How Geeky Can You Get? This Geeky!

When D&D geekdom intersects with a tendency to craft, what do you get?

Homemade D&D-related t-shirts.

A few years back I started playing D&D with a discipline and ferocity usually reserved for my ridiculous reading habit. I had recently broken up with a long-term jerk of a boyfriend who was not into D&D in any way, shape or form. After reconnecting with some of my geek harem we got together to start a long-term game. I had just started dating B and found to my surprise that he was at least half-geek. Geek enough to play D&D with me and enjoy it, anyways. I decided then & there that my new litmus test for acceptability among potential boyfriends would be D&D.

But I digress...we got a group together, made up a world, and came up with a rotating-DM scheme to eventually level the characters from 1st to 20th level. This game has gone on since early 2005. There are only a few core players left from that beginning game, but we've had a blast along the way fleshing out our world and having our characters grow.

But back in the beginning, my crafty friend and fellow she-geek K's husband K (don't get lost now) was in our group and she likes to be crafty. We decided hanging out one day that the absolutely coolest thing ever would be for the entire group to have t-shirts that we could each wear when we got together to roll the dice.

Yes, I know...this is a bit nerdly even for twenty-something role players. But once the idea took root in our heads, we just couldn't let go. It all started because my girlfriend K made a joke that people will only get if they are at all familiar with Dungeons and Dragons.

"Guns don't kill people, magic missiles do!"
From there it could only get worse.

We already had some ideas for some other shirts. We needed to make a shirt for each person and wanted them to be personalized in some way, but still follow the Magic Missile theme.

Around the time of my inauguration to D&D, there was a video at the end of the videogame Summoner that was a complete spoof on role players. Never let it be said that geeks don't have a sense of humor, or the ability to poke fun at themselves and have a good time. The video is only funny because it's sadly true. Especially the Cheetos and Mountain Dew references, and fighting with the DM, and distractions from players who "aren't there"....well fine, just about everything is true to form. I can't think of a time when I've role-played when Mountain Dew wasn't in the picture. But if you haven't seen the video, and know at least a little about role playing, it should be pretty funny. Plus it will make some of the t-shirts we came up with make more sense.



We ended up stealing a couple of our t-shirt sayings right from this video (sorry creator, but at least you know it was good stuff).

If there's any girls there I wanna DO them!
Roll to see if I'm getting drunk.

I don't want you thinking that we're a bunch of plagarists who don't have a collectively creative bone in their bodies however. We did come up with some of our own. I'm particularily proud of #1 and 4.

1. Wizard of Love in D&D, Sad Virgin in Reality
2. Level 20 Assassin Nerd
3. D&D Geeker and Proud of It!
4. Paladin of Tyranny: Watch Out or I'll Smite You
5. I Don't Know About Your World, but In Mine I'm Queen

Of course, since then I've seen some pretty neat ones I'm jealous of.

Rogues Like to Do It from Behind
Yes, They Are Natural (a picture of two d20's showing 20 side-by-side on a woman's shirt)
+2 Shirt of Invisibility

I think the group needs to bust these shirts out again, for nostalgia's sake.
What's your geeky nostalgia moment?