Attract Women While Slaying Dragons

This one is for the guys that want to take their nerdiness to the next level. Here’s how I talk about Dungeons & Dragons and incorporate it into my seductions.

As you may or may not know, The Sneak and I have a deep seeded love for role-playing games. Dungeons & Dragons* in particular. We’ve written about this before here on the Stylelife blog.

There’s more than enough material out there on how playing Dungeons & Dragons can benefit you in the real world, so I’m not going to get into it, suffice to say:

You should play it if you have the opportunity.

Today, I want to offer those who are interested a short visualization game I’ve played with a women as a demonstration of higher value. It’s completely based on Dungeons & Dragons and it can be a lot of fun. In this scenario, you’re going to be the game-master and you’re going to lead a girl who’s never played before through a short adventure, here goes:

Start with an identity story about your love for role-playing games. Make sure the story includes several ways that the game has benefited your professional life or social life. I particularly love to talk about using D&D to explore the psychology of my friends or how it’s helped me become a more creative person by allowing me to step into the shoes of someone else and experience a new perspective. In addition, I like to pepper in some celebrities who are known to play D&D, like Stephen Colbert and Vin Diesel.

At this point, you’ll get some sort of neutral or positive acknowledgment. You’ll probably get some comment about how, “they’ve heard of it but never played,” or about how they had a friend or relative who played it when they were in high school or college. Every once in a while you’ll get something really awesome like, “I’ve always wanted to play” or “I play all the time.”

This is where you’re going to start the game. Say the following: “Great, I’m going to show you what it’s like.” Say that word for word. Then immediately say, “If you could be any fantasy creature what would you be – like an elf, a fairy or a demon or something like that.”

When they say something (for some reason “fairy” seems to be the common answer) you then ask a few details about their choice, here are a few I’ve used:

–What is your name?
–How big or small are you?
–What color is your skin, wings, etc.
–If you were this creature what would your goals be? Conquer the world, become a princess, peace on earth, etc.

Now ask, “If you had one attack power what would it be?” Always give them a few choices, and don’t use words they might not know: shoot lighting, super strength, lift stuff with your mind, master with a bow and arrow or a sword.

Now ask, “If you had one defensive power what would it be?” Same rules as above apply, here are some options I’ve used: flight, invisibility, invincibility, force field.

Now that she essentially has a character you’re going to jump her right into the adventure, which will be very short. Start by saying this, “Okay, now I want you to imagine what I’m about to tell you….

The leader of your village wants to collect a potion that can heal a sickness in your city. If you can get it everyone lives, if you fail everyone dies. You’ve traveled all the way to a great obsidian pyramid where you know they keep the potion. You walk through the entrance into a large black room, lit with torches. You can see the flames dancing across the reflective black walls inside the tomb. Across from you is a giant bronze door, in front of it is a huge grey spider web. It’s blocking your way to the door. If you want to get the potion you need to get through that door. You are (character name). What do you do to get past the spider web?”

Let them respond and no matter what they say, use you’re imagination to help them make sure it works out.

As they pass under the web, no matter what condition it’s in, a giant spider reaches down at them. Give them a chance to react. Destroying or evading the creature. Then continue by saying the following, “You’ve passed the spider and you’re at the giant brass door. What do you do now?”

They’ll open the door. When they do say this, “Floating in the center of the room is a vial of red liquid surrounded by a bright cylinder of light that emanates from the ceiling. You know this is the potion you’re looking for, what do you do?”

Let them grab the potion, then say, “Great, you’ve saved your village and (character name) is one step closer to achieving her goals.”

Finish up with “…and that’s Dungeon’s and Dragons. You just played it for the first time.”

Possible follow up conversations that have worked for me are to cold read the character they created or cold read the decisions that they made and explain what it says about them.

Enjoy,
Evolve

*For RPG Guys Only: I know we’re going get emails about this so just to let you know, The Sneak and I mostly play Pathfinder from Paizo, Inc. but we started with Dungeons & Dragons.