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Zimeros
Learned Scribe
Brazil
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 Posted - 12 Aug 2004 : 18:31:20
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To think a little...
You really are who needs D&D when:
1) You have more books of D&D than study books.
2) You be furious when anybody thinks "elves" are the friends of Santa Claus.
3) Another people think you're speaking another language.
4) You seeing a movie, and think: this guy should be 20 levels.
5) When you see "Lord of Rings"(or another fantasy movie) you ask yourself about what feat or skill the characters are using in each moment.
6) You begins to use D&D rules to explain real life actions (It smells like a died animal, I need to do a fort test, with difficult 15 or I'll down by 1d4 or 1d6 turns).
7) You read more books of D&D than another book or magazine.
8) You tough about what would be your class (your friend’s classes), your attributes, feats, skill and alignment in real life. Of course that you tried to play with it.
9) You always are with your "player’s handbook" in your work or school.
10) You say things like: Gloria's computer, Vecna Cell., to say about unnamed objects.
11) The people that really know you call you using your characters' name, in stores and bars... ...And you answer them.
12) You try to take money with D&D.
13) When you have more dices than friends.
14) When D&D is the best idea for Friday night.
15) When D&D is the best idea for Saturday afternoon.
16) When little conversations change to big conversations about D&D 3, D&D 3,5, and AD&D, and what is wrong about them.
17) When it is raining you think your plane is changing to elemental plane of water.
18) You change "It is like the hell" to "It is like the 9th hell"
19) You don't understand why the people are sad when anybody dies, you believe he is with his god now.
20) You be furious when the people don't see differences a demon and in a devil.
21) When you see Matrix, you think "Neo should have +30 in reflex save".
22) You believe that to life, must to have D&D.
24) Your friend fights with you because you can't stop to say about D&D.
25) The only friend that talks with you is that you find in the last D&D event.
26) The first time that you read about Hercules, Zeus, Isis, was reading Deities and Demigods.
27) You try to do the statistics of characters of History, like Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolph Hitler, Lincon, Stalin, etc.
28) A member of your family dies and you can't go to graveyard, because today you'll play D&D.
29) You stop to do other interesting things to play D&D.
30) You rule dices when you aren't playing.
31) You be hungry to get money to buy the latest new of D&D.
32) You will give to your san a name of someone very important, like Raistlin, Elminster, Storm, or perhaps Vecna).
33) In the hallowen you was your character, saying: "I'm Lord Aaron Goldsoul, behind bad creatures, the candy is mine!" with a plastic sword in your hands.
34) You usually see the wrong of publication of the books.
35) Your dream is find proves of existence of Dragons.
36) You want to go to a university of D&D tactics.
37) You fight with your wife/husband because you must to play D&D (You can be with the house, and the children but the D&D books are mine!)
38) You hurt who says you're cheater in the game.
39) You can say: "my name is Eliah Draug'Nerian, Half-elf, lycanthrope, and nature sorcerers, very serious".
40) When anybody says: "Legolas is a cheater! Is he 50th level?"
And you understand and answer: "And what feat did he use?"
41) You want to be a lycanthrope.
42) You be furious when the people think there's only the werewolf, and don't know another types of lycanthropes.
43) You be sad because the world of Lord of Rings has few magic, and you want to see Gandalf using fireballs, not light only.
44) You think that in some moments of your life the magic would be good.
45) You use 1d4 or 1d6 to answer your test in the school.
46) You think your pet is your familiar.
47) You know exactly your race, class and level, if you were a D&D character.
48) You save your campaign in VHS, and promise that some day you’ll do a movie, or write a letter with it.
49) When you have nothing to do, you’re thinking new weapons/armors/magics/feats/classes for your next character.
50) You know more about the culture of your favorite race than your culture.
51) You have a picture of your favorite god in your body, and it is completely visible.
52) You have used one colored talisman saying that it was the fireballs amulet.
53) Your habits aren’t only in your roleplaygame, you have it also, playing Pool of Radiance, Baldur’s gate I & II, Temple of Elemental Evil, etc., and you don’t play anything that doesn’t use D20 system.
54) When you hurt yourself you go to the local church or temple, looking for clerics, not local hospital as you should.
55) You are thinking how many mages must to use fireball to have the same effect of an atomic bomb.
56) The people think that is easiest ask something about rules for you than look it in the books.
57) And you really can help than, because you know even the wrongs of the books.
58) You try to find samples of everything your games.
59) You grew up reading D&D books every single night.
60) In your dreams you’re playing (been the DM) or fighting with monsters.
61) You have all walls of your bedroom with posters about D&D.
62) You use one week thinking about the next song of your bard.
63) When you don’t know the answer of your test you use the magic augury.
64) You describe the people by their alignment.
65) When you win a real armor you don’t use it, because you think you’re a mage.
66) When you see Lord of Rings, The Return of King, you think “ Legolas has dexterity 30, Aragorn has the feat leadership and Frodo fall his will save in the last part”
67) When the people say that you’re like an elf, you think it is great.
68) When the people say that you’re like an elf, you be furious, because you like the dwarves.
69) When you’re walking in the downtown you’re alert to use your opportunity attack in the first guy that tries to catch your money.
70) Dammed!!! That guy had a success in his test.
71) When you wake up early you think “ …will test… …difficult 25… …I had 23… …Now I’ll sleep more 2d6 minutes…”
72) You lost your time thinking about one sample for each one of the nine alignments.
73) You walk in the school you have a d20 in your hands to find other players.
74) When you find your friends (That you know ages ago) you call them by their characters’ names because you forgot their real names.
75) You walk in the mart looking for the blacksmith.
76) You call the bars, taverns.
77) You call the hotels, taverns with rooms.
78) You have a lot of tables in your house to play with different size groups.
79) You travel more than 50 Km (30 miles) to go to a D&D event or just to play.
80) When you do the secure of your car, and you know the price you do a test of bargain.
81) You see the documentaries only to find ideas for your next adventure.
82) You create this type of thing.
I just translated it.
Original (in Portuguese) is from Arkhan posted by Amion Hunter in http://www.frbrasil.brtdata.com.br/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1318
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