There is a certain breed of man - a portly, white, masculine man - who lives for nothing more than stripping down to his jeans, slathering his body in oil paint and showing up on game day wearing little more than the colors of his favorite football team. He stands in the stands and shakes his gratuitous flab with a hearty roar whenever his team gets the ball. The TV cameras always search him out for a close up and everybody watching him thinks, "yes - that is a football fan."

But it's not every football fan.

Likewise the world of gaming also has a certain breed of man - a portly, white, masculine man - who lives in mothers basement, has a collection of every Star Wars action figure ever made and loves to squeal about shooting magic missiles while rolling the dice. People watch him on YouTube waving a plastic sword while proclaiming himself to be Gordoan of Vermentor, 20th Level Paladin!!! and they think, "yes - that is a gamer."

But it's not every gamer.

And that is why DiceAge.com exists. This site realizes that people come to the phenomenon of gaming from a million different backgrounds. All ages, sexes, ethnicities, and nationalities are represented, and while gaming generally attracts a good-natured bunch of people, not everyone who games is going to want to spend four hours on a friday night with Gordoan of Vermentor the 20th Level Paladin, or Lazlo the Vampire obsessed LARPer, or Steve that guy who only plays Classic Battletech and nothing else. Or maybe they would? Who knows?

The point is that at DiceAge.com we want you to be yourself and find people who game the way you do. You can't pick the people you work with. You can't pick the people you go to school with. But at DiceAge.com you can pick the people you game with, and that makes all the difference in the world.

Copyright 2008, Greater Than Zen.