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onebug @numberonebug5/12/2023, 4:31 PM

Shel @shel

Shel @shel5/12/2023, 4:16 PM

Conversation I am constantly having on dating apps

Me: I love TTRPGs! What are you favorites?

Them: I love D&D 3.5e, 4e, and 5e and also Pathfinder and Billy May's Wizards of the Coast Larceny & Slaughter 2e Family Edition.

Me: Oh I've played 5e before :)

Them: What systems do you play?

Me: Oh The Quiet Year, Dialect, The Ground Itself, Galactic/Going Rogue, Belonging Outside Belonging, very story focused GM-less stuff. Oh and I've played Lancer and a powered by the apocalypse game.

Them: Oh I haven't heard of any of those.

onebug @numberonebug5/12/2023, 4:31 PM

Like Sisyphus and his boulder, the human condition is to have this conversation on dating apps over and over in perpetuity

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graham @graham5/12/2023, 4:19 PM

I read this as the difference between someone whose identities are inclusive of a hobby (how I perceive you) versus someone whose identities are defined by that hobby (how I perceive them)

squircular reasoning @spiders5/12/2023, 4:21 PM

d&d is like the ttrpg equivalent of liberals whove read harry potter and exactly zero other books. read another book, play another game

Belarius @belarius5/12/2023, 4:37 PM

"Oh, I've never actually played. I love The Adventure Zone a ton, though!"

Quilynn @qln5/12/2023, 5:27 PM

i feel so seen by this! I've had this conversation with lots of people who love D&D but when I talk about PbtA games their eyes glaze over

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Shel @shel5/12/2023, 4:36 PM

Yeah you get it

@mhoff5/12/2023, 7:11 PM

And even if you try to engage them on it, it turns out they don't really have much to say about the game...
Getting people on these apps to express actual thoughts on things is so rough...

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