The first time I saw a bunch of guys sitting around talking through playing a game I was a little bored at first. There was no gameboard or deck of cards, just paperwork and dice. But as I watched them play and tried my hardest to understand their jokes, I analyzed their story and couldn't understand why they kept doing it wrong.
Why couldn't their characters see the clues right in front of them? I started to point it out a few times, but in the end I was forced to allow their story to unfold without my bits of wisdom as I had not created a character & joined them in playing.
I learned a very important lesson those days: watching people play D&D is boring and irritating. It is so much worse that going out with your boyfriend to his friends' house to hangout while they all play video games for hours.
I made an unspoken vow to never again allow that to happen. I would never again be that girl sitting there for four hours watching the guys play.
I began to craft my own characters, to join them on these adventures. I would be the barbarian half-orc with a crowbar or the dragonborn warlord with ice breath.
Steps were taken to become less sappy and be taken more serious by gaming geeks. It's still a work in progress.
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