What's the fastest way to signal to a potential mate that you're a traditional gamer?
>>44007655
With words.
If you go in too heavy with geek paraphernalia you stop being a potential mate.
>>44007655
Just ask them if they like /tg/-related stuff. If they say yes, good for you. If not, you can move on and look for someone else.
If you're afraid of asking, then you don't want this hypothetical "potential mate" that's into /tg/-related things, you want a specific person and you're hoping that they aren't scared off by your hobby.
>>44007655
Initiate the /tg/ secret handshake.
>>44007655
Not showering.
>>44007655
neckbeard
>>44007970
Bare your chest and shout "I LIKE GAMES"?
>>44008989
>critting on an opposed roll
This still bugs me up till now. What system is she supposed to be referring to?
>>44007655
The True Mane of the Lion, the Vanquisher of Razors.
>>44007655
"I like tabletop role-playing games. Have you ever tried them?"
Do you want an honest answer? Wear one of these.
I probably shouldn't find that image so lewd.
![BoH_Stock01[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/g91eKNu.jpg "BoH_Stock01[1].jpg")
>>44007655
Paraphernalia can do wonders so long as it isn't over the top. Pic related, I carry my laptop in one of these. Anyone into tabletop gaming would get the joke, but it doesn't scream it. I like that.
"Well I play some role playing games and sometimes wargames so there's that. I can show you if you are interested".
>>44008923
I want to see this shit performed by real people.
>>44007655
>painted nails
Absolutely disgusting
>>44008923
I came here to post this.
I was out with a buddy of mine at the pub and the topic of gambling got brought up. One of my longtime friends said "The only dice I like to roll have 20 sides."
I'm still not sure if that was a good line or a bad one.
>>44008989
Das ist cute.
>>44009169
Depending on definition of "crit". In Shadowrun any time you exceed threshold/opposite roll by more then 4 successes it's considered as sort of crit, but it doesn't automatically lead to any bonuses.
In gurps you auto hit at 3-4 as far as I know, even on opposed check.
>>44011084
Bad one, your friend's a d&dnigger who's never played a good d6 based game for dat delicious bell curve
Hey, I'm new here. How do I downvote posts that don't belong?
>>44007655
this is quite possibly the gayest/cringiest thread ever initiated on /tg/.
congrats OP, youre a real faggot
>>44011448
Are you fucking serious?
I mean, it's not exactly the best thread either, but a thread about "How do I figure out if someone else is into /tg/ related stuff." is hardly the worst thing that's ever been asked here.
>>44007655
i only talk to people at my flgs
>>44011395
You should share that post on twitter with hashtag #thumbsdown
>>44011448
As opposed to the quest threads?
>>44011503
are you looking to score a chick that games?
cause thats pathetic. woman should'nt be anywhere near this shit-- they'll fucking ruin it
>>44011553
What is a hashtag? Do you mean "octothorpe"?
>>44011749
>octothorpe
Look at this egghead and laugh!
>>44011675
Pot meet kettle
>>44010304
Some girl in one of my classes had this bag
>"Hey, do you play D&D?"
>"oh, no, I don't
>"Any tabletop games?"
>"nope"
>mfw
>>44012100
Maybe she didn't want to talk to you because you're ugly
>>44012978
She had gone out of her way to talk to me at points before. She was one of those desperate for new friends nerdy freshmen types.She was pretty ugly herself, a huge weeb (in the bad way, and was guaranteed tumblr.
>>44007655
Wear your d20s on the outside.
>>44008923
Kek
>>44007655
I attempted that with my nails once.
Ended up looking like shit.
>>44013074
oh dont try to play yourself off, shes probably pretty cute
why dont you teach her how to play anon?
>>44008923
I have to try the motions every time I see it.
>>44014998
Because this was 2 years ago, and I've already graduated.
Also, no seriously. She was really annoying. She was the kind of person who acted like they knew a lot, but didn't. You know, the kind of person who answers a question with confidence and authority, but spouts complete bullshit that the professor just kind of has to go "umm, alright." at.
>>44010174
>I'm not the only one
Thank God
>>44008989
Man, I miss Quick Start. It was fucking hilarious.
>>44011675
Now that's cringey.
I tell all girls right off the bat when they ask me what I do for fun. I'm not really worried about scaring them away because I'm probably not interested in someone who would be scared (even as friends).
>>44007655
your obesity, poor personal hygiene and social ineptitude should be enough
>>44007655
stuff like this - distinctive enough to be recognised by those in the know, inconspicious enough to be discounted as "random metal logo" by everybody else
A) ask what his hobbies are
B) he sees /tg/ paraphernalia around your house before the subject comes up
>>44016779
>dat filename
>>44007933
Note: Don't literally ask "Do you like tee-gee-related stuff?"
Dare him to enter your magical realm, if he doesn't rape you dump him.
>>44007655
Casually say something like "my friends and I play D&D sometimes" and don't be a total dweeb about it.
>inb4 but I don't play D&D
Most people know what "D&D" is and it'll give them the general idea without warranting much of an explanation. Which is good, because if you have to explain you're groups last game of Lasers and Feelings then you've fucked it up.
>>44017001
If someone opened with "I play D&D" I would avoid them like a plague they are.
>>44007785
>With words.
>If you go in too heavy with geek paraphernalia you stop being a potential mate.
Indeed. This should have been a /Thread.
>Play D&D
That's a warning sign, not a potential mate.
>>44011309
Well, in Shadowrun 4, having a crit gave you the possibility to give more style to you action.
>>44017001
and even if they do know other games by saying d&d you ensure that its not a game they don't know
>>44011448
what trying to determine if a potential mate shares your intrests is a perfectly practical thing.
I will take this over those fagots who make threads asking how to get in relationships with those in there groups any day.
>>44007655
I was rifling through my notebooks at the start of class once and a girl I'd recently made friends with saw my nWoD sheets.
She made a light "lolnerd" joke and I quickly realized she was flirting (a notion reinforced by her asking if I wanted to grab lunch later that day)
But I'm too much of a badass for dating so I declined.
>>44011084
What the fuck kind of weapon deals d20 damage?
See if they play board games? Because seriously everyone in the 20-something set plays Catan or Cards Against Humanity.
Or are you asking if they're the type that needs the escapist fantasy of RPGs or the meaningless complexity of CCGs and wargames to fill their empty lives?
>>44019784
>>44012100
She was lying.
>>44007655
I have painted the imperial double headed eagle on my headphones. That should give you a hint.
Otherwise it'll just surface in conversation.
>>44011448
I've started stupider threads.
>>44020747
Same. I'm WAY more of a faggot than OP.
>>44007655
Honestly? Merch t-shirt. Band shirts exist because they're an effective way to project your tastes and subculture membership.
>>44011084
Then your friend is playing exclusively diplomatic classes and/or has a shockingly shitty to-hit on most targets?
>>44019784
You know not what you ask
>>44019784
>obligatory
>>44007785
/thread
>>44017035
You should never /thread your own post. Which only proves the /threadiness of that post.
![zBb4TJ2[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/h4xJjtN.gif "zBb4TJ2[1].gif")
>>44021234
>mfw
>>44021273
>>44021273
Never noticed the photoshopped katanas on the wings before. Neat.
>>44021273
>>44021300
>>44021302
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jtalSXjJLU
Also, it turns out that Japs make some damn good pseudo-country rock.
>>44016797
I actually don't recognize that logo. Is it Lolth?
>>44010866
fag
>>44021435
Golgari from M:tG
>>44015035
>being this judgmental for no real reason
She's just awkward and probably highly opinionated. From the sounds of it, you two would have had a lot in common. Who knows, anon?Not you, naturally.
>>44007655
Hot, but I'd have liked it more if she didn't paint a 3 on every nail.
>>44016856
I am disheartened that this needs to be specified.
This board is getting shittier every day
>>44015011
the response looks quite a bit easier than the initiation. shit's unbalanced.
>>44014945
fag
>>44007655
>they don't know the salute
>>44008923
Oh thank god.
>>44021300
Yajirobe?
>>44007655
Somewhat related - I married a girl with no interest in /tg/ related stuff. Ive tried to pique her interest, and shes given it a few tries. She isnt against it, and doesnt look down on it or anything - just not into it.
She does have a 10/10 body and a 8/10 face, and we have just about everything else in common - but /tg/ stuff is such a big part of me, it still sucks.
We've been together 14 years, married for 10. My advice is to gauge a potential partners (dis)interest in /tg/ stuff - and weigh it against how important it isto you. It doesnt have to be a do or die situation. Good luck op.
>>44017001
That's what I usually default to as well, and usually only if someone casually asks about my interests.
It's easier than explaining what stuff like Dark Heresy or Malifaux is.
>>44017015
No you wouldn't.
They wouldn't open with anything at all.
>>44022891
Or try Song of Swords, or any other game based primarily around /tg/.
>Yeah, I play a game you can only find on an obscure board of a pretty obscure website that's based on an obscure system which tries to emulate this obscure sport called HEM- wait why are you leaving?
>>44017001
See, I feel like most people would be much more interested in something like Lasers and Feelings or maybe Big Motherfuckin Crab Truckers than D&D, because D&D has a stigma and is complicated, whereas those others are simple and funny.
Simple and funny is definitely the kind of game you want to start people out on. Everyone is John will usually go over fine at a party or get-together, something like CoC or DnD, not so much.
>>44022891
I usually just say "board games and roleplaying games".
>>44022698
>shit's unbalanced.
Like all the games we discuss
>>44021324
Oh god this is totally what Japanese Nashville would put out
>>44023054
I think you missed the point, anon.
This isn't "let's play D&D", it's "I play D&D (by which I mean tabletop roleplaying games)".
![stop_penis_erect_archer[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/5JzLSkW.gif "stop_penis_erect_archer[1].gif")
>>44023227
>Oh god this is totally what Japanese Nashville would put out
>>44022824
pics or gtfo
>>44023294
>Tobi Kita in a kabuto helmet
>Josuke Kashiwagi covers 9inch-Nell's "Hurt" to critical acclaim
>Taeko Suwa's transition from country to pop- country to full-on pop-diva
What would they even call country music? Edo-punk?
>>44009169
Probably a japanese system like Double Cross
>>44023415
I dunno but I hope it has that YOOOO! thing you get in old-timey Japanese music.
>>44023415
>Edo-punk?
Rice-Banjo
>>44023434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wcuoxs4mU
>>44023466
Yeah, that one!
>>44023466
>>44023484
>mfw Japs speaking other languages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCgdCEKxyaE
>>44023466
>johnny cash-hurt in the suggested videos
Excellent.
How about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkE66w3zX4
>>44023436
Well, I know what I'm calling the shamisen from now on.
>>44023512
Hilarious
I made a Space Marine Tinder profile and listed my interests as purging xenos and expunging heretics in the name of the Emperor and so on..
Still waiting...
>>44023088
I tried that until I realized most people on the street confuse "roleplaying game" with Skyrim.
>>44016797
That requires you to actually wear t-shirts with pictures on them in public.
>>44007655
I dont have time to talk to the plebian gender females, I spend all my time with my 16th level half-orc barbarian waifu
>>44007655
>>44008923
>first you go like this
>then like thiiiis
>then this and this and this and this and this!
>BRING IT AROUUUUUND TOWN!
>>44024522
pray tell, what do you wear in public?
>>44025215
Not him, but I hate T-shirts and I think the last time I wore one was just because I wanted a quick shirt to pack in a backpack for an overnight trip.
A good 80-90% of my wardrobe consists of linen and seersucker pants and shorts, paired with silk or linen button-down shirts.
>>44025215
Not him but I'm equally autistic and fuck graphic T-shirts.
Maybe some band or product T-shirts work as an ice breaker or you're proud to be a fan of something. But that seems pretty rare and it isn't saying anything, it's not a form of self-expression beyond, "I like this band, okay?"
The everyday graphic T-shirts are the worst though. What the hell is "Tokyo Laundry"? What is "Hype"? Have you been to Amsterdam or Miami, or do you just like white T-shirts with Instagram-filter photographs and captions of those cities?
The Rolling Stones lick, Dark Side of the Moon cover, and Northern Soul get a special commendation for being somewhere between these two.
At the end of the day, why not just buy plain shirts?
>>44011675
MGTOW plz go.
>>44025215
>pray tellAlso the answer is presumably plain t-shirts; block colours. I'm assuming he's a /fa/ggot or something.
>>44025932
/fa/ pays hundreds of dollars for graphic t-shirts because some designer designed it. They're weird.
>>44026002
>graphic tees
>/fa/
?????
>>44026044
It's been a while. Did they get over their Raf Simons phase? Or was it "peacoats are timeless" levels of trolling all along?
>>44025215
>wearing things in public.
>>44026103
What the fuck are with those proportions?
>>44026281
I wouldn't worry about it, anon.
>>44026281
I don't know. Probably one of those
>Model is 6' 3" and wears a Medium
even though you're a manlet and also wear a medium.
They don't hire normal people to model clothes.
>>44026306
I'm watching you anon...
>>44016797
I play ttrpg for like 15 years and don't recognise it
>>44026449
You're clearly not a real operator then.
>>44025465
>At the end of the day, why not just buy plain shirts?
Because I like the design?
>>44026449
That's because you don't have shit-tier taste.
>>44008923
I almost spat hot chocolate over my monitor.
>>44026306
Right... Right...
>>44026398
>>44026696
Hey, do you guys want to go see something really cool I found in the woods?
>>44026728
No thanks. I'm good. Allergies.
>>44026791
Come on anon, it'll be fun! I dare say that it'll even change your life!
>>44025932
I saved this picture so nobody would ever listen to /fa/ ever again.
>>44026991
That guy in the tan jacket
>My feet hurt
>Steve is looking at me
>I don't like Steve
>His hair smells funny
>His pants are rolled up asymmetrically
>I wish I was at home on 4chan complaining about other people's clothing
>>44027057
I am more concerned that his neck is so god damn long. He looks like that guy from the BE ADVISED picture.
Take off that flat cap and he is less comically dressed than half the people in that lineup.
>>44027109
>Take off that flat cap and he is less comically dressed than half the people in that lineup.
But then how will we know he's /fa/ and different?
Do you want him to look like one of those plebs dressing like adults from /r/MFA?
>>44027192
This would be less sad if I had not actually seen /fa/ criticise people for dressing like a well put together adult.
>>44011675
this is quite possibly the gayest/cringiest post ever initiated on /tg/.
congrats anon, youre a real faggot
>>44007655
SpaghettiEveryone loves a good traditional Italian dinner date
>>44009169
WoD has you get a crit if you get 5 more successes than the other guy (or possibly "at least 5 successes, as long as the number is more than the other guy got", it's not really clear), but that uses pools of d10s and a static target number.
>>44027513
Phew, thank goodness I always order pepperoni pizza.
>>44021324
That's just the Yoshida Brothers. Shit, that's not even the whole song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_CzD0GBD-4
![bf1ac92ba5[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0jOoroJ.jpg "bf1ac92ba5[1].jpg")
>>44026991
>>44027598
Have them collaborating with some Canadian pop-rock group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc4AkEC_UWU
>>44019752
Mama i'm gonna be a slave
(all day long)
Mama i'm gonna try 'behave
(all day long)
>>44026002
That neck
>>44026991
>>44027600
Is 'Ey bby' a young Matt Berry?
>>44008923
My right or their right?
>>44028552
Yes.
>>44024054
I'll sometimes specifiy "table-top roleplaying games" if I think they'll assume vidya.
>>44028552
Wink their right eye exactly 16 times.
>>44009169
An RPG name Alshard.
Damn you, OP. Every time I see your thread in the catalog I get a little turned on.
>>44011675
go sit in the corner and think about what you just said
>>44007655
B URSELF
>>44027600
This guy gets it.
>>44036975
Do you actually believe anon means what he said?
>>44028912
I think theres a spell for that
>>44007655
Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
>>44017001
Saying you like d&d when you dont to show you like rpg
would be the equivalent of saying you like david guetta to show you like electronic music.
>>44010304
>Anyone into tabletop gaming would get the joke
Nope if they are patricians that dont play d&d
>>44021273
American planes are better, their jet fuel melt steel beams
>>44037478
No, it wouldn't.
See, I don't know who David Guetta is. You could literally just say "I'm into electronic music" and I'd understand you better.
This is the opposite case with ttRPGs.
>>44037610
indeed
>>44037610
I use the line "I like RPGs, kinda similar to DnD."
Still, it took ... 4 dates (not actual dates) to explain what ttRPGs are. I finally manage to explain it as "It's a story, a collaborative story. One person makes a setting, a world, and the other people decide what they want to do it in, and the person to runs the game decides what effect those actions have on the world". People might understand ... I have no idea what other people think it is, which seems very alien to me. I can only imagine that ttRPGs so that foreign that people cannot comprehend even what it could be.
>>44007655
Inform them that you spend a lot of time playing traditional games.
>>44037803
Why waste you breath on that. I just say I like boardgames.
>>44039103
Board games and ttRPGs are nothing alike, anon.
>>44039448
But I'm not going to explain that to some stranger. If you want a girl to know you're "nerdy" just say boardgames. It's more socially acceptable and she can relate to playing boardgames.
>>44039515
In my experience, board games is considerably less socially acceptable than ttRPGs, which is why I'd always go with D&D. But that's probably just down to my (presumably) differing geography.
>>44012100
It is a nice design.
>>44039539
Wow really? Where are you from that D&D is acceptable and boardgames aren't
>>44026306
>>44039586
SE England.
You've gotta understand the cultural osmosis at work here; it's cool to be a certain brand of nerd. Vidya, Star Wars -- and D&D. But boardgames? They remain (in the public's eye) solidly the domain of fat, balding middle-aged men along with model trains and aeroplanes.
>>44039613
Interesting. I'm from Russia and it's not like D&D is frowned upon, people don't know about it and it's a pain to explain and you get nothing out of explaining it on a first/second date. In my experience boardgames seemed to go over pretty well, thanks to time cafes with stacks of casual games. Also a lot of people own Munchkin or even more popular Dixit.
>>44039675
Oh, you absolutely don't need to explain D&D to anyone here. If you said board games, people would either assume Monopoly and Ludo etc., or the aforementioned antisocial middle aged men.
>>44039613
Bullshit, I am from SE England and everyone I know has played at least the casual boardgames, every family has them in their house. And everyone I knew at university played boardgames.
If anything the stereotype is that boardgames are for children and families, I have never even heard of the idea that they are for middle aged men with train sets.
>>44040161
Read >>44039739 mang.
By "board game" I meant *these* board games, as in wargames, worker placement games and the like. Not family board games.
And if you said "I'm really into boardgames" people aren't going to assume you mean fucking snakes and ladders.
>>44040997
>wargames
Even some of the 'cool' kids at school played those, I have never seen people be outright accepting of them or people who play them.
>>44041073
*outright unaccepting
In any case they are not 'boardgames', if you said really into boardgames people might assume Ticket to Ride, Catan, Cosmic Encounter and similar.
>>44027543
>nWoD
>>44007655
Walk around with large, spiky Warhammer models crammed down your underpants, poking out of the rim of your trousers from every angle.
Make sure it crunches and rustles as you walk.
An aside: how is this thread so remarkably civil?
>>44041099
>people might assume Ticket to Ride, Catan, Cosmic Encounter and similar.By wargame I don't mean 40k etc.
Yeah. That would be considered less socially acceptable than D&D.
>>44007655
Whip out Love Letter.
>>44010304
My girlfriend bought me this bag for my birthday
It's actually not bad.
>>44041532
Accept the change, bruv.
>>44010093
Seconding that.
>>44027633
>>44021324
Oh man are you kidding, welcome aboard. Japanese people are tops at country-style music. It hits some part of their musical brain that other genres don't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HivbtzotFCE
>>44041984
What DO you mean then.
And you apparently interact with a very strange subset of people if you think Ticket to Ride is less socially acceptable than Dungeons and Dragons.
>>44023027
Kickstarter soon, brother.Right?
>>44042815
Most people don't have a clue what this "Ticket to Ride" thing is, let alone Catan (unless they watch Big Bang Theory or something).
>>44042939
W E D N E S D A Y
>>44043548
The point is its a board game which is seen as more normal by default than anything like DnD.
Nobody is going to assume you are a weirdo if you bring out a game like that and teach them how to play it instead of Scrabble or Monopoly. They will probably have a lot of fun in fact.
![2010-12-22-Christmas-Gamer-Greetings[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ioUI06c.jpg "2010-12-22-Christmas-Gamer-Greetings[1].jpg")
>>44007655
>Hay gaiz, we're GAYMERS, aren't we cool GEEKS and GAYMER GURLZ xDDD
>THE CAKE IS A LIE LINK NEVER TALKS BAZINGA xDDDDD
>>44019784
Might not be for damage rolls.
Mutants and Masterminds uses nothing but d20s.
>>44026398
Tech priest Halloween costume? Normal folk see cyber thing, /tg/ folk see cog bro.
>>44007655
>What's the fastest way to signal to a potential mate that you're a traditional gamer?
Open your mouth and tell them the games you play.
>>44026449
That's the logo from a guild in MTG, Golgari
>>44037078
>>44043932
I think the MOST damning thing about this comic is-
>copyright 2010
>>44028552 Try both ways.
