat is that you will send your character to cast "Beffudle" on someone and them use "Binding" to hold him over a Pit of Orcs.
... You cut yourself everytime your character gets injured. (Actually, that's boredering on dimensia)
... You've memorized where all of the towns and castles are in your campaign, but can't even tell someone where Canada is.
... You panic because you only have 10 bags of Cheetos left.
... Every time you meet someone, you almost introduce yourself as your character.
... You are dating one of the NPC's in your campaign.
... and see nothing wrong with it.
... You pray to your GM.
... You can actually say that you have more game books than the game store.
... You have more meaningful arguements in a game than in real life. (Mostly because no one will talk to you in real life.)
... You wonder what I ment when I said "Real life".
...You actually do all the things on this list, just to be considered a real gamer.
... You actually care wether your AC is -8 or -7.
... You've actually had an AC that low.
... You make a new character, and in four days he is level 10.
... You make death threats at your friends' characters when they piss you off.
... You buy a ring in real life that is 3 sizes too big, because rings are supposed to fit everyone, no matter what, right?
...You bother to worry about how much weight your character carries and use the encumberance rules.
... You refer to Driver's Ed as "training in piloting automobiles.
From XKngtOfNee@aol.com
...you've ever looked at a particularly threatening background around a teacher/professor (dark clouds, purple lightning, the end boss from Doom II, etc.) and assumed they were in actuality a lesser Demon of Slaanesh.
...you've found sufficient evidence to prove that one of your teachers/professors is actually a lesser Demon of Slaanesh.
...you've looked at a younger girl/guy and wished to God your 32nd-level warrior mage was around to cast that Age spell....mmm boy! Wait, that's disgusting.
...you disagreed with me on that last point.
...when you and a fellow PC's character get into a fight, you go to the closet and break out the ornamental broadswords.
...you've ever toured Scotland and England in hopes that you would be able to open a dimensional Rift.
...during said visit, you scared the crap out of the Archbishop of Canterbury by asking him to open said rift.
...you pissed on your father's grave because he used to call you "fairy boy" for playing Dungeons & Dragons.
...you opened a gateway to the Eye of Terror on your father's grave because he used to call you "fairy boy" for playing Dungeons & Dragons.
...you play Warhammer 40K....with 1:1 scale.
...you entered a Trekkie convention and shouted "screw the Klingon language! I know Elven!"
...Trekkies look down their noses at you.
...you stayed up on Christmas eve, waiting for Santa with a NG-57 Northern Gun Heavy-duty Ion Blaster...little did you realize that the jolly elf was a full conversion Borg...
...you're so far gone as to offer thousands of credits for "pre-Rifts" paper money.
...you've been shot because of this offer.
From Rebel56651@aol.com
...You know that in the basic rule book of Rifts, every 10th, 3rd, and 14th word will spell out complete conversion rules from TSR to Palladium rules.
...You're going to get that book now to see it.
...You found out that I lied and are now about to send me a hate e-mail.
...You find a combination of letters from a book that do work, and e-mail with it and tell me I'm an idiot. (In which case I will hunt you down and pummel you to death with that book)
...You don't care about that because you already know how to do that.
...The writers of your favorite game call you for advice on their new source book.
...You can't seem to escape the feeling that you should be... rolling... something... but what?
...You base an NPC on your girlfriend as a birthday present.
...And she loves it.
...You actually enjoy being the GM. (That would be me.)
...You hold an intervention to stop your friend from always being a juicer.
...You have sexually fantasies about the tough chic NPC in your campaign.
...You carry a pencil, a bag of dice, and your character sheet in case of a spontaneous game session.
...You tell everyone that your pet is your animal familiar.
...Your memories of "the good old days" involve cheese balls, and a really long campaign.
...You've been to a hundred bars and taverns in your games, but only one in real life so you could get the ambiance to make the ones in the game seem more real.
...Your GM has to teach you the hard way not to go around his traps. (That's why I enloy being GM)
...You play Strip D&D.
...You cried when your freind's character dies, but didn't even go to your grandmother funeral because it was on the day of your campaign.
...You tell your friend that spending $4500 to fix up his car was a waste of money, then go home to your $6000 dollars worth of RPG books.
...You have 3 minutes to evacuate your home, and you save all of your RPG books and dice, leaving a pricless painting, four family heirlooms, and $700,000 worth of precious gems and metals.
...The pizza guy has been to your house during your gaming sessions so many times, that he greets you all by your characters' names.
...You have no money, your bills are three months overdue, and you owe a total of $50000 dollars to various organizations, but your character could buy an entire army and arm them into invincible war machines and rule the world as a novelty and still have enough left over to buy off his enemies for the next 800 years.
...But your character lives by voluntary simplicity and only owns food and a couple weapons, like you. Except you sold your weapons for more rule books, and cheese balls and pretzles are the closest thing to food you know of.
...You've actually played an RPG online.
...You greet everyone with "Well met, my friend."
...Your charactter actually has a well paying job.
...But you have never held a steady job for more than a week.
...You honestly believe you have connections with a powerrful warlord.
...You have ever played a game with your parents.
...You were GMing a game with your little brother and he dies, and you were grounded for letting him die.
From saint@wouldilie.com
- You can easily use up a 10-game card at the local lasergame hall
- a week
- Being no. 1 on the list of top ten lasertag/warhammer/magic etc. players just isn't enough- your name is the ONLY name that should be on that list.
- You actually compary yourself with some of these symptoms
- You have more dragon necklaces than underwear
- The only *real* reason you ever got into computers whas that someone told you that you could make text-adventures in BASIC- and that's the only kind of adventures you can play since your friends abandonned you when you became to weird a long time ago
- If told a mythical creature, you automatically name it's features, races, homelands and where the myth came up-not to mention which cultures it appeared in. (The Golem, anyone?)
- When Magic the Gathering appeared, you created your own custom-cardgame RPG (à la DS, if some1 remember) using a standard card deck, and insisted that you should always be allowed to play the joker!
- You mix up your own memories with your character's ("yeah, it's just like when I... No, wait that was my second-latest D&D magician")
- You can't wait until you've read all this so that you can add your own comments
- You've actually spent ridiculous sums on a second-hand mouse-mat just because there was a cool dragon on it (like me ()
- You work as a medium- not using Anything like Tarot or I Ching, but you've learned every system from all of your fav. games.
From Kismet@apex2000.net
Credits to: Kazz, the Reverend
Omnicynic, Multiple Personality Girl & myself.
Enjoy!
- You conisistently inform people that it's not "Carpe Diem"(sieze the day) but "Carpe D.M." (sieze the Dungeon Master.)
- Or "Carp a D.M." (Hit the Dungeon Master with a fish.)
- Or "Car: Pay D.M." (you ride with him, you chip in for gas.)
- You grow up, get married, have kids ... then homeschool said kids so you'll have someone to play with during the week.
- And you reason to get the kids reading early: so they can make characters that you know nothing about & be more fun to play with.
- Your nightmares run in slow motion...not because of terror, but because there's arguments about what the NPC villains and monsters can do.
- After years of playing dwarf characters, you find yourself naming the tools of your trade after favorite IC axes.
- You forget what your parents named your first character. (if you're scratching your head over this one, it's your real name)
- You're STILL reading this list!
- You know you're a gamer when you can't remember your kid's name, but call him by his character's name instead.
^^You really know you're a gamer when your kid thinks that is his name.
From Kismet@apex2000.net
from the Malkavians, TimWolf (on undernet) & myself.
- you don't go out with your friends on a saturday night, because your character has an important date.
- you find yourself jealous of your character's significant other.
- you're LOOKING for someone like your character's significant other.
- if you write up "You might be a gamer if ... " stuff, even after the list has gotten this long.
- you don't just have more than your weight in gaming books, but a desk and two bookcases dedicated to your gaming. (dunno about you, but I have desk, two bookcases, one whole computer with gig hd & 56K modem, and 20 square feet of floor space dedicated!)
- you compulsively mail or ship things to people (sometimes at great explense) because whatever it is reminds you of their character.
- you buy a the new brand of toilet paper (or anything else for that matter) because it has the same name as the insane character of your's that'd get a kick out of it.
- you can not only prove that your teachers/profs are lesser Demons of Slaanesh, but have seen them performing their unholy rites.
- the last time you tried to make your character do something that wasn't "in character" they (the character) argued with you ...
...and won.
From Kismet@apex2000.net
From myself mostly this time, with inspiration and help from alot of very strange people, and especially RedFang, who came up with some of the strangest. happy gaming!
... you see "Semper Satyr" and you immediately think "Always Horny."
... someone mentions pixies and you immediately start swearing and wonder what they're going to foul up.
... you're sure that the class bully you knew in first grade was really an Orc.
... you've ever eaten "bad dice" in a fit of frustration.
... you get picked up by the police, and spend all evening trying saying "but I'm LAWFUL-Evil, really!"
... your excuse to the boss ever goes "But I HAVE to leave work early, I left my partyin the dragon's den! No, really!"
... when you see a praying mantis and mistake it for a tryklene and kill it ... oops.
... you know what the thing I was that I'm not sure about the spelling of.
... you get kicked out of a camp site for running around at midnight tryng to bite the rangers. (Boys and Girls, please do NOT try this at home!)
... or because you were howling at the moon.
... or if you've ever said "But officer, I had to punch him, I blew my rage roll!"
... or "But your honor I had to take the eagle feather, I need it for my fetish dagger."
... or "I don't usually run around naked officer, but the rite to cleanse the unholy Wyrm from the faerie-glen requires it!"
... but I'm a Kender, you can't fire me! I'm supposed to blow up the company network!
From Kismet@apex2000.net
Collected works of many nutcases here, some weren't even from a gaming place, but were committed by gamers who were there. ALOT from a session of the League of Insomniac Role Players (LIRP), meaning me, Alyard, Thaddeus.
... someone says of a friend, "He gives good monster." And you know what it means.
... and the meaning thereof makes you sign up for that person's next campaign.
... someone ever said of YOU "You give good monster."
... the description "urban fetish weapon" means anything to you (HEY! Get away from my staff, errr pipe, um my thing with the dangly stuff decorating it, yeah you, paws OFF!)
... You saw "Kindred, the Embraced" and kept yelling they got it all wrong.
... You know what that show was.
... AND you want to own it anyway.
... You watch Antique shows and b***h that they called everything by the wrong names, then wrote the show about it.
... Then they read you letter on the air and say you were right.
... You STILL watch Excaliber every time it comes on.
... You watched the show "Warlock" and thought to yourself.. "What a wimp."
... Your mother thinks you flirt with devil becouse you play RPG's.... As a joke you say your new girls friends middle name is Satana.
... You wern't joking, but its her first.
... You tell the cashier, "No i dont eat children", before he even has a chance to ask.
... The cops watching your gaming store come in for the free coffee.
... - and join in the game.
... Then customers ask, if they create Cop characters, can they have free coffee too?
... Your car broke down so you gamed while waiting for the tow truck.
... You hoped the tow truck would be late so you could finish this combat.
... You tired to get your mom to play so she could understand it.
... And she played a cleric think it was a secretary.
... it worked.
... took up a sport so your LARP character would be better in combat.
... you yell out "Critcal slay!" when Mustafa says "Now Austin Powers, prepare to die!"
... you know what that meant.
... you ask someone to join the Camarilla, they wonder why you're in a cult that worships caramel, and you manage to hook them anyway.
... your local gas station cashier has an order waiting for you behind the counter every friday night.
... You refer to pizza as the Holy food, and Hungry Howies as the Blessed Servant of said God.
... you cant sleep at night because the Bard Character wouldnt let you sleep until they were done writing their doggeral.
... you or your partner call the other by their character's name in your sleep.
... You find yourself slipping into your character's frame of mind.. and cant get rid of that annoying accent.
... you watch horror movies and think to yourself: "My werewolf is meaner than that!"
... You watched Merlin, and realzed he was an apprentace accrding to Mage: the Ascension rules.
... or watched Merlin and could recite what spheres he was using.
... Or watched "The howling" and knew what "gifts" the werewolves were using by name.
... you take notes from books for character histories.
... you think a 'warehouse' is a place for lycanthropes.
... your gaming club bribed the local TV station so they would put on a positive spin VLARP.......... Then it was fined for allowing smoking indoors and that tape was the evadence.
... you've ever seen the solid brass d6's.. and HAD to have them so that they made more noise than everyone elses when you rolled them.
... or you got the brass d6's becouse they wouldn't break when you threw them at concrete walls.
... you mistake a golf ball for a d100.
... you discover its a golf ball, and decide to write the numbers in rubadub marker, because its cheaper than buying a real d100.
... you actually NEEEEEd a d100!
... you ever begged your mom to buy you more dice for christmas.
... you got more dice from christmas!
... you think to yourself upon seeing d100.. why not just use percentile dice?
... you have dreams from your character's point of view.
... you've ever had an in-depth debate about the pros and cons of Chaotic alignments.
... and the pros won.
... you've ever wondered "What would my character do in this situation?"
... and then acted upon it as your char would.
... your characters are so well rounded, that you actually *are* MPD.
... you whole heartedly agreed with that last statement.
... you read the Karma Sutra so that your character would be good in bed.
... you prefer writing out character sheets on blank paper because it's more flexible.
... you have more than 15 characters, and dont need character sheets because you have all their stats memorized, and dont get them confused.
... your mother won't let you throw a sleep-over birthday party because she knows it is going to devolve into a game fest anyway.
... you write BAD filk songs like "Were oh Were Has my little dog gone, Oh Were oh Were she can be.. with her temper cut short and her fangs cut long.. Oh were oh were Can she be" ... and think they're funny.
... and your friends think it's funny too.
... you can sing "The Lycanthropic Blues."
... thou dost knoweth of that which I speak.
... you spent more time naming your new character, than you did you newborn baby.
From schubert@rdn.it
- After reading ALL this page you save it on your comp, then bookmark it and plan to visit every day for new updates.
- If your adds get published you send the URL to all your friends.
- Actually you sent the URL already.
- When you bought "Baldur's Gate" for your PC you had to read the small D&D adventure enclosed BEFORE installing the game...
- ... which you didn't play before you expanded that adventure into a campaign.
- In Chat Rooms on the Net you roleplay the character your nick comes from (you have an RPG-based nick, do you?).
- You know the family tree of your character up to 20 generations but can't recall your parent's birthdays.
- Your bookshelf fell at least once due to the amount of RPG and fantasy/sci-fi books stored there.
- The owners of your hobby store give you unlimited credit if you happen to buy something and see you forget your wallet at home.
- You wonder how much would it cost to get every AD&D module published...
- ... and then prepare a plan to get the money.
- You don't have to wonder how much it would cost - you know it.
- Actually you have every AD&D book even published...
- ... altough now the bank owns your house.
- On your comp you have dicing programs for games you didn't play...
- ... but you'll buy them tomorrow.
- You run "Toon!"... drunk... and insisted your players get drunk too in order to play it properly. That's All Folks!
From Kismet@apex2000.net
- you've actually reached the point of playing lycanthropes with neither "fang," "blood" nor "claw" in their name.
- you sympathize with mummies.
- you've ever commited character suicide as the only way to get out of a REALLY long campaign.
- you've ever been heard to say "Ego? ME? Just because I have an Xxxxx???"
- your main reason to get a driver's license is so you won't miss as many games for lack of a ride.
- your motto for con action is "Sleep? Moi?"
- and your friends guess before you can even bring it up.
- you've perfected the art of removing pizza stains from paper.
- you need more blood in your coffee stream.
- your nick online isn't from your favorite character, but from your favorite rgg company. (TSR, Whyte-Wulf, etc)
- you can keep your coffee cup in one hand...chips on the other and still type.
- you wake up at 12 mn looking for players.
- you might be an online gamer if you think /me before you actually do something.
- you might be a gamer if you say "/me goes to take a piss" on your way to the bathroom.
- you take said piss in 2 secs.
- your nieghbor shows you his bowling trophies, and you show him your D20 collection (all 62 colors!)
- you introduce yourself as "Gandalf, Sorceror of Life" at family reunions.
- the most exciting thing in your life is a new color dice that you dont have in your collection.
- you've constructed a full-size replica of the Great Wall of China out of your M:tG commons.
- you think about making an Intellegence Check before taking a test.
- you say your girl friend has an App. of like 18.
- your car's fuzzy dice have more than size sides.
- you say THAC0 to children in the hopes they'll run in fear.
- you say "I am going to set Brujah on your a$$" to people.
- you have a heated debate about how your paladin could beat the alien in Predator 2
- you have a heated debate about how your mage could beat the paladin that could beat the alien in predator 2
- you actually know the name of the predator species (Yautja.)
- "May Selene Bless you" instead of "God bless."
- you've ever describe your nieces and nephews as "Gibberlings."
- you have ever wondered about the infinitivness of "blah blah blah" ex. whats the name of the inn? "blah blah blah"
- you've ever dreamed of taking an OmniMech out on the highway.
- you can think of these things from personal experience.
- you blame your botched roll on your modem, and have to log-off so you can get your "lucky 33.6."
- you have to think up more of these so you can continue to dominate the bottom of the list!
- you hope that your cat has it's "First Change" soon.
- you study your cat for any moves you might incorporate into gaming.
- you've ever skipped a day at school/lecture at college so you could ready your campaign for the game next week.
- you hope that YOU have your first change soon.
- you're late for work in the morning due to gaming.
- you go through puberty and mistake it for your first change.
- you have yourself tattoed with a kindred symbol.
- you've ever claimed your grandmother is "Nosferatu" ... and all your friends agree.
- you've tried "movement of the mind" on the exam papers the teacher has on her desk.
- the exams papers are blown towards you and you say you have another discipline.
- you call your laser pen your "light sabre".
- you find a seven year old twinkie and thank god that you can spend you lunch money on another pack of Magic: the Gathering cards.
- you call a steak-knife your "Klaive."
- your family photo album as pictures of Sturm, Tika, Raistlin, Tanis and crew.
- all the "My document" files on your computer are stats of your characters.
- you've legally changed your last name to Majere, or Forestwalker, etc.
- you refer to the moon as Lunatari.
- you think you can spend extra WP for extended orgasm.
- ((poor gamer if)) you use a lunch baggy for a makeshift dice bag.
- you if you think receiving "Gifts" for Christmas means you need to contact the spirit realm.
- ((poor gamer if)) your character sheets are written on the back of late notices from the power company.
- you have a breakdown when you fav WW book is lost.
- ((Satanic gamer if)) you sacrifice character sheets.
- ((poor gamer if)) you hit Shoney's after play and think it's a 5 Star restaurant.
- you call your boss a "God PC."
- you've got nothing better to with your life than try and make these things up.
- your daily consumption of sugar equals that of the entire contury of Peru.
- you know more people on IRC and at gaming cons than you know IRL.
- you try to remember the sizes of the planets by relating them from D4 to D100.
credits: A little from myself, alot Ghaahr_Snapper-of-Bones and the players at the Tower of Darkness.
From Ouroboros8@webtv.net
Your child can say dragon, but can't identify a horse. You do a web-search for every Internet Game (IRc, PBeM, etc.) and you already belong to them all.
Your characters have less psychosis than you do.
You bought those 4"x4" AD&D books and the 5mm dice so you can carry EVERYTHING for your game in a hip sack...
... and all your friends admire your ingenuity.
All of the fantasies of you beating the crap of the someone involve matrix-style martial arts, Rambo-style guns or a Conan-style sword.
You write 3 supplements a month...
... all for different game companies...
... built on your extensive knowledge of weapons and martial arts...
... gained from watching action movies...
... and you are surprised when you are turned down.
Gary Gygax calls you for rules-verification.
You took Geology, sociology, psychology, Kendo, Archery and horseback riding in college, so you could build a realistic game world.
You talk down to everyone on the internet because they haven't been published in a gaming magazine.
Can you say job-stress hack-and-slasher?
You call 1-976 numbers and ask the girls to speak elvish.
Your only aspirations is to own a hack-master +12.
All the cannon-fodder NPC's are named after people who have ticked you off at work.
Your player make tribute to you on game-days.
You proudly wear your dice bag on your belt like a coin-pouch.
You ride a NYC subway mumbling: elf, orc, troll, orc, orc, dwarf, orc, human, halfling....
You ride a LA bus mumbing elf, elf, elf, elf...
You keep having dreams where you are your character...
... and you think it is neat, rather than consulting a professional.
You carry a mag-lite to your Star wars RPG games.
The 'goofiest' guy you know doesn't dress up as his character on game days.
YOU ARE STILL READING THIS LIST! OH GOD! MAKE IT STOP, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
You can still think of something we missed here.
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From de.reed@xolutions.net
... you've ever seen a character lose so many sanity points that he is left wandering, drooling, through the streets of Rome so pathetically that the GM takes pity upon him and introduces a nice Italian couple (into the RPGA tournament) who take him in and give him minestrone soup.
... you and the rest of the players still tease him about the minestrone, ten Real World[tm] years later, despite the minute fact that the rest of you were *EATEN* by Cthulhu's bus-sized minion, along with the rest of Rome, and the Vatican for a snack. *burp*
... all of you continue to tease him even more vigorously when he reminds you that you still lost the tournament, and never did figure out the point of the whole thing.
... you wonder why any one would bother trying to figure out "the point" of a Cthulhu adventure.
... your character has ever had to retreat buck-naked through the streets on an alien planet thousands of parsecs from Terra because something that looked strikingly similar to an ED-209 chewed your battledress up so badly that none of the servos worked.
... you wonder which version of that game that battledress came from, and if I'll send you the stats. (Hint: MegaTraveller)
... you are considering emailing me for the stats of the ED-209 lookalike that can actually do that to battledress.
... you've ever pestered the GM about getting battledress so much that he finally relented and introduced it into the game ~ only there's a small problem: the bad guys are wearing it... and you're still trying to figure out how to get it from them with minimal colateral damage to the armor.
... you read over 500 messages a day from a single RPG mailing list.
... you know which mailing list I'm talking about.
... you babysit the neighbors kids, for free, in order to "gain more converts for the cause" by introducing them to roleplaying.
... you actually play your campaign inside a game store in the hopes that you'll attract more buyers to your favorite (failing) game line.
