Hello fellow gamers! My wife and I created this blog to record the adventures of our little gaming group for better or worse. Most people have a misconceived notion of gamers, role players in particular, and we decided to try and wipe the slate clean once and for all.
As for the life of this blog... we plan to simply record the adventures we play and have played in the past. D&D, Cthulhu, a smattering of Star Wars perhaps, and maybe just maybe some of the pranks we've pulled online in The World of Warcraft. We'll split up the prose to showcase both the out-of-game social interaction and a cinematic account of what's going on ingame. You might enjoy it, you might not. What matters is that we had a helluva time playing it. And so could you...
COMMOM MISNOMERS
#1 Not all gamers are forty-year-olds living in their parents' basement. Some are, true, but most are just regular folk like yourself who simply choose to lose themselves in their imagination once in a while. I mean seriously, isn't reality lacking sometimes? It's nice to pretend for an evening that you and your friends are heroes or heroines saving the day and slaying bad guys left and right. I do draw the line at dressing up though...
#2 Not all gamers use Axe Spray as a substitute for showering. Now I know this one can be tough to swallow, especially if you've ever been to Comic Con, Gen Con, or any Magic the Gathering pre-releases. My wife does indeed carry Axe Spray to those events to ward off the random olfactory assaults. But that's not all gamers. Personal hygiene is very important. And I can testify that myself and the group of friends we play with also consider it a priority. If you, however, are one of the offending party that believe sweat actually bathes you clean, please, follow these instructions. 1) Strip down. 2) Enter your bath or shower. 3) Turn those metal knobs or whatever strange device you see poking from underneath the spigot. 4) Enter bath or streaming water, lather up with soap and wash. And I know some of you might be grinning that grin-of-recognition about yourself right now. Trust me, not one single person enjoys the mass funk that arises from a Magic pre-release where 100 gamers are stuck in a room with no ventilation. Just fucking shower.
#3 When we role play we do not dress up. Period. If you do feel the need to garb yourself in your black cloak of resistance +2 and hold your keen longsword while you play... stop. Just stop. You're ruining it for the rest of us. I don't need to see your crappy props. This game is about using your imagination. So use it. Trust me, the way I imagine how your character looks far outweighs anything you could have made or bought at last year's RenFaire.
#4 LARPing is just plain silly. See #3.
#5 Role players DO NOT worship the satan. Well, that might not be entirely true, I've never taken a poll and firmly believe anyone should worship whatever imaginary deity they so desire, but I do know that satan worship is not a requirement for role players in general. Also, we DO NOT sacrifice cats, children, witches, saprolings, etc. First off, that gets really messy. Second, why would we? We are playing an imaginary game so that we can use imaginary magic in an imaginary world. If there was any real magic in the real world and sacrificing anything gave us access to it, we would not be role playing.
Forgive the plug but...
We recently wrote, produced and directed a wonderful film that attempts to capture what role playing is truly like so that the mainstream uninitiated could see we're all regular peeps. It is called, Natural 20, hence the name of this self-promoting blog. It recently won Best Humor Film at Comic Con 2012, and earned my wife a Best Directing Nomination at iTV/Pop Con. It's also playing at Gen Con this year (screw you Dragon Con) and Action on Film Festival later in August. Check it out at www.natural20thefilm.com. Hopefully it will be released shortly (after the festivals), and if we find funding, have plans for a web series that won't look like it was shot on my uncle's VHS camcorder (cough cough nudge nudge, The Guild).
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