How do your family and friends feel about your hobby?

My tabletop group is composed of my best friends, so they're cool with it.

My parents are old and have no idea what it is. I once learned that my father mentioned my hobby to a colleague of his, but apparently he mistook it for LARPing. I demanded that he go back to this person I had never met and will never meet and correct his mistake.

My girlfriend tolerates it but deep down I know she hates it. I'm a man of few friends so I don't really talk about it much with anyone else other than the people I play with.

> getting rich should be your hobby

Veeky Forums hobbies ill talk about it to anyone...
/k/ hobbies keep that one on the downlow if for nothing else hearing..."im comming to your house in the apocalypse " gets old and shits expensive

Half my friends know but aren't into tg
Half my friends know and play tg with me
None of my friends especially give a crap either way, so in the end it pretty much just determines who comes along to the occasional games/hobby day.

my family is mostly still mad at me for failing out of uni. I try my best to cut contact as much as possible while still living at home

They're normal adults so they don't care.

When I was in high school, my mom frequently expressed frustration with me spending money on TCGs and video games and anime shit. My dad pointed out that when he was my age, he drank every cent he earned, and that they spent easily twice as much funding my brother's baseball hobby, not including nearly monthly trips for tournaments.

Now neither of them care.

I got my start in highschool DMing for my sisters at our family dinner table. I still run a campaign for them over skype. My father played in highschool and my mum thought it was good I was inviting my friends over. She gave me GURPS 4e for my 17th birthday. Currently in uni, and I make no secret of my hobby. If anyone asks me what I do for fun at a party I tell them about table top roleplaying and they generally think it's really cool. I've had lots of people ask to join campaigns through that. All of my friends know and are either gamers themselves or don't really care.

I used to work at a board game and puzzle store, so it's not exactly a secret.

Also can anyone remind me from what episode the original image comes? Just, like, what else is going on?

I believe it's the episode where Marge becomes a realtor. She starts showing houses to people and one of the houses has it's front fall off, revealing Lenny inside who says "Please don't tell people how I live."

On topic, I'm very open about my hobbies and will tell anybody willing to ask all about them. I've gotten into lengthy (albeit completely one-sided) conversations about it with my coworkers. None of them give even the slightest shit but they're polite enough to at least listen, which I appreciate.

As someone who's had to endure countless conversations about cars or sports over the years, I feel just being a listener is the least you can do for someone who's open about their passions.

My parents met through roleplaying, so we're basically one big happy nerd-ass family.

I love when people are open with their passions. It's adorable when someone completely dorks out about something they love, as long as they're not being condescending or angry or something.

My mom doesn't care, my dad used to do it while he was my age so he doesn't care.

My parents joke that I'm a nerd, but my dad thinks they're kind of cool and my mom likes any creative endeavors. They also pretend that I "force" my normie girlfriend to play my "nerd" games but she is just as interested as I am

Also I'm pretty sure you're right about the Simpsons episode.

Half my friends do it with me, the other half likes listening to the absurd stories we can tell.

My parents have always been cool with it and all my friends are into Tabletop games of some form or another.
My grandfather was actually the one who bought my older brother his first set of AD&D books, while not a gamer himself he was happy to be supportive of his grandkids, and most of my aunts and uncles either don't care or are pretty nerdy themselves so while not regular gamers fully understand what's fun about the hobby and at very least are into board games, and I don't mean Monopoly either.
I've also got at least one cousin into RPGs and most of them play Magic.

I don't hide my hobbies from others if it comes up but I don't gush autisically about it either. If someone thinks something bad about me because of my hobbies that's their problem, and says more about them than me.

After a few months of going down to the "Gaming Club" my mom got suspicious of it because I was vague with my answers.

I was about to head out when she sat me down and asked me if I was gambling.
I looked at her confused and told her I was just playing a few tabletop games.
For money?
No.
Then what are you doing?

Nerd shit.

I'm not sure if she was more disappointed or not.

22 years old. Mom is certain it's satanic. Dad doesn't give a shut and everyone else that matters is playing it with me.

Dad thinks it's funny, but he likes that it gets me socializing, albeit with nerds. Mom thinks it looks fun and wants to try playing, but says it's too expensive.

My father taught me how to play tabletop games as a child.

My father painted historical models and played D&D.

My Dad is fine with it, and my Mom was ecstatic to hear I had a hobby that actually requires human interaction.

Most of my friends enjoy tabletop games and the like also.

I don't need to hide my powerlevel, because most of my friends are even more turbonerd than I.

My friends play with me and my family doesn't mind as long as I keep being a responsible adult.

Parents don't really know or care, friends know and several play just because of me

My current "main" group is just my roommates so we play all the time, I have another group of friends that meet about weekly, and a third group who want to play that game of thrones rpg thing or get back into DnD

If you just own it and aren't a basement dwelling neckbeard you're fine, nobody should be ashamed of the hobby unless you play some shitty system like a fag

My mother is a social escort and part time porn actress, she has seen many co-workers in the industry spiral down into self-destruction with drugs, alcohol or just being so plain hyper sexual their performances did kill them (I do have a phobia towards equines thanks to her explaining me how a co-worker died during the filming of a zoophilia scene).
She does prefer that spend money and time in nerdy things rather get wasted and I even manage to make her give it a try both as a player and GM.

I got into this because of my father and his side of the family

>I do have a phobia towards equines thanks to her explaining me how a co-worker died during the filming of a zoophilia scene

My dad was a giant comic book nerd and trekkie, he's the one who got me into most of my interests but I never really talked to him about rpg stuff. I regret not asking him about it before he died.

Why would I tell them? Do you tell your parents how you shit or how what piece of clothing you put on? Why the fuck do they need to know?

I don't have any friends and my family doesn't give a shit.

Almost all the friends i have I've met through tabletop gaming. My sister also plays with me reguarly, has for years.

My parents know i play games but don't fully understand what they are or have any interest in them. That is pretty standard, though. When i was a kid i once asked my mom what dungeons and dragons was, and she described tje Blackleaf chick tract, apparently believing that was a true story. Probably still all she really knows about the hobby.

I actually haven't spoken to any member of my extended family in like six years, but i doubt they know or care.

My best friends all play table top games or video games anyway. My parents are cool with it although I think they'd rather I didn't so much on it. my brother thinks I'm a nerd but he's the same about sports so who cares? My gf isn't into it but does at least take a mild interest when I tell her about the games I play.

Don't have any friends, father disapproves, mother doesn't care.

My dad is awesome you guys. Pic related, him playing x-wing with me. I take every opportunity to brag on him.

Godamn hit post accidentally. He also played d&d with me and my friends one night and played a paladin.

U wot m8?

My mom thinks I should stop wasting my life away playing games.

Shit bro get a haircut you like fucking lord farquad.. also pretty cool dad

Thats like a 3 year old picture. I was growing my hair out. Ive also lost 50lbs.

I find it interesting that "tabletopping" is primarily passed along by fathers.

Just like how I used to fan-fic 40k and Halo and my spouse would fan-fic bands and Harry Potter. I game and she doesn't.

Its just interesting how the brain is so hardwired for things.

Link to your mom's scenes please.

My parents shat on it for being so expensive and my Mum never shut up about my little Demon men (Beastmen) and that it was all Satan.

Made me feel really guilty about being into it all the time .

Nowadays they don't give a shit and my Dad played X wing with me a few weeks back so it was breaking new ground.

As for friends they dig the board games and love having someone willing to play them. Also having a passable GM handy with the DnD normie craze is a sweet deal.

I can pester them for games of X wing occasionally tho.

My brother was a giant fuck up so my folks were just happy I wasn't drugged out and getting arrested. Most of my friends are nerds, and the ones who aren't don't really care. The most I get is the occasional joke about how I spend my weekends pretending to be an elf princess or something.

mom and pop are incredibly nonjudgmental about what their kids like to do but they also feel like I should turn my hobby into a job
Sister is typical cliche female and doesn't even know what DnD even stands for
Brother in law is pretty chill about nerd related stuff
Older brother is a jock and doesn't care
Oldest brother funnily enough was/is your typical frat boy but he played ADD all throughout high school

Family couldn't possibly care less as long it was my own money I was spending. It was better than smoking crack or stealing cars.

Most of the kids in the family are impressed by my robots/spacemen.

>my Mum never shut up about my little Demon men (Beastmen) and that it was all Satan.

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Parents are ok with it, mother likes that I paint stuff. Some friends also play warhams, most don't mind it, some don't even know about it. Most girlfriends liked it, because they like the cute minis and painting. Current gf is a little worried because I my VC collection got a little excessive, but also likes painting minis.

My family accepts it and my friends play with me.

My mom use to paint a bit so she likes to see how my minis come along.

Family thinks it's a bit nerdy, but dad thinks building and paint small models (no matter what they are) is the coolest shit ever. He comes over from time to time to see progress on my army.

Friends now think I'm a total nerd since I recently got into 40k last year and they are loving it. Constant banter, but its all in good fun.

Most of my friends are in my group, so they're my partners in crime, but my family doesn't know.

My mom's kind of in a weird place between holding traditional Christian views and being moderately liberal, so I don't know what she'd think of it. She shrugged off being told rock music was Satanic, and thought Pokemon and Harry Potter were cool despite the evangelical fear of them at the time too. She also loves shit like Lord of the Rings, though only from the films.

However, she would also balk at anything that looked "demonic" or "evil" whenever I played video games (thought Ganon looked like Satan in OOT, thought some enemies in Metroid Prime looked demonic, even disapproves of my step-father watching Walking Dead), though she never explicitly forbade me from playing them even still.

Given her track record, I'd say it's about a 50/50 shot of her thinking DnD is pretty cool, to her having mild concerns about it but ultimately wouldn't care too much. She was around during the Satanic panic bullshit, and seemed to have shrugged the propaganda off, but she still has these weird concerns pop up every now and then.

You have to be 18 to post here.

Dad was a low-level trekkie growing up, he's honestly the one who got me into video games and stuff in the first place.

mum's a fairly standard businesswoman, but happy that I have a social activity to participate in even if she really doesn't get it.

Sister is a soccer junkie and refuses to acknowledge that such things exist, but her boyfriend is a surprisingly versed guy who's played some 5e games and played with his older cousin's 40k figures growing up

honestly, my family is very okay with it, but I'm not exactly a hardcore neckbeard so I suppose it makes some sense.