amazon: Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress: A Hip Girl's Guide to the D&D Game

[catsclaw227]

Forget hip, she looks like she has child bearing hips.
I'd nail it twice every day of the week, three times on the weekends and four times on federal holidays.
But I do like them a little older.
/I put on my robe and wizard hat.

I find this post over the top, and unnecessary. Please... let's be respectful.

 

[Jim Hague]

Did you go to the page linked in the OP? If not, go there, and tell me how you rate the material found there.

I rated it a 1, because that was as low as the rating system would allow...it is more appropriately a zero due to lack of information...or negative due to initial impressions of the product from the information provided.

I would consider that a thorough review. If you want marketing, at least write a product description or something...anything.

Y'know, it's generally considered better, and more polite, to not rate a book until after you've read it, Werk. Rating an Amazon page for a book that hasn't been released yet is rude, at the very least. Personally, I simply contacted the admins there to report an inaccurate and predjudiced review (yours, with a link to your post here) and sent in a polite request for them to have the publisher add material.

 

[Umbran]

/I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Grandma is not amused. Please learn to be more respectful, or refrain from posting in this thread again.

Folks - the whole issue of gender and pronouns is nigh-political for many. Please be careful about how you approach posting on the topic. Respect for the opinions and sensibilities of others shall be the order of the day.

 

[Fishbone]

Sorry about that, people. Won't happen again.
I wonder how many women play RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons. In my limited experience girls are outnumbered by guys by roughly 10-1.
It seems like that with other interests that tie in closely with Dungeons and Dragons like comic books, fantasy and science fiction movies and books, and heavy metal.
Its a shame.
Edit post: I've been using they and it in place of he and the even more cumbersome he/she. I rarely see the he/she or she/he thing around anymore, thank goodness. The use of they and it seems to be accepted so much that I'm not even sure thats its considered grammatically incorrect to use those words in that fashion.

 

[T. Foster]

I was thinking that she doesn't look hip enough to be giving hip girls advice on anything, actually.

But the picture is probably an old one?

That picture has surely got to be a high-school yearbook shot from the late 80s or early 90s, which is just the kind of ironic thing a "hip chick" would do. But if by some chance I'm wrong and that actually is a contemporary picture, then I have to agree with your first sentence

 

[Elf Witch]

I wouldn't mind giving this book a read it might be fun.

As a female gamer I don't care about pronouns. I don't care about terms like sorcerer/sorceress. I don't find using the male prooun as a tool to shut out female gamers nor do I find using a combo of he/she to be a tool to make the game more female friendly.

Now if they had different stats and rules for female characters then yeah I would get pissy.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Now if they had different stats and rules for female characters then yeah I would get pissy.

Well, you're limited to 18/50 Strength, for a start!

-Hyp.

 

[Fishbone]

More comeliness though. Maybe a higher wisdom limit, too.
Ah, decimal ability scores, how I love thee.

 

[mythago]

The difference is that these are male professions. There are lots of female professions that don't have male equivalents; viz., maid, nurse, charwoman, housewife, seamstress, governess, babysitter, matchstick girl, alewife, spinner, damsel in distress, etc.

The male equivalent of the maid would be the footman, valet or butler, depending on what kind of maid you're talking about. "Damsel in distress" isn't a profession and there aren't matchstick boys or girls anymore. That aside, since men now do many of those jobs, you have nurse, custodian, homemaker, tailor, nanny, babysitter, match-seller, and bartender or innkeeper.

Anyway, I suspect the target market for this book is going to be the sort of D&D player who hopes that it portends a peek into the minds of the hot young things who somehow aren't flocking to D&D.

 

[dcas]

The male equivalent of the maid would be the footman, valet or butler, depending on what kind of maid you're talking about.

Why, a scullery maid of course!! Also, the kind that washes the flagstones all day long.

"Damsel in distress" isn't a profession and there aren't matchstick boys or girls anymore. That aside, since men now do many of those jobs, you have nurse, custodian, homemaker, tailor, nanny, babysitter, match-seller, and bartender or innkeeper.

My tongue was actually at least partly in cheek, but anyway -- since the D&D classes would be historically male "professions," the language probably hasn't had time to come up with unique terms for women adopting these professions (and won't, with the way we're going :grumble. So there's no distinct term for a woman ranger; similarly, there's no distinct term for a male nurse. Maybe in a few hundred years there will be.

(I don't think "bartender" and "innkeeper" carry quite the same meaning as "alewife," by the way.)

Anyway, I suspect the target market for this book is going to be the sort of D&D player who hopes that it portends a peek into the minds of the hot young things who somehow aren't flocking to D&D.

LOL.