Recent content by DonaQuixote

A Fellow Scholar! This is so exciting for me to hear! I am a graduate student in religious studies, and I've been toying with some ideas about projects on fantasy in general and D&D specifically (you'd be surprised what we can fit into our discipline nowadays!). It's way out of my supposed area...

How do you treat the issue of gender in your worlds? Do you include elements of gender roles, sexism, etc.? Do you opt for largely ignoring sexism for the sake of your female players? Do you not worry about the issue, but still have a world that conforms to traditional gender roles (barmaids...

Legacy I am currently in a game named, appropriately, Legacy (or Legacies, we can't ever quite pin that down) in which two of us are playing children of PCs from our last big epic game. And yes, there is an elf who was in the last and is sheperding us younglings through the present. There is...

Hello! I'm Doña Q. Started the "older gamers" thread. That was terrifically helpful, so thanks everyone who replied! Mostly just lurk. Hubby brought me to the site the same way 9 years ago hubby (then just boyfriend) brought me to a game and the rest was history ... I'm a Graduate Student in...

This is heartening! It is so helpful to hear from all of you! Here I felt I was staring the end of my gaming time in the face, and I learn that actually I'm a relative newbie! :) The recruitment resources are also amazingly helpful! Part of what has set off this particular concern for me is...

You know who you are! :) I don't mean a specific age group so much as a stage of life. Anyway, I started this thread looking for advice from folks who have experienced what I am experiencing right now -- husband and I are off in the professional world, with bosses and coworkers who, if they...