by Fugli

Humor for Gamers?

The definition of the word 'gamer' seems to change with each decade. When I look it up on internet search engines, I tend to find a lot of video game sites. The word 'gaming' likewise leaves me dry with a flood of online casinos. Plain and simple, a gamer is a person who likes to play games. Traditionally thses have been board, card, pencil and paper, and role playing games (rpgs), but the definition expands to encompas all game genres.

Most internet gaming humor that I have stumbled across is of the video game variety. While I do not begrudge them their forum, most of it leaves me a little cold. I am obviously not in the know when it comes to that genre. I prefer humor in a more role playing game genre, and so I have gleaned a few treasures and posted them here.

Most of these files have been grabbed from various sources, and somewhere along the way credits have been stripped off of them. If I have a source or by line in my files, I have posted them as well. Otherwise, I don't know who or where they came from. If you don't get these jokes... chalk it up to rpg ignorance, and get on with your life.

1. You might be a gamer if...
2. Top Ten Lists
   • Top Ten Things Your Berserker Would Never Say
   • Top Ten Signs You Pissed Off the Villagers
   • Top Ten Spells That Never Made It
   • op Ten Signs You Play Too Much AD&D
   • Top Ten Signs Your DM is Too Easy
   • Top Ten Signs Your DM is Too Hard
   • Top ten signs your party is in deep trouble
   • Top ten best ways to answer, "Isn't roleplaying evil?"
   • The Top Ten Ways to Tell if You are a Lich
   • Top Ten Spells Not Worth Memorizing
   • Top ten new character classes for AD&D
   • Top ten list: stuff overheard at a local game
   • Top ten list: things you will never hear at a game of AD&D
   • Top ten most worthless spells
3. Types of Game Masters
4. Shit Happens!
5. Types of Role Players
   • Role Player Classes
   • Stereotypical Player Types
6. It was a dark and stormy night.
7. Some Last Words
8. Some Amusing Anecdotes
   • The Head of Vecna
   • The Gazebo
9. Plain Gags
   • Garou Light Bulb Jokes!
   • Mage Jokes
10. RPG Clichés
11. I Gotta Game: an RPGA interactive KoDT script.
12. The Five Gamers: Real Men, Thespians, Brains, Loonies, & Munchkins
13. Murphy's Rules
14. Munchkin Gamers
    • Munchkin Test
    • The Munchking
15. Medieval Pick Up Lines
16. Raven's Nunsuch: An interactive play.
17. How I learned to Role Play with Call of C'thulhu

There are many other sources of rpg humor. My favorites are:

Knights of the Dinner Table
Dork Tower
The Officual Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide
Issendai no Su
Gamer Jargon