RPGs as Clingy Girlfriends

[Patrick O'Duffy]

I don't date any more.

I'm too busy pimping.

Fifty bucks gets you some hot double-time action with both Demon and Gamma World, playas...

[Doctor Guilty]

There have been many in my time, but only a few stand out.

Twilight: 2000 was my love in high school. She was like nothing I'd seen before; she was interested in the world, she was grounded in reality (more or less), and she liked guns as much as I do. She had her odd habits - I never did understand why she liked dividing magazine capacties by 3 - but I took them for what they were and we had a great time through high school and into college. As was bound to happen, though, the magic faded. She always had a little bit of a survivalist bent, and just couldn't adjust when the Soviet Union fell apart. We're still good friends, though, and we hang out every once in a while to talk about the old times.

She liked that I became good friends with her cousins Space: 1889 and 2300AD, and she understood when I got involved with her older sister, Traveller (or "MegaTraveller," as she was calling herself then). MT did things in a kind of "old-school" way, but she had some great stories to tell in the beginning, especially when she told me about her days as just "Traveller." Ah, I loved those old stories.

Then Traveller came back after a long rest (something about a "Virus," I didn't ask) and started calling herself Traveller: The New Era. I liked her new look; she reminded me of T2K enough that we were together for a good while. But the magic started to die; I just wanted to have a good time, and she kept going on and on about rebuilding the world. We tried to keep things going, but when she trotted forth the "Regency" to somehow bring back the magic of her first self I knew it was doomed.

There were other games, of course; GURPS and I get still get along pretty well, and I go for a beer every now and then with Star Wars D6. But that all changed when I met this knockout named Heavy Gear.

Damn, she was amazing when I first met her (and is still a lot of fun today). She looked gorgeous AND had a lot of depth - so much that it put some people off, but that just made me more determined. She did almost everything I wanted right from the start, and I've even been able to help her a bit to become what she is today. She doesn't even mind my occasional dalliance with Jovian Chronicles or the latest addition to her family, CORE Command.

She's been laying low for a while; I heard she's taking some time off to get some things sorted out. It's okay, though. I'll still be here.

EDIT: In the meantime, I'm having a good time withBlue Planet v2. It's nothing serious, but she likes the ocean as much as I do.

[SirCabhán]

My first love was a local girl called Rekab. She was the Jewish version of D&D [bad pun I know], but was a lot more subtle and was always changing, which kept things interesting, but I outgrew her high fantasy ways, and being a Goth I wanted something a bit darker [and I think late teen angst had a lot to do with it too]. So we parted company and I've never heard from her again.

Then I got introduced to Vampire, the ultimate slutty bisexual Goth chick. We had a very hot and sweaty relationship together, and I love how I was able to bend her backwards over the gaming table and the way she always bit my shoulder at the most crucial moment. But I wanted more than she could give me.

Cyberpunk was a very modern girl, intellectual but not too geeky with it. We still flirt from time to time but I've never had her in the sack. Maybe one day soon I will change that...

Vampire's sister, Werewolf, was just an oddity to me. I didn't really dig her new age hippy chic with claws, so after a brief flirtation I moved on.

Then Vampire matured a bit, and this time our relationship was an open one where sometimes I'd be with her, and sometimes I'd be with someone else, but there was no magic left between us. Even though she had become more sophisticated as she aged, she lost that original Gothic angst she had when I first met her.

Vampire's sister, Mage, just did my head in. I'd read with her and find that we had nothing in common.

Wraith I would have liked to have gone out with, but alas, she died of something nasty before I had the chance.

Changeling was a darling. She was witty and fun and serious all at the same time, and we'd have a blast just reading long into the night and exploring new ideas together, but I had no one to show her off to, and that broke my heart. I hear that she is in intensive care at the moment, and I am afraid that she will go the same way as her sister, Wraith.

Action! is one of my new loves, and being older and wiser I have gone for an open relationship. At the moment we're still at the flirting stage.

Exalted and I read long into the night together, exploring a whole new world in my bedroom, but so far we haven't gone out on any serious dates together as yet.

Engel D20 I didn't get on with. I loved how she looked but she was useless in the sack, like her cousin, D&D 3E. I like the look of her twin, but unfortunately, I do not speak German so I have no way of communicating with her.

Changeling I do visit from time to time in the intensive care ward, vainly hoping that she would wake up from her coma, but I am afraid that soon I may be attending her funeral.

Sir Cabhán.

[Sleeper]

Originally posted by PhosphorRose
D&D3E is like the boyfriend who's promised he's turned over a new leaf and at first looks like he has.

Then you notice the bed's been left unmade when you come back from work and he's been sleeping all day.

Then you slip on the dirty underwear left on the floor.

Then you notice the half-empty beer bottles around the house.

Then you realize it's the same as it ever was.

Eloquent.

-Pat

[Evan Waters]

*Sigh* Everyone resents the popular girl...

[Dulahan]

Alert! alert! Thread Necromancy, Well, I saw someone asking about it and decided to add my own little twist.



Like everyone D&D in all her little personalities have had quite a few good years. She was my first and I will occasionally go back to her, we just don't hit it off anymore.

We first grew distant when a hip girl named Shadowrun crossed my path, it was short. But it was fun, I just liked her sister, Earthdawn, a bit more. She was a lot more my type, a bit more mystical and geeky...

Yet even she would fall to the side when another girl blindsided me and left me speechless. Fading Suns came into my life and we've been steady ever since. Sure we've grown distant now, as she seems to be in a rather depressed state. But I never can stop thinking of her and just waiting for her to reach her lovely heights once again. But man was she perfect, for so long just the right combination of Goth and Asian and Geek and mystical. I swear, she is the classiest gal I've ever known. Even in her down state I can curl up with her for hours and not regret a moment of it. I just wish things would be a bit more like they once were. But I sure as hell won't give her up!

A lot of others came and went in the mean time, far too many. But a couple more would really catch my eyes. Including my newest fling.

Exalted was a beaut. Though came amidst the horde of other gals, but eventually I came back to her and realized just what I was missing and wow has it been great. She's right up there with Fading Suns, though the two really are almost opposites. Both are fun in their own little ways. Fortunately, Exalted is still in quite the good mood and the relationship just keeps getting better.

Amidst the relationship with Exalted though, a gal who'd caught my eyes and whom I'd even spoken with once or twice at the coffee house, but never decided to go out with came back and caught me at the right time. Changeling I'd always thought was a cutey, but there was something about her. I realized I was being shallow and just looking at her on the surface, I realized just how amazing she was. It was a fast, beautiful summer love. But after that she got even more down in the dumps than Fading Suns! Poor thing. But there is some promise in the works, a promise of one last, big fling coming up. Possibly even something beyond it.

[La Maupin]

Star Wars (the original and still the best) was my first. My cousin, actually, introduced me to her. She was quick-witted, brilliant, sexy and cool as all get out (though sometimes she wore the WEIRDEST hairstyles!). But because I was young and a fool, I broke up with her and went out with Robotech.

Robotech was cuter and seemed more sophisticated at the time, but she turned out to be just plain neurotic. Against my better judgment, I decided to go out with her younger sister, Rifts, who ate up half of my high school years and really gave me nothing in return.

I met Mekton Zeta through a mutual friend in 1995 and we've been going out ever since. She's really everything I've ever wanted - as quick-witted and brilliant as Star Wars, but even easier to talk to and the sex is incredible. I've even had a few nights with her twin sister, Cyberpunk. But it's an open relationship - she doesn't seem to mind that I sleep with D&D almost as much as with her.

Speaking of D&D... a lot of guys either don't understand her or just plain don't like her, but she's a sweet girl once you get close to her, and you can really do some twisted, kinky things with her if you set your mind to it.

For a couple of years, BESM has been trying to catch my eye, but every time I try to get close to her, I come away with the impression that everything I could do with her, I could do just as easily with Mekton Z.

[Criquefreak]

Hmm, RPGs compared as girlfriends... I prefer more to think of them as pets.
D&D: that long time friend that shows up from time to time but really lives elsewhere and only comes by for the occassional attention and treats.
Shadowrun: probably the easiest one to understand but is way too obsessed with details (self-grooming) to really care whether you give them any attention or not.
Exalted: the hyper-active one that seems to work on itself whether you pay attention to it or not and often you feel that adding tranquilizers to its food will give you a good night's rest.
Mage: the mysterious one that everyone will argue over for hours on end meaning that you get nothing done that night.
BESM: it's cute, it's adaptable, by the gods, it's capable of actually similating any of the others with astonishing grace, but in the end it scares people off sometimes or gets ignored because others already have their favorites.

[four willows]

Originally posted by Elizabeth McCoy
Nobilis is just, like, this totally delicious bishonen and I'm sure we'd have such fun together...

So going in the sigfile.

From the day I met D&D, I didn't like her... she couldn't open her mouth without a contradiction coming out, and when she got a little older, she started being really fond of telling me not to do things.

Shadowrun lied to me... she bore this mantle of cool, but underneath the straps and piercings and the somewhat outmoded, but still interesting tattoos, she was D&D's confusing sister, who never knew what she wanted and when she did she didn't want to tell me.

Mage was this totally awesome, creative girl who I used to love, before I met Exalted, who is like Mage but dresses better and speaks inner-city slang in five languages. I ran into Mage the other night at a Renfaire and we had a blast, though.

Nobilis lives just down the road and she is beautiful and amazing to talk to, but my friends all warn me off of her. "Have you seen her do kung fu? Piss her off, she'll smack you into next Tuesday."

[TheFan]

When I first became interested, I admired Storyteller from a far. I wrote her letters, bought everything she told me, and in general pined for her.

Then, I met D&D. She was an okay settle. She wasn't quite my dream girl, but she was popular, and all my friends loved her. Me and her went steady for quite a while.

Then, I met Exalted, and fell in love. She was Storyteller's younger sister, and everything that I'd liked in Storyteller, only better. Flashier, hipper, and best of all she just LOOOVED anime! We were a perfect match.

Or so I thought.

I took her to a party with a bunch of friends, and it was a disaster. She got drunk, said some things, kissed some people, a fight was started, and soon the whole thing erupted into a huge brawl. Some of my friends still aren't speaking to me, although some of them apparently like her more than me now and want us to get back together just so they can spend time with her!

Oy vey.

Well, last year while I was still seeing Exalted I had a little fling with this girl named d20 Modern. It must be a family thing with me, because she's D&D's younger sister too. I picked back up with her while on the rebound from Exalted, and we're seeing each other regularly. However, my friends shun her and don't want anything to do with her, so I've been having to hang out with her friends lately. Man, that's a strange bunch.

[La Maupin]

There Is No Spoon is the girl who drops her clothes the second the door closes and whispers dirty nothings in your ear until you toss her in bed and have the most raucous, messy, uncoordinated, but incredibly, deeply satisfying sex in your life.

[Evan Waters]

Recently ran into an old flame called LACE & STEEL. We never really broke up, I just lost touch with her during a move- never thought I'd see her again. She's still as fun as ever- knows all sorts of games with swords and cards.

[Eric Tolle]

Originally posted by Evan Waters
Recently ran into an old flame called LACE & STEEL. We never really broke up, I just lost touch with her during a move- never thought I'd see her again. She's still as fun as ever- knows all sorts of games with swords and cards.

*sigh* I wish I could really contribute to this thread, but I have Morrowind. Morrowind is the girlfriend who EVERY SINGLE NIGHT grabs you the minute you walk in the door, drags you into the bedroom, and six hours later you realize dinner hasn't been made, the cat hasn't been fed, and your back hurts.

It's exhausting. But I can manage it. I will get something usefull done. Soon. Real soon.

[Dylan Horrocks]

D&D came back into my life when I'd been single for way too long - and in a fit of nostalgia I started going with her again. But all along I couldn't shake that old uneasy feeling... Of course, she'd grown up since last time and knew how to talk the talk and all that, but I should have known there was trouble when she insisted on having our first date at McDonalds...

Then I started to notice her younger sister d20. Or OGL. I can never quite work out if they're twins or just one girl... While I was stuck in a demanding, expensive, argumentative relationship with D&D, d20 seemed so much fresher and more lively - into cooler music and stuff. But it was hard to be sure; sometimes she'd turn up looking gorgeous, wearing light summer dresses and grinning that cute fun-loving smile... Other times I'd see her in a dirty old bathrobe and tracksuit, slumped in front of the TV with a fag in her mouth - just looking godawful.

Of course, I was always checking out other women on the street - all kinds took my fancy. And I started thinking about all those very different women I'd dated or had relationships with in-between my first adolescent fling with a much younger D&D and now.

But the thing is I feel so comfortable with someone I already know so well... Lately d20 and me have been spending a lot of time hanging out - and we've been talking about running away together; just the two of us. We're both wanting to reinvent ourselves - start living a simpler, more natural lifestyle. I think maybe she's someone I can really settle down with once and for all. I've been fantasizing about all the kids we could have together...

Of course, she'll have to lose some weight and quit eating all that awful junkfood - and I really wish she'd grow up a little and take more of an interest in the stuff I'm into... My friends keep looking at me like I'm crazy, warning me she'll never change. But they just don't see the potential in her that I do... What do they know?!

[kitface]

Unisystem is the girl with the tiny build who's four years younger, fairly bright, and in clingy undying love with you. She's not all that interesting personality-wise, but she's okay looking and she can pull out these puppy-dog eyes that you can't really say no to. She gets kinky in bed, but in sort of a half-hearted "if I do this will you like me?" sort of way. She also likes to wear costumes a lot, which at first was pretty neat, but now you can't tell if she's doing it to impress you or she really does have some kind of fetish.

The relationship drags on, and you consider ending it. One morning you wake up to see her passed out exhausted in a pink chiffon dress, handcuffed to the bed (neither of which you requested), and you just feel so sorry for her that you consider popping the question.

[Robert A. Rodger]

(Thanks for resurrecting this thread! I loved it when it first came up, but never contributed)

D&D was my brother’s girlfriend. He let me hang out with them sometime. When he hit highschool he dumped her. So, we fooled around a lot in junior high, but eventually I got bored with her. A friend of mine was seeing Champions, who ended up introducing me to GURPS. We fell in love. She was so sensible and smart. And as far as I was concerned, she could do anything. Some people didn’t think she was dramatic enough, but I like a down-to-earth girl, myself. Sure, she had her little foibles, but who am I to talk. I had a long affair with her, but we broke up when I moved. We still keep in touch, and if ever the time is right I’d like to think we can get back together.

Star Wars was a fun time, a lot of laughs. It was nothing serious, but a hell of a ride. Sometimes she got to be a handful, if you know what I mean, but even when things were at their most bizarre, you could just wink at her and keep it moving.

Another friend introduced me to Ars Magica. I met her briefly in college, said hello, but that was about it. Well, my friend set us up, and it was okay. She was interesting, not like most of the other girls. Certainly unique in her way. But I could never really figure out what she was going on about. She was disjointed and disorganized and you never knew which mood she was in. And god forbid you wanted her to find something! Anyhow, we started going out, and while I haven’t been thrilled with the relationship, it’s the longest one I’ve been in a while. Next thing you know, we’re living together out of inertia more than anything else. All my friends like her, you see. And she is a damned sight smarter than so many of the other girls I’ve run across. But to be honest, my eye wanders a bit. I keep thinking about flirting with that Exalted chick, but she’s so big and bold... I think she might be too much for me. And GURPS keeps calling me on the phone. She’s getting in to some real hard sci-fi stuff and is just so damned interesting to me. But we just can never seem to hook up. And Ars is still living with me. She’s been hinting about getting her act together, she just needs a bit more time and she’s going to pull all together, but this is the fourth time she’s made that promise.

I have a couple young daughters of my own, now: Karmic (http://www.arrogantgames.com/karmic/karmic_intro.htm) and Essential Spectra (http://www.arrogantgames.com/spectra/index.html). They’re young, still toddling around. But looking at them, I’m so proud that they’re mine, you know. They’re nothing like one another. Karmic is so serious and detailed oriented, while Spectra is flighty and (I fear) a little loose. I’m still the protective father, but I know that someday, they’ll be heartbreakers themselves.

[Garris]

It all started with D&D/AD&D for me. I know, a threesome first time out and I was still in grade 5. But we were introduced by two of my oldest friends. Hell, we had known each-other for 2/3 of my life. And she was the greatest thing in the world. My parents got really worried, but came to accept my (perfectly healthy) obsession after I had to move away. But then I had to move and she wasn't about to come with me.

I desperately threw myself at Magic: The Gathering in my boken-hearted state (well, I had just lost my first love, and by no choice of our own) and it went like this for 4 years. All my friends were with magic, too, and just about everyone I hated on the side. But at least it was sex, if clumsy, wasteful, expensive sex with the biggest whore ever.

I met Vampire, though, and we had a nice chat. She seemed a little odd at first, but her modern, free-wheeling love for some of the most popular things in my age-group captured my interest. I even got around to figuring out what sort of places she hung out, before she moved away. She was really nice though, and referred me to a lot of her girlfriends and sisters and, as it turns out, she was in touch with D&D!

Well, D&D and I had our reunion, but after a few half-hearted makeout sessions, we learned that we weren't right for each-other. But it was closure, at least.

Rifts came into my life like a storm! She was fast, she had all manner of ways to deal with all manner of things, and she was willing to let me get away with all kinds of kinky shit. But it didn't take me very long to realize something. She was ALWAYS in charge. And she was a total schizo. She could hardly ever tell from moment to moment what she thought or believed in, and often she would get very angry at past statements of her own. I tried to get her to start thinking a bit more before she opened her mouth and embarassed me and everyone else who had to listen, but it wasn't meant to be. We still have good sex, but I don't think I'll ever love her. Hell, most days I'm not even certain that I like her. Her sisters I have a similar relationship with, they all have such great ideas, but they're just too incoherent most of the times. Though it's always fun to dress more stable girls up in their shiny clothes.

World of Darkness... Well I tried. I really did. But she just kept ANGSTING. She was a thousand times more stable than the Palladium sisters, but she seemed to hate it so much, and would go off on maddening tangents every time I tried to get close to her. I think we can still make it work, and give it a shot every now and again, but it's never turned out right just yet. Not sure what my chances are, though. I hear she's dying of something or other.

Teenagers From Outerspace, now there was a pretty, funny, and imaginative girl. She was slim as any model and she said quite plainly that she wanted sex any way I could give it, as long as it didn't get boring. And she was telling the truth. But then I met BESM. And...Maybe I'm not as wild as I used to think I was, but I dropped TFOS for her because I could rely on her to help me out if things started to go south, whereas all TFOS ever did when such happened was yell at me for not being able to deal with it myself... Still, I'd probably get back together with her given half a chance.

Alternity and I had a really short-lived, unfortunate relationship. It involved us both getting piss-drunk, then waking up next to each-other in the morning. We haven't spoken since, and I can't help but feel it could've been much more if only we'd taken our time.

Shadowrun. She was just so high and mighty and COOL. She was everything I wanted in a girl. We had so damn much fun just fooling around and gunning down innocents left right and in any other direction. Hell, we still do every now and again. But we can't seem to agree on a few things. She seems to want ME to do all the work in the relationship, because she says she's done enough just being who she is. It makes our visits short-lived, but every time they come around we really enjoy ourselves.

D&D3E... She's a lot like her older sisters. In fact, she even looks suspiciously like them, but she seems to have developed a little extra flair. We've gotten back on friendly terms with each-other, even though she's ALMOST as random as ever. It's taking a bit of work, but if I can get her to meet some of my newer flings, maybe she'll get the idea of what I like in a relationship. She looks more willing to try than ever. Only time (and summer) will tell.

Witchcraft, the only face of Unisystem I've ever known, was deliciously beautiful. She was plain spoken and managed to have a very fine sense of style. But we generally hang out in different circles now. Whenever she comes around I'm willing to take her to a movie, or just spend some time flirting. Nothing serious yet. I do hope something comes of it, though.

Actually, a year and a half ago Vampire called me again. She told me that her second-cousin Exalted was going to be visiting my city soon, and that I'd absolutely love meeting her. How right she was. Exalted and I seemed to share every single interest with each-other. Our personalities mesh perfectly and we have similar hopes and dreams. She's pure delight to spend my time with and there's seldom an hour that goes by without my remembering how much better a similar hour was that I spend with her. I've really gotten into this. We've gone to third base, and it's not long 'til we go a bit further. She's a jealous lover though. She wants to take all my time, and is clever enough to know how to go about it such that the other girls KNOW I'm taken. We recently had a short conversation, but a lot was said. If we wanted our relationship to go further, we'd have to be honest with each-other. She told me about everyone she's been with and is with. She told me all manner of thing. I was worried, but she told me that hardly meant she loved me less. She loved me MORE for having known so many other ways to love and be loved. And...I told her about Nobilis. After having her relationships with other people out of her, she could hardly fault me.

Oh and how wonderful Nobilis is! Every single thing about her drips class and she's at once funnier and more serious than anyone fitting either of those descriptions has been at one time before. She can be grim and foreboding, bright and hopeful... And how we've talked. We spent a full week secluded from the world, just getting to know each-other. She even gave me some insights into Exalted and how I could turn OUR relationship, which to be fair hadn't gone further than talking, to the advantage of my relationship with Exalted. I haven't seen much of her in the past few weeks, but she was right about everything and I know that when she comes back from her vacation everything will go well. Ahh Nobilis. I could wait forever to see her again, because the joy of our next meeting will be all the sweeter for the agony of our time apart.

I'm in love with two women...I think I'll have to resort to polygamy, because I'd die if I had to ever give one up.

I've dated a lot of women, and I mean A LOT (ah, if only this weren't really about games :-)). But I've only ever gone all the way with a few.
My friends introduced my to AD&D back in the early '80s, when she was pretty much the only girl in town. We went on a couple of dates, but I was young and naive, and she just seemed way too sophisticated for me. Then I met her little sister, Basic. The two of us had a great time together and for a while, I thought she was all I would ever want.
Around the same time though, another friend on the other side of town introduced me to EPT (Short for Empire of the Petal Throne). What can I say? This girl was lively, mysterious, fun, with a foreign quality to her that intrigued me and hinted of undreamt-of possibilities. I slept with EPT a couple of times, but always had a nagging feeling that I wasn't living up to her expectations. Then I discovered that she had been Basic D&D all along, just pretending to be EPT. I stopped seeing Basic, having grown a little more and realised that she would never be anything more than the uncomplicated young girl I'd first met, but was left with a life-long desire to meet the REAL EPT.
By this time, I was old enough to appreciate the greater complexity of AD&D, and we had a lot of fun, but it was never anything really serious, and when Classic Traveller moved into town, I dated them both for a while. Ah, good times. I talked about getting into a serious relationship with both of them, and they were both willing, but I don't recall sleeping with either of them (though there may have been some heavy petting).
A few years later, around the time I finished high school, a whole bunch of pretty new women moved into town, and I think I dated all of them. Gamma World, LRS, Bushido, C&S, T:2300, Champions. I went steady with both C&S and Champions for a while, but never took the time to really get to know them. Another woman showed up, claiming to be the real EPT, and at first she was everything I'd dreamed of; the depth to her character, the complexity of her ideas, it was all good. I moved in with her for a while, and we had some great sex for a short while, but then I discovered that her personality only went down so far, then nothing. She was unfinished, incomplete. So we broke up and I went back to casually dating all the other women I'd been going out with, even seeing AD&D and Basic occasionally, just for old times sake. probably my most serious relationship in that time was with the daughter that a friend of mine had had with Basic, name of Sorrow Hill. She was a lot like her mother, but she wasn't so tied down about things like rules and dice. She was so uninhibited, she never even wore levels. A very refreshing and exciting young woman, but she was my friend's daughter, so it could never go beyond dating.
This is getting kind of long, so I'll fast forward a bit. I met CoC in Australia; a little scary, but very exhilarating. I'd never met a woman quite like her before. In England, I hooked up briefly with Sorrow Hill again, had a BLAST with Paranoia, and shacked up with Runequest for a while. I left her behind when I moved to Canada, had a very interesting and eye-opening (albeit platonic)relationship with both Mage and Vampire for a while, before running into Runequest again in America (wearing a viking outfit of all things; in England she'd been more into the Japanese lifestyle) and settled down with her for about a year. Some good sex, but nothing earth-shattering. I also flirted with AD&D briefly; she'd met an American friend of mine and she seemed quite a bit more intellectual and interesting under his influence.
Then everything changed. That same friend introduced me to this gorgeous woman at a fancy-dress party. She was done up as a super-hero and her name was GURPS. We hit it off immediately and we had a lot of fun together, though for the longest time I really only knew her as "that super-hero woman". She was interesting, knowledgeable, saw a lot of things the same way I did. Unfortunately, I had to move back to Canada and I hadn't taken her number, so I didn't know how to contact her. Back in Canada, friends re-introduced me to CoC, and even AD&D. AD&D had a new look by then (2nd Ed.), in fact she may have had it for a while. I didn't see much difference. Still, she and CoC were familiar, and we hung out a lot, had some fun. I just couldn't see developing anything lasting with either of them. I also met this Shadowrun chick around that time. She was fun, but ultimately just a way to pass the time.
After a few years of this, I was feeling ready to get back into a serious relationship again. EPT showed up again, a little less complex, but a more complete person. We tried sleeping together for a while, but I kept wanting to rekindle some of the complexity she used to have, which just didn't sit well with who she had become, so we broke up. I still think about her sometimes, and we talk on the phone, but I don't think she'll ever match the ideal image of her that I developed as a boy. Soon after that, Runequest moved back in, with her kinky viking outfit that I liked so much. We started out having some pretty good sex, but she never wanted to do anything I suggested, and the way she dealt with the world sometimes just seemed too unrealistic for me to deal with, so we were arguing a lot when suddenly GURPS showed up in Toronto, and she even had a viking outfit of her own. Needless to say, Runequest was out of my apartment so quick, the door didn't even hit her in the arse. GURPS moved right in and we had some of the greatest sex I've ever had (viking style), for a short sweet time, before she had to go out of town on business. I miss her, I can't wait for her to get back, and I've collected almost all of her writings. Turns out she recently bought herself some Traveller-style outfits that I get hot just thinking about. In the meantime, I'm seeing AD&D once a week. Nothing serious (I mean, c'mon, I'm going to friggin' MARRY GURPS when she gets back), just a pizza and coke and hanging out for fun. I think I only see her because I've known her so long, and sometimes I have to leave early, just because her outlook on life is so freakin' whacked.
So there you go. I'm hanging out with AD&D just for fun (honestly, I think she just gets these makeovers for the hell of it now), dreaming of when GURPS will be back in my life and planning what our daughter's going to look like (her parents would probably freak if they knew I'm thinking of having a kid with her).
And that's about as far as I can take this tortuous (but fun) metaphor without breaking down.

[Cedric de Dodger]

Oh Classic Trav my first stroll in to the Green Bay Common room and sit down next to my new Friend Jonathan and he introduces me to this really Cool chick called Traveller. Like all firsts it fells a bit awkward but then as time goes on it becomes more natural and then a bad thing is done two timing D&D comes into my life oh the Confusion then all becomes clear there is “Chivalry and Sorcery” before me.

The flirtation is like well everything is there man no detail is to small every need is taken care of wow. But then I notice that it takes so much of my time there is very little left for my friends and things get a bit Strained in. In the ed it gets broken off

Life for a while is empty and I search in Vain for that special something to full the void. And my old dearest Trav comes back into my life and I have a good time again old Friends also start turning up again. All is well.

A late start at Uni introduces me to the Greatest love in my life up till now Shadowrun
She has it all the for me and the rules are simple to live with just keep away from the “Panther Assault Cannon carrying Vampire 5thlevel Initiate Mage” and all is well “Oh then again that Aztec major Mojo “AHHHHHhhhh.. run away .with sweety palms and a deap breath he walks away.

I have recovered from that intense time and with old Friends support I get my head screwed and straight again. A nice light casual flings with Mage and Trav TNE and cruise through life.

Oh but wait here come “Ars Majica “and Confusion returns as a friend introduce this new love but the names they do change she becomes “M H R”* then “Window” Oh the bless with this Confusion this new girls has introduced me to a new Drug called “Religious Bless and Conflict“**

Through all this I am thinking of going back to my first flame Trav


*M H R= Mathew’s House Rules
**My Character is a Greek Orthodox Priest and Mage the rest of the Party is Mostly Pagan 6th Century Byzantine Empire

[Rick]

Hero's nice, she'll let you do anything you want to her, you just have to know how to ask.