Pack, Herd, Pride or Lone

I am mostly the lone wolf who looks at the pride that always seems just of of reach. If I ever do join I find it overwhelms me and I am back to the lone wolf unless mating season !!!!! lol

Outside of my family pack/herd (we are a real mix so i can't categorise either way), lone wolf.  But I have been craving more contact with people for the last couple of years.

When on holiday, all bets are off.  I mingle with others, maybe walk/talk with them.  Some of my holidays are spent trekking in places abroad.  You can't avoid meeting people in those situations and for me it's a chance to socialise without strings attached.  Social situations are on my terms and I can easily bid farewell to a person and leave their group, then attach to a different group.

I have a lurcher or to be more specific a long dog, as she's a greyhound, whippet and saluki cross, she brindle. I used to have two retired racing greyhounds, one, Dogglet, a large brindle and Monty who was tuxedo.I'd never really had anything to do with greyhounds before, but they're the most cat like dogs, they spend most of thier time alseep, total 40mph couch potatoes, that and the thieving, we found Dogglets stash behind a bush in the garden, where he took all his ill gotten gains. Monty could never quite believe we were really going out for a walk and got so excited he'd leap up, all 4 paws off the ground to look me in the eye.

Pack otherwise loner out of self preservation instinct.

i LOVE greyhounds they are so beautiful. So you have one? What coloration?

I'm part of a pack, consisting of Fearn and her doggy friends and and their humans, theres between 3 and 5 of us with at least one dog each, all but one are hounds, either greyhounds or lurchers. Its a very loose pack, I'm on the edges of it, which is sort of how I like it, it's good though if one human is unwell or something, the others will take over walking duties. It's interesting being part of this pack, I do feel like a cat amoung dogs, they're very different to me, but we all get on and they're cool with me being ASC.

Oh Lone. Apart from the dog of course. 

Maybe that's a pack of sorts? 

I tend to agree with you. I'm mostly a loner but I certainly have a pride instinct for a very small number of specific people.

Humans are odd creatures, I think when we're in heavy traffic we act like a herd of stampeding wildebeast all heads down going in the same direction, but if we're in moderately heavy traffic, we act like a pack and try and outflank our prey, in this case being other drivers.

Lone wolf, part of a pride for very short periods, always family once in a blue moon, although i would like more. packs and herds are not up my alley.

I think a lot of women see D&D as a male thing, one of my friends, years ago, said she and another friend had played it, but stopped because they didn't think having to kill things was "nice"!!!??!!! I just thought WTF, I think this says a lot, I'm not sure what, but I think theres a bit of social commentary and stuff about social expectations in there.

I don't play computer games, I never learned how to use the controls, but I did watch and try and get involved a bit, but I got put off when the computer started taking over and doing more stuff for you, it seemed like a loss of control and a loss of everything i liked about D&D.

Yeah the group I’m with is all guys, which is frankly a bummer. It would be even more fun with more diversity. I often play as female characters just to try and even out the testosterone levels a little bit lol.

I keep trying to convince all our wives to join but I think they all believe we need our “guy time” or whatever

I also prefer magic over tech in D&D, though recently I did a fantasy 1920’s setting and that was pretty fun. It was a cool combo of both old school guns with minimal amounts of magic smattered in. Neat stuff.

I'm a brilliant general, I think one of the problems for me and maybe other women too, is the fact that it's mostly men who play.

I think it depends on what worlds you play in too, I like medieval or ancient ones rather than the more sci-fi based ones, I can do magic but not tech. We decided that we really had a to have Luggage, from the Terry Pratchet novels, only it got bit by a werwolf and we ended up with WereLuggage, really not a good team mate when it went off on one, lol

That’s awesome that you used to play D&D, I bet you were a blast to play with lol. I’m sorry that it doesn’t sound like you have a group to play with. I’m lucky I have a handful of guys that understand when I lock up during a botched improvisation or forget how to roll for crits. Maybe we should have an NAS D&D group lol

I thought we'd all be lone's with prides we dip in and out of, I think its a very autistic thing. I think a lot of NT's want us to be in herds whereas they want to be the pack watching over and directing us.

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I used to love playing D&D, for some reasons minotaurs were always South African! I've not played for years and years, I think theres quite a long waiting list to into a game in many areas. Taught my son to play and he still does some 30 years later, I used to take him to games workshop on a saturday morning and leave him there whilst my daughter and I went shopping. I'd go back and find him backed into a corner by about 6 other kids who played together and have to tell him how to beat them. The staff loved me, even though I rarely spent any money in there.

Loner for the most part. Sometimes I’ll join in on a pride, either for practical reasons (projects, work etc.), opportunistic ones (carpool etc.) or when engaging in group activities with my closest friends.

Lone!

I’ll probably join a pride from time to time, but I never stay for long. I enjoy spending time with family and friends, but I need my quiet time too. Packs and herds? Definitely not my thing!

I'm Lone.

I want to paddle my own canoe, in a community where everyone's meant to do the same thing.

Hmm. Judging from these descriptions, I think I can switch between lone and pride. I can be very happy on my own, but if left alone too long I get sad, depressed and lonely. Then I have my pride (or maybe more than one? Family plus small groups of friends) which is great, but again if with them too long I feel drained. The size of a pride - if I understand you correctly - is about as big as I can manage, packs or herds sound way too big for me.

I am the Lone Arranger! I need to have a space where everything is kept orderly; my safe space But, I'm struggling to hold onto my pride.

I'm being a bit heavy on the puns, so basically, I have split from wife and found somewhere to live away from her and the kids (only a walk away). But I'm finding myself needing physical order to counterbalance the mental disorder in my head.

So, yeah it's a lone pursuit, but I don't want to lose sight of my pride (ie. wife and kids)