Nerve is running "Sex Advice From Dungeons & Dragons Players," answering questions about RPGs, role-playing, and finding mating opportunities among the nerdy. It's a delight.
Sex Advice From Dungeons & Dragons Players (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
What's the best way to pick up a D&D player?
If you're a geek and you see a girl geek browsing the comic books and players' manuals, don't make assumptions. Nothing irritates me more than having someone tell me what I'm holding. I know what I'm holding. Aside from the fact that I came in here specifically looking for it, I CAN READ. Instead, try a trivia tidbit or a commentary on the quality/author/whatever. Your goal is to sound interested, not condescending. For the non-geek, we're really not that strange and different, but we tend to be a little defensive. Be willing to listen, stumble through some conversation you don't have the lingo for. Don't mock. Unless your romantic candidate starts talking about their characters in detail. No one finds that interesting. Really. Get out while you still can.
Previously:
- Portrait of the blogger as a young D&D addict - Boing Boing
- Steampunk D&D Beholder sculpture - Boing Boing
- D&D-style map of C++ - Boing Boing
- Flowchart: How D&D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness ...
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- Election 08 as a Dungeons and Dragons campaign - Boing Boing
- New Dungeons and Dragons license less sleazy than I believed ...
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It will be interesting to read their advice once one of the actually has sex with another person.
@wgmleslie: your naiveté amuses the rest of us :)
Isn't that like getting financial advice from a homeless person? :P
Well, a homeless person can survive on nothing...
I'm sure the above comments are made in an ironic fashion. I got into D&D casually only a year or two ago and the people with whom I've played all had healthy sex lives and didn't fit the 1980s dice-rolling stereotype (I'm not sure it's even applicable anymore).
Anyone who would make comments about D and D players not having sex have obviously never played, or known many people who have. I have been playing for most of my life, and I can tell you that D and D players have MORE sex, (and kinkier sex) than the average population. Not all of them of course, but on average they tend to be very sexual people. And yes, especially these days, roleplayers (the dice kind...not the in bed kind necessarily) run a much larger gamut than anytime previously. I know of several games in my area where all of the players are female (and one where all of the players are lawyers), so don't rely on old out-dated stereotypes.
My (completely subjective, but based on having been involved in both communities) experience has been that there is a HUGE cross-over between D&D roleplayers and kinky/BDSM types, which would tend to confirm that once they're old enough to get into the play parties, D&D players are having plenty of (creative) sex. The cross-over has always amused me- the similarities between the subcultures (detailed rules of behaviour, dramatic/slightly silly costumes, fancy titles, acting out elaborate scenarios, calling someone Dungeon Master with a straight face) remind me not to take the BDSM side of things quite so seriously as some people do.
Actually, the vast majority of D&D players that I know are not virgins, and most of them are in long term relationships/married.
sadly, I'm the exception. ;_;
Never been with a gamer girl? I've gone one word for you: LARP.
God love the corset
Elf chicks are hawt...
Umm, did I say that out loud?
Boy, that whole column and no real d&d sex advice. So here's some of my tips:
1) The Wand of Orcus makes a lousy sex toy.
2) Telling Dwarven women their beards tingle in the act of you-know-what is a good way to lose certain parts
3) Once you get over the stench, female half-orcs are great in the sac, mainly because they are ecstatic because even kobolds are more endowed than a male half-orc.
4) Yes, that lich has oodles of magic stuff, is a real genius, and seriously rich, though a geek loner, like Bill Gates before he got married. However, like Hugh Hefner and other old, dessicated things, the last time his equipment worked was when he was still alive--and there ain't no viagra spell in d&d land.
In other D&D news (this one related to the health care bill): Dungeons & Dragons Players Ponder Mysterious Power of Costshifter Character: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/11/dungeons-dragons-players-ponder.html
Anyone know which vendor sells the Potion of Confidence?
and one where all of the players are lawyers
Oh man, I'm not sure lawyers and RPGs should ever mix. Regular role players argue about the rules enough as it is. I get mental images of lawyers formally objecting and citing the relevant section of the game manual whenever there's a disagreement.
I'd have thought most D&D players would have read the definitive article on this that the Foglios published back in the 1990s:
(warning: NSFW)
http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20080518
... Is that any different from regular rules lawyers? It sounds actually like it would be more civil and polite than the usual modus operandi. Bring on the lawyers!
Considering my folks first met at a wargamming session, I think it's fair to say even the 70's and 80's crew did it too, at least once or twice.
the RPers i knew in college put the "virgins huddled in the basement on saturday night" myth to a long overdue death. they were among some of the most sexually active and adventurous people i'd ever met!
not only had they formed a tight knit group of hard core geeks and gamers, but they were all quite active outside of the RP, working in theaters and the art scenes. of course, this led to LARPing...
i was reluctant to join the LARP, but was being persued by my friend ian to join. one evening, a girl i had been infatuated with joined me at the dining hall and we chatted and flirted for an hour. we left the dining hall, and walked across campus to a darkened tunnel. she kissed me and gave me a bite. and suddenly, the mood changed. she fixed her hair and jacket, handed me a character packet from her bag and said "you are now a ghoul minion of clan gangrel...ian would like you to meet him at his apartment in 30 minutes..."
very persuasive tactics, ian!!
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Hardly none of the players in my group get to have sex.
They're all married!
Oh, I'm killing me here. Haha.
best d&d players to avoid dating:
those who rant bitterly about "things not to do" in reply to a "best way to" question, yikes!