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Pandion, is the hostile PC going to be a member of the party on the face of it (i.e. a traitor), or will he operate separately from them?

I did that a number of years ago - basically turned Australia on its head, shrank it and made some minor changes to its outline so it wouldn't be too obvious even if looking at it the wrong (right) way up. My players and I all loved that map, they never caught on to the fact that it was a...

Very much seconded. There's no comparison IME between a group of friends who game together, and a group of gamers who don't share any interests outside gaming (or worse, don't have any). For everyone who isn't either a friend or recommended by a friend, I'd recommend meeting at a pub first...

(Pallas's account, by Pallas's player: ) There was much to do. I searched the body of the chaneller. Found a twisted copper ring. Kept it. I would show it to the others later. Katrin was making speeches. I didn’t pay attention. They seemed to be going well. The orcmen listened. They didn’t...

That is the crux, yup. And so I spoke to S'mon today - I've retired my character and am taking a break from his game. Thanks again for everybody's advice and good wishes.

Thanks LP - I agree.

Sounds like people who've played under a lot of abusive DMs before. There's players who'll _never_ split up. There's players who'll _never_ surrender. Usually that's due to nasty experiences in the past with DMs who'll gleefully screw PCs at every opportunity for splitting from the group or...

Gods below, how frustrating! Crossing my fingers that you'll be able to start making some changes with the new player. That doesn't sound like a healthy situation to be in.

To be fair to S'mon, as a general statement that isn't true. S'mon ran a couple of low-level sessions of the Conan RPG for us a while ago, the first session mostly solo for me. In that setting I was able to play a female Cimmerian Barbarian and to feel free to expand and make the world my...

Hm yup, very good point. That's been precisely my experience in real life working in two extremely male-dominated professions, as well as in the martial arts. Yeah well, I feel more like in the play than in the real world on that one... :)

All of 1-3 are problems in the game, although I haven't seen 4. To be fair, I'm getting the impression that only some part of that is the way S'mon presents female NPCs - a major part is how some of the male players react to female NPCs and immediately discard them as either pure eye candy or...

I've asked S'mon whether he'd consider giving female PCs a break as compared to female NPCs, but apparently that is not an option. His stance as I understand it is that while it might help the female players, it would break the verisimilitude of his setting. As neither are options at this...

Hm. Cho was my first PC and the first source of my frustration. AIR not a single NPC ever so much as spoke a word to her, while the male melee PCs with the big weapons were eminently visible and respected. At the time I let myself be persuaded into believing that it was my failure in designing...

It is not that blatant. If it were I'd have left the game quickly - I have no time for people who so simply and obviously don't play in my league. :) I've been a bit hesitant to post examples here for two reasons: Firstly because, as we all know from similar threads on these boards...

That would be cool of course. :) After discussion with S'mon I'm thinking that maybe also I should change my attitude to NPCs in the game. The few women in positions of power in our campaign region don't look like they have any actual impact to me (and most seem to derive their power from...

That's what I generally tend to do, yup. Works ok in real life, too. ;) In this case it didn't get me anywhere. By now we're at a stage where I'm being referred to as withdrawn and reluctant to speak up, so easy to overlook. Believe me, it isn't my natural state of being.

So I need other PCs/players to back me up to have a voice in the game? :confused: That doesn't sound like fun to me, not when they don't need me to back them up in return. Thanks for good wishes. :)

:p Thanks for the laugh.

Hey, can you guys get off real-life religion history and politics and leave this thread to what it is about? :) If you need to get a thread closed I suggest someone start a new one and take it there.

I'm one of S'mon's two players who are having problems with sexism in his game. I've always worked in male-dominated fields in real life, and as it happens my leisure interests also largely involve activities in which I meet more men than women. I'm at ease dealing with men in work and...