You Might Be a Gamer If

...loosing your dice bag would be a serious financial blow.

...you have more entertaining "No-shit,-there-I-was-in-a-game" stories than you do anecdotes about your family.

...you talk about your characters as if they are real people.

...you alternate between referring to your characters in the first and the third person.

... and none of your friends gets confused.

...you've ever spent a significant fraction of your life modifying game rules that you didn't like... and, as soon as the system worked to your satisfaction, discarded it.

...when someone says "The blue books," you don't automatically picture the kind that they give you during a college final exam.

...you've ever seen the old AD&D tv series.

...you hang out with people you actively dislike because they give good role- play.

...you've ever gotten into a screaming match over something that happened in a game... (You are so dead! I am not dead!)

...you've ever neglected to buy the new edition of your favourite game because you already have three.

...you have more than one photocopied bootleg of a gaming text.

...you have a PhD in manipulating point systems to the best effect, even though you failed high school geometry.

..you can consume your body weight in junk food in one gaming session.

...you own your own weight in gaming books.

...the owners of local hobby stores take your checks without ID because they know where you live.

...you consider the demise of "What's New With Phil & Dixie" a blow to great literature.

...you consider the 20th century a state of mind.

...you've ever designed your own character sheets.

...you've ever tried to explain gaming to a school counselor, parent, or other PW/OC (Person With/Out Clue).

...you've played Talisman more than once.

...your AC is so low that even you can't hit yourself.

... you bring your dicebag even to diceless roleplaying events.

...you've ever discovered, after gaming with your significant other, that you like their character better than you do them.

...you've ceased responding to your birth name.

...you spend more money on dice than on food.

...you sometimes forget what century this is.

...your first response to any frustrating situation is, "I bash it with my axe."

...you know a lot of gaming jokes that used to be funny once.

...your friend(s) who does not game feels very left out of all of your conversations.

...you have more gaming books than the local hobby store.

...you've discovered that spare dice make good beanbag filler.

...you knew that that last question was a ringer: who has more dice than they can use?

...you've been gaming for more than half of your life.

...you still laugh when someone says "Hey, Dave, I think the barbarian in the corner wants another beer."

...you tend to play characters as different from you in race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and what have you as possible, just to confuse your friends.

...you've been known to have in-depth conversations about the relative merits of Champions, V&V, Marvel, and DC heroes... ignoring the fact that all superhero systems are intrinsically sucky.

...you like one of the above systems enough that you yelped when I called them all, "sucky."

...you've thought of four or five additions to this list.

...you've ever tried to discover the strengths and weaknesses of a haemophiliac werewolf.

...someone is attempting to explain the floorplan of a building to you and you immediately start thinking in terms of 10X10 squares.

...you're still reading this list.

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