Nerds/Geeks

[Tim Churchmouse]

Who here would call themselves a nerd or a geek? Doesn't have to be non-Redwall related!
I know I would call myself one!

[Rusvul]

Depends- I usually wouldn't call myself one, but I don't mind the title. I love D&D as well as a lot of computer games.

[Tim Churchmouse]

Thanks for the speedy response! Lol I'm obsessed with TS2014, GoatSim, EuroTruck and Spore meself. Mainly TS though.

[Rusvul]

...Noooo.... Goat Simulator is not a game... It's one or two levels, nonsense mechanics, and a completely broken physics engine... not a game...

I'm not quite sure what you mean by TS, though...

[Tim Churchmouse]

Train sim .
And I know goat sim is the before mentioned but it looked like a heck of random fun!

[Jetthebinturong]

I wouldn't call myself one but I'm pretty sure I am one

[rachel25]

I proudly wear the title of Marvel Nerd. 

[Gonff the Mousethief]

I'm right in the middle of both. Some days I'm more geeky than nerdy, and vice-versa.


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[Rusvul]

I'm right in the middle of both. Some days I'm more geeky than nerdy, and vice-versa.

...The difference is?

[Rainshadow]

  I'm a bit of a geek, I'd say.  I remember a lot of weird, random facts about different TV shows, books, movies, video games, etc.  Honestly I can't think of anything else to say right now, lol.  My sister's watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, so that's really distracting. 

[Izeroth]

 I'm kind of a Minecraft nerd, but I wouldn't consider myself to be that much of one.

[Delthion]

I do not really know what would classify one as a nerd.

[Rusvul]

As I said- I usually fit into this category. I'm currently obsessed with tabletop gaming (Mainly D&D 3.5 and Numenera, though 5e seems pretty interesting. And less tabletop-MMO than 4e, good to see...)

Speaking of which, I convinced my friends to play D&D today. I'm not sure if anyone actually cares, but I'm going to tell the story anyway, because I like it and it's funny and if you don't care you can just ignore me. Hah.

So, we started at second level, with a two-person party. I was a Neutral Evil Fighter/Cleric multiclass (God of roads, I'd taken Travel and Luck as my domains) and my party member was a Paladin- Paladins are morally obliged to kill/subdue anyone who commits an evil act. So strange things happened.

We started in a tavern (duh) and I was drinking peach tea. (Sometimes if your DM is a jerk he'll give you penalties for being drunk, at the very least you have to roleplay differently. Easier to stick to peach tea.) I heard a scrabbling noise from the back room of the tavern, so naturally I drew my main gauche (I had specialized for two-weapon fighting and defense, I was playing a fencer-type character) and rolled an Intimidate check. Barkeep was not impressed with my low roll... So I threatened him again, and he opened the door to the back room. Now, I was curious... I used 'Command' in the general direction of the door- "Approach!" and a lizardman walked towards me. A paladin got up from his table (I had downed his dwarven ale when he wasn't looking, I sort of knew who he was) and moved to assist me. We had a brief fight with the lizardmen, most of them escaped. I knocked one of them out cold, and there was a corpse of a lizardman already in the room from before we had even got there. I skinned the corpse (Pelts are valuable! Usually worth taking the few points in Knowledge: Nature for skinning and having your DM tell you stuff you probably shouldn't know) and took its skin, then I moved over to the unconscious one to skin it as well. I prepared for a coup-de-grace (Stab it in the neck) but the lawful-stupid paladin wouldn't let me... So I murdered and skinned it after he left. I got 100 EXP for it as well!

So a wish necklace, a bunch of money, two pelts, and a really OP crossbow later, we went into an abandoned church to find some alchemy stuff for an enchanter. We go in, bypass a trap, kill a couple mobs... And come upon a Rust Monster. The paladin, fearful of rusting his holy sword, threw it down the hallway and fought a losing battle with his spear and shield (Both nonmetal)

But of course, being evil, I cast a Longstrider spell on myself- Stole his sword, left him to die, ran outside, got on my horse, rode back to town. I sold his sword to a shop, used the money to buy passage via ship to another town.

En route, I was assaulted by the ship's operator (Small ship, just the two of us.) He tried to throw me overboard into a whirlpool. After a brief struggle and a failed 'Command: DIE!' spell, he threw me overboard. I managed to stab the side of the boat with my dagger to keep myself from dying, and hung close to the side of the boat. The ranger captain thought I was dead, but his wolf could smell me and kept growling. I prayed to my deity and cast Fear on the wolf, who yipped and yapped and hit its head into the mast, knocking itself out. Then I climbed back up onto the boat (About a billion reflex saves involved here, lucky thing I have +5 to those, with my spell) and wrestled him down... I used my Light spell on his eyelids, and threw him screaming overboard.

And then my DM wanted to 'take a break' because he was frustrated because I completely derailed any semblance of plot, story, or sanity from his campaign and I felt bad.


And no, I'm not a twisted sadistic individual who leaves paladins to die in old churches (Only for the DM to save them by totally cheap methods that shouldn't be used- 'Your god has mercy on you and kills your opponent, also restoring you to half health!') murders and skins semi-innocent lizardmen for their skin, and generally does really awful stuff. I might enjoy playing a character like that, but I'm not him.

[MeadowR]

I get a little confused about the proper difference between geeks and nerds. I am probably a nerd in some ways, but perhaps not really obviously so?

[Gwen A. Mouse]

Geek geek geek, proudly and for many fandoms!