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[AuroraGyps]

Yet another gamer chick.

I too am a gamer chick, but I am also know as a geek girl & tom boy. My regular name is Andrea, but everyone calls me Andie. I recently turned 32 & I'm divorced (some of you may have read previous posts of mine about my emotional problems, etc). I don't have any kids, but I do have a very needy, precocious, too smart for her own good cat named Lady Zeal (named after an Amber DRPG NPC ). I haven't been to college, but I plan on going eventually. Currently, I'm employed at the local Wegmans grocery store, but I'm on temp. disability right now.
I was first introduced to gaming when I was about 11 or 12 with OD&D, but that only lasted a couple of years and was very infrequent (mostly, I was an active tom boy, usually the only girl in a group of guys, and played baseball, football, hid & seek, and tag). I didn't play any RPGs all through HS, but I read tons of fantasy including DL & FR. I started playing RPGs again at the end of my HS senior year in '91, when I found out my now ex-husband played with his group of friends. While we were together, we played tons of RPGS, including 3E D&D from the time it came out, until just before we split in April 2001 and except for 3 months in a Changling/Werewolf game last year, I haven't played in any games since 2001.
In addition to 3E D&D, I've played Amber DRPG, Werewolf, Vampire, Rifts, Original Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2020, Shadowrun, Dragonlance Saga rules, Whispering Vault, Star Trek, Conspiracy X, Witchcraft, and almost played a few other games.
I'm also an avid reader of fantasy & sci fi (which includes comics & graphic novels) and I'm a big fan of BtVS & AtS (I have both core RPG books, but haven't played). I have a softer side too and am big into makeup, some fashion, and arts & crafts.
I haven't had much luck finding other geek girls IRL, but I'd love to talk on line with other girls that have the same interests as me.

 

[trowizilla]

Hello to the other Andrea! We should form an alliance and take over the forums.

What fantasy stuff do you read, by the way? I always like hearing about good books.

 

[AuroraGyps]

Hello to the other Andrea! We should form an alliance and take over the forums.

What fantasy stuff do you read, by the way? I always like hearing about good books.

Good thing people call me Andie, that way we'll be able to figure out which Andrea people mean.

I just finished Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher, the first in a trilogy (I hope it's just a trilogy ) and it was really good. Of course, I'm a big fan of elemental magic. I've also read Butcher's Dresden books (urban fantasy/horror) and they're good too. I'm also reading a bunch of grapic novels, mostly BtVS & Hellboy, at the same time. I just started the 3rd Sovereign Stone trilogy book, Journey into the Void by Weis & Hickman (the 1st book was ok, the second was better) and next is Sunshine by Robin McKinley (it's supposed to be like Buffy).
I also like Mercedes Lackey (I've read almost all the Valdemar stuff and a few of her other books... she's writing so much w/ other authors lately, I can't even keep up), Louise Cooper (mostly OOP), Charles DeLint, Tanya Huff, and a bunch of other authors I just can't think of right now. I'll read almost anything and from what I've seen other posts on the boards about the books I've read, I'm pretty easy going about the stuff I read. There are very few books that I've read and hated or have not even finished.
My mom picks up most of the books I read at the numerous book sales she goes to (along with her romance and mysteries, dad's horror, mysteries and fantasy, and whatever other books she picks up). I couldn't even tell you how many I have, but it's got to be near 1000, give or take. The rest I get from the library (Buffalo library system rocks).
I also collect books that have Thomas Canty art on the cover. An example of his art is any of the covers for The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthologies, from vol. 1 to present. I have about 100, I've read about half of them, and I've liked the majority of what I've read.

 

[randomling]

Hello Andie! If you do want to sign up for my boards you'll be warmly welcomed in Girl Talk where we are all girl-geeks, so please feel free!

(That's 48)

 

[trowizilla]

I really liked Sunshine, even though I'm not all that fond of Buffy. Charles DeLint is lovely, but I have to take him in smallish doses to keep all his characters straight. I like Mercedes Lackey's earlier stuff (especially the Vanyel ones), but lately it seems as if she's been reusing the same character types too often.
But really, I'll read anything, even the back of the shampoo bottle if there's nothing else around. Wish my mom still got me books, but then I'm very expensive to keep in reading material. Ah well, there's always birthdays and Christmas.
I hadn't known who Thomas Canty was, but thinking back I remember liking a lot of his art.

 

[Timeboxer]

If you do want to sign up for my boards you'll be warmly welcomed in Girl Talk where we are all girl-geeks, so please feel free!

>.> <.< Hmm, are you going to sell me on these boards of yours?

 

[AuroraGyps]

Hello Andie! If you do want to sign up for my boards you'll be warmly welcomed in Girl Talk where we are all girl-geeks, so please feel free!

(That's 48)

Thanks for the invite. I registered and now I'm just waiting for the reg. e-mail so I can log-in. I got the Girl Talk e-mail, but not the other... and when I tried to reply to the e-mail I did get, it got sent back to me as undeliverable.

 

[randomling]

Amy - what can I do to sell you? I'll tell you what we are, and hope you like it: we're a fun, friendly and silly (sometimes very silly!) messageboard community that was spawned from the ENWorld Hivemind just about two years ago. (We get most of our new members from ENWorld or through personal recommendation, so we're pretty close-knit.) Many of us (but not all) are gamers, but the boards are not gaming-focused, more community-focused. If you like the sound of that, my best advice is to wander over to www.randomlingshouse.com and have a browse to see if you like it.

Andie - we've been having some board-oriented email problems, sad to say, which we can't seem to get to the bottom of! Annoying. I'll activate your account myself and send you an email when it's done. Sorry for the delay!

 

[Lady_Acoma]

Hi, I'm pretty sure I qualify as a gamer as I have 3 different games going this weekend table top, and a couple online as well. And I'm almost certain I am a girl...I have the right accessories and everything. My name is Marcia. I have been gaming for almost a full year now, lol. I have wanted to play since I was a kid but it didn't work out like that. So now I am a 24 year old doing my best to cram in several years all at once or something. As for female gamers I only table top with a couple currently, but most of my online gamer friends are female and not the gamer guy attachment type...actually most of tbose are the bring a new gamer girl attachment type. Now if only I had met them Before I found my own games lol! I read ALOT, because what is life without books really? I am on my way to an Art Education degree and a few more along the way as well. Anyhow, go girls! Yay!

 

[randomling]

[grins] Hello, Marcia, and welcome to ENWorld! That puts us up to 49.

(OK, out of 14k that isn't great, but better than none! EDIT - just checked. 26k. Wow.)

I read too, but for some reason I've been reading lots less in recent years. Every now and then I get on a new books kick, and I just started The Da Vinci code which is looking great. I'm a big fan of Diana Wynne Jones, who writes children's and adult fantasy, Michael Marshall Smith, who writes sci-fi, and Pihlip K Dick, among others. (What is it with three names, I wonder?) I also love lots of poetry - Eliot, Auden, ee cummings, Charles Causely, Christina Rosetti, Siegfried Sassoon, Grace Nichols, Maya Angelou.