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From: Raveness Ravensbane ravenessravensbane@*****.com
Subject: [OT] You might be a gamer if...
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE? YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME AROUND
AREN'T YOU?!?!

Oh, and you missed...
* you have passed up a definate chance of getting laid
to get togeather with the guys and game.
* you call your partner their character's name in an
intimate moment.

> >Off topic? With /Bull/ commenting on it ... nooooo
> ;)
> >
> >On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:20:32 -0400 Bull
> <bull@***********.com> writes:
> ><SNIP>
> >> My favorite from one of the lists out there is
> the:
> >>
> >> * ...dealers at Gen Con know you by name...
> >> * ...and it's your first time there!
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >My favorites are from a purity test:
> >If you've ever missed a wedding because you were
> gaming
> >If you've ever missed you're own wedding ...
> >/me shoots Raveness a look ;)
> >
> >> Anyone got ideas for adding Shadowrun versions of
> the list to this?
> >
> >* ... you've ever made a stuffed great dragon doll.
> >* ... you ask your detist if you're goblinizing
> yet...
> >* ... and he said yes!
> >* ... you are counting down to the year 2011.
> >* ... you made a shopping list of cyberware and are
> just waiting for
> >science to catch up.
> >* ... you tell your friends that you're not going
> to get any implants in
> >case you are magically active.
> >* ... you read the above sentence and your first
> thought wasn't of
> >breasts.
> >* ... your ideal honeymoon is GenCon.
> >
> >--
>
> Geez my two cents must be hard currency by now :?)
> *...Any scientific advance/strange mutation story
> you hear on the news, you
> immediately compare it to something in Shadowrun
> *...You don't find the idea of elves in the future
> strange
> *...there's not a boardgame in the house that still
> has all it's dice in
> it's box, instead of in your dice bag
> *...you seriously consider what totem spirit you
> would follow
> *...The star sign or the god aren't what immediately
> what springs to mind
> when you hear the word 'Ares'
> *...You've ever risked life and limb to get to a
> game
> *...You've ever skipped more than one meal in a row
> because you've gotten to
> a good bit
> *...You own more than three Shadowrun novels, and
> reread them even though
> you don't like them, because of the background info
> *...You know who Sam Verner is but not the name of
> your local mayor
> *...You know all about your friends' four top
> characters, but nothing about
> their real life families
> *...Or what their last name is
> *..If you've bought an older edition rulebook even
> though you own the latest
> edition
>
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====~Raveness

http://www.sova.net/trish/roleplaying/shadowrun/pocketsecretary/

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