Turning my wife into a gamer
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Turning my wife into a gamer

It’s an every day occurrence for some of us lucky ones, but a pipe dream for others – gaming with our better halves, that is. “Quality Time” with my wife is often spent rolling dice or shuffling cards at the kitchen table, cloistered up in our bedroom in front of our PC’s playing a game or vegging out in the living room around the xbox with the kids. Speaking of kids, mine are much the same (though in moderated and monitored amounts). We are a family of gamers, and I couldn’t be happier about it but for others even so much as convincing their loved one(s) to sit down and game with can be like pulling teeth.

Mind you, getting my wife into gaming may have been a bit easier for me than others, but it was no cakewalk by any means. She grew up playing Sega and Playstation games, board games and the like but always had reservations about the “D&D Nerds” her older sister hung out with in high school. Computer games were not really a thing in her household either, aside from maybe The Sims or flash games online, so when I met her and told her I was a ‘gamer’ she vastly underestimated what I meant by that.

A few years ago, during the first few months of our relationship and several days into the first of many reactivation/cancellation cycles of my World of Warcraft account, she got her first glimpse into what true ‘gamerdom’ could be.  At first WoW wasn’t even something that really appealed to her, and I was definitely going about it all wrong in attempting to show her what the game was all about.

At one point she was finally about fed up with me playing the game, so I decided it was time to re strategize my approach and explained the elements of the game that I thought she would enjoy most, as opposed to my own gaming-malformed brain. So I marketed it as a game where you get to create a little person, buy her fancy clothes, blow things up with fireballs, go shopping and ride pretty animals – and somehow it worked. She had said [paraphrased] “Okay, show me how to play this game if you’re going to be spending so much on it” and then, not before long – Dibbles the gnome mage was born.

Readying an action
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Readying an action

So it’s been over a week without much of an update here, gotta admit it seems the past month life has really had me by the dice bags. I’ve been caught in a swell of creating stuff for castle ravenloft, planning a new campaign for the fall, reading the rules compendium front to back and making arrangements to expand my website and put some flyers around FLGS’s in my area. Couple all this with a wishy washy desire to get back into LOTRO and my newly re-acquired lust for playing Halo till the wee hours of the morning and the end result is an absence of blog content!

I’m working on fleshing out a lot of projects at the moment, all gaming related of course so fret not loyal readers. If you poke around the site you might notice some subtle changes to the layout, I’m also toying with a new theme but I may decide against it. What do you think? It’s been an adjustment getting used to making posts for myrpgame.com as well as my own, I’m never really sure what to post here and what to post there and so on. I must say though ThadeousC has been great with me about post content and deadlines, and he’s super fun to work with. I think I’ve finally gotten a game plan together though and in the coming months you’ll be seeing a lot more usable content here along with my usual stories, reviews and editorials.

Another thing I’ve been working on is creating some content for submission to WoTC and perhaps a few other sources, the anxiety that comes with the thought of submitting my work is much more overwhelming than I had imagined. Turns out I’ve got a pretty bad case of internet stage fright, I know it seems silly for a guy who runs a blog and tweets all day but that is so much different than putting your name on something to have industry professionals scrutinize. It’s one thing to write a review of a product or a blurb about this and that, but creating something to be presentable at your absolute best is daunting, at least for me.