Your Geekiest Endeavor

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  1. wobbler

    wobbler Well-Known Member

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    I can do this to!

    I play magic seriously, (qualified to Swedish Mastership) does that count as more or less geeky?

    I collect and read books.
    I am one of those LARP people, even though in Sweden, LARP is not a failure.
     
  2. General Mandible

    General Mandible New Member

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    I don't think I did anything really geeky. I once made a chessboard in paper during class, does that count?
     
  3. TheDavisChanger

    TheDavisChanger Well-Known Member

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    No, that's just boring.

    If you're a member of an online community centered around a computer RPG, then I think we can pretty much assume you have played a tabletop RPG, miniatures game, or Magic: The Gathering. These endeavors scarcely bare mentioning.
     
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    Xiao_Caity New Member

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    I once wrote a class for D&D 3.5 based on the Alchemists from Atelier Iris 1+2. I lost it in a computer crash.

    ...I should totally write it up again. It was awesome.
     
  5. Archmage Orintil

    Archmage Orintil New Member

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    I wrote up an epic level progression for the Gnome Artificer prestige class for the Player's Guide to Faerun. I also updated the original one to 3.5. I was then summarily informed that Wizards doesn't accept unsolicited material. They didn't even have the audicity to steal any of my ideas. After 4e Realms came out and I discovered the obliteration of Lantan, a little piece died and I've yet to return to p&p gaming.
    I'm not sure if it's a sign of geekdom or of packrattyness, but our appartment has more bookshelves than walls, and they're still not enough for all the crap. The workroom/computer room contains enough spare parts for computers and other unknown things to build a space shuttle, including the ceramic tiling, and is refered to as "the sanctum".
     
  6. Minuos

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    That counts for a lot of my own time as well.
    Same with the mentions of Baldur's Gate and Might and Magic 7, which I've completed with and without cheats.

    These don't really fit, but they're the only things I can actively and specifically recall.
    I maxed everyone's stats in FFVII and FFX.
    I spent an hour defeating Omega Weapon in FFVIII, and recorded it.
    I got nearly all my RuneScape melee stats to 99, and haven't quit yet.
    I've started more Arcanum characters than I can count, and only completed it once.
    I have enough experience to say when science fiction sucks and doesn't.
    I'm also 58,000 words into writing a fantasy novel wherein the main character is practically me. He dies.
     
  7. Arthgon

    Arthgon Well-Known Member

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    I am still working on my Campaign that's called Earthly Apocalypse for the 3.5 and Modern.

    I have a lot of RPG's books from 3.5 to MERP. (I have a First Edition of LORDS of Middle-earth Vol III: Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs & Trolls.)

    I am working on my novels. Some will be based on Earthly Apocalypse.

    A friend of mine asked me to make 3.5 RPG characters of him and my friends (Including me.). So I am working on that as well.
     
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    I only had a few figures, but not to paint. I tried to get into Magic, but I didn't like it. I only really like computer RPG's.
     
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    Arthgon Well-Known Member

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    I never played Magic, and miniatures game, but I have played these tabletop RPG's: MERP, D&D, D20 Modern, and CoC.
     
  10. JustaFishInaJar

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    I know playing Magic: The Gathering is basic geekyness, but I taught a group of Marines to play Magic and got them into it. And not the already geeky Marines, but the super jock Marines who would rather die then watch anime, read comics, or some other third thing.
     
  11. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    This is the key to understanding Minuos.
     
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    Alternatively, you can buy me a bottle of whiskey and ask me question after question. I'll answer with shameless honesty. The whiskey is merely to make me feel like speaking to you.

    Yuki: I don't get it.
     
  14. No! Naughty dog!

    No! Naughty dog! New Member

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    Thought so, I only play it because one of my friends takes it soooooo seriously and it is very funny every time he gets told
     
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    I assume my drunken male brain is being victimised. Key word: Drunken.
     
  18. No! Naughty dog!

    No! Naughty dog! New Member

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    It's a simple game with little point other than letting people lose the game
     
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    Apparently, I have to drink lots of water. My cognition is failing me. Yet my typing exceeds necessity, curiously.
     
  20. rroyo

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    My geekiest endeavor: Learning how to modify a video game! :lol:
     
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