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Message to the person from EnWorld who came by the gaming room looking for me: Sorry I missed you! Dan (my husband) and I were running the gaming program for most of the con, since the guy in charge had to be rushed to the hospital half-way through the con! (Don't worry, he's okay :) I was...

Boston (Cambridge) Massachusetts I live in Boston where there are more gamers per square inch then in most parts of the world, so we have a lot of FLGS' :) Here's my favorite: Pandemonium Books and Games (www.pandemoniumbooks.com) This is a science fiction and gaming store in Harvard Square...

Here are some roleplaying exercises to help you get into a female mind-set preparatory to playing a female character. Note that you should first have a good idea of who your character is, their background, etc... 1. As a woman, you would be likely to seek out a female role model growing up...

I'd love to see a Gencon in Boston! We have a large city, as someone mentioned, New England is very densely populated, plus there are a large number of universities in New England, which tends to mean more gamers. I would suspect that in terms of numbers of gamers, Boston is pretty high up...

Some day! When I have retired and have copious free time to work on it... I will run my diceless Time Travel Call of Cthulhu campaign that's a twisted combination of Groundhog Day and Twelve Monkeys. I have the whole thing planned out, beginning, middle, ending, themes, characters, the works...

Nobody here from Montana, huh? Balsamic Dragon

Anyone here from Montana? I'm helping to run gaming at the Worldcon in Boston, Massachusetts this August. The following was sent to all the folks on program. So, if you are from Montana, come join the World Science Fiction convention, Noreascon 4! There will be gaming and lots of other fun...

I'd love to come, but you're talking the week after Picnicon, on the 4th of July weekend, so I think I'm going to be gamed out :( Balsamic Dragon

In the game I'm currently playing in, we have: 1 half-orc 1 elf 1 spirit folk 1 nezumi In the game I'm running, we have 2 humans 1 dwarf 1 elf Balsamic Dragon

I just made a Str 16, Con 8 character. She's a pirate swashbuckler type who is fairly muscular from years of climbing ropes and swinging her heavy cutlass around. Unfortunately, she's also a drunk, hence the low Con. Years of grog have taken its toll, leaving her Fortitude Save substantially...

Ah, the bimonthly female gamers thread! I really need to start frequenting the boards more, because it seems like every time I check in, this is the thread I end up responding to. So in brief: hi there, female gm, gaming for 25 years, gming for 20, have run pretty much everything at one time...

Home sick, thinking about new D&D books I must buy :) Expanded Psionics Handbook: No. D&D Map Folio I: No. Complete Divine: No. Serpent Kingdoms: Yes. Eberron Campaign Setting: No. Planar Handbook: No. Races of Stone: Maybe, I'll have to look at it first. D&D Map Folio II: No. D&D Basic Set...

I think that's right, it's a nice set up ;) The first time I ran this adventure, the party sneaked in through the chimney, but in the first fight, the Barbarian raged. He slaughted the first few orcs, moved to the next room, and kept going in a killing frenzy! The rest of the party was...

My husband's 10th level campaign is a Oriental Adventures/Planescape crossover. We are leading a trade caravan based in Sigil as it wends its way through various planes. We just finished thwarting a plot to extend the shadowlands in a particular plane, by restoring the seven bells containing...

Here's what I'm guessing may have happened: you want the DM to run a really intense roleplaying type of game, right? This means that there may be romantic plot lines involved. Many otherwise gender-neutral DM's have a hard time running a romantic plot-line when players are playing...

I like that idea a lot! Here's another way to do it that might work: have the kender be extremely generous to others and want to give away all of his extra possessions. The problem is that the things he ends up giving away actually belong to other people :) So he's kind of like Robin Hood...

How many adventurers does it take to screw in a light bulb? ALL of them! NEVER split the party! :) Balsamic Dragon

Hey there! Arisia gaming is being run by a good friend of mine this year, Jason Schneiderman. He has worked mightily with the Arisia folks to resolve some of the gaming issues the con has had in the past, and has stated officially that gamemasters _will_ be comped. They are being treated as...

Oh, I totally agree. But the Star Wars world is so very non-realistic :) I haven't really played with the starship combat rules either. I agree that piloting skill should be of primary importance though. My take on Stormtroopers is this, and this is totally apocryphal. When the unit was...

It's a tricky thing to describe... Hmmm, the D&D system has always seemed very organic to me. It's rules are very non-intuitive in the sense that just because you know that a Paladin is a holy warrior, doesn't mean that you will be able to guess what kinds of abilities they might have at any...