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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 6465056" data-attributes="member: 54629">Bear in mind that we're talking about a woman in her mid-thirties who still counts on her fingers ...Yes, I've considered it. I've done such things in the past. I've also been posting "helpful hints" in my campaign Facebook page. After tomorrow night's session, we'll be taking a six-week break for the summer holidays (too many players going away), so I'll have more time to come up with a cheat sheet.Indeed. She got her RPG start playing D&D 3.0 in a PbP campaign. I actually recruited her from EN World to join my fortnightly Star Wars Saga Edition campaign. Another player in the group was also running a D&D 4e campaign on the other Fridays, so she had to learn both those systems at the same time. When those campaigns finished a year or two later, we played Bulldogs! (a FATE-based sci-fi game) for a year or two, before moving to the Next playtest, which took us from the open beta to the closed 'alpha' to the final 5e rules. At some point, she also joined a mutual acquaintance's long-running Pathfinder game. She's currently playing in at least three different 5e games (including an Encounters program game) and has recently started DMing (!) a 5e Encounters game.Yes!EDIT: Also, when she posted in my campaign's FB group that she's dropping her current PC, she asked if anyone had any "possible relationships that they would like somebody to fill". This reminds me that she does this when first creating a character too - instead of coming up with a concept she wants to play, she asks the group if there's a role or class that needs to be filled (like cleric, which most people in my group tend to avoid for some reason). We always just tell her to play whatever she wants to play, but now I'm wondering if maybe we should just let her "fill a gap", since having her create her own character with no concern for what the others are doing has most recently resulted in a character with no connections to any of the other PCs.On that note, the player who thinks she needs to come out of her "goody two shoes" comfort zone is the one playing a street urchin whose mother is a prostitute. He thinks she should play his PC's mother. Now there's a possible relationship that somebody would like her to fill! (I have mentioned it to her but I doubt she'll go along with it. That seems a little too far out of her comfort zone. I'm foreseeing either a cleric or a beastmaster ranger, although she may yet surprise me ...)</blockquote>

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