{"id":1043,"date":"2002-08-19T09:41:01","date_gmt":"2002-08-19T09:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2002-08-19T09:41:01","modified_gmt":"2002-08-19T09:41:01","slug":"honey-can-you-pass-me-the-dice-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2002\/08\/honey-can-you-pass-me-the-dice-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey, can you pass me the dice bag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiterose.org\/turn\/archives\/000346.html\">Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 9: Significant Others<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you ever gotten a significant other into gaming? Those of you in &#8220;mixed marriages&#8221;, where one spouse is a gamer and the other isn&#8217;t, how did you work this out?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I got Jackie into gaming about a year after we started dating, then into Amber, etc.  Thus far, I have never been wrong about whether or not she would like a particular game or not.  She&#8217;s a great player (although her Amber characters tend to follow a certain mold), and the games where she plays a character further outside herself are frequently her best characters.<br \/>\nJust last week in an RPGA game, she and I were both playing and she got a better score from the group that the end than I did.  She was surprised, as that&#8217;s never happened before. (Oddly, she tends to design her great characters for games in which she doesn&#8217;t play with our friends regularly; they tend to see her &#8216;regular&#8217; character personality a lot.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never &#8216;met&#8217; anyone via gaming, but two of my close friends who are now married met in my first Amber game.<br \/>\nMy first long relationship involved a non-gamer, but she often attended the games, sat quietly and (if I remember correctly) paid attention to what I was saying better than some of my players.  <i>&#8220;Weren&#8217;t you guys listening?  He just said the door is covered in slime.  Jeez.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nI think she played a couple times, but it just wasn&#8217;t her cuppa.<br \/>\nTo my personal credit, I&#8217;ve never been accused of bending the rules for my Significant Other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 9: Significant Others Have you ever gotten a significant other into gaming? Those of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}