Lanefan
Victoria Rules
I've never had a Bard get very far but I've had some thumpin' good Part-Elves in other classes.I've played half elves and bards in every edition since 1E. They all were sub-par at the table.
I've never had a Bard get very far but I've had some thumpin' good Part-Elves in other classes.I've played half elves and bards in every edition since 1E. They all were sub-par at the table.
I started gaming around 1988 and I didn't have a regular black player at my table until 2018 when I ran Curse of Strahd. A friend asked me to run CoS for his group and half the players were black, half were Latino, and 75% of them were gay. This was a combination that would have blown my mind back in 1991. (I think I played Cyberpunk 2020 for 2-3 years before I saw a photo of Mike Pondsmith and was surprised that he was black.) I think I saw more black gamers at my local game store a few years after Magic the Gathering become popular. I make no claims that there's a connection just when I can recall noticing it.Hrm. I have to admit, I actually don't know if my players are white or not, having almost never seen their faces, but, I think most of them have been white. The ones I do know, have almost always been white. The last POC that I know was at my table would have been about 2000 or so.
My unusualness:How are you an outlier? How do you feel like one?
Since forever our player base has fairly consistently been about 1/3 female, with variance now and then of course. Relatively recently (i.e. the last three-ish years or so) that number has ticked up somewhat mostly due to one game being nearly all women and most of those being new to our crew.It’s that old distinction between anecdotes & data.
Before one of my friends invited his GF to join us in the mid-80’s, I hadn’t even seen a female human being in a game store besides Moms buying stuff for their kids.
Sorry to ask, but I am curious about this kinda thing. Which blue box and which black box are you talking about?1. My go-to edition is OD&D (by which I mean the white box, blue box, red box, and black box* editions; they're all coequal in my eyes and not different enough from each other for me to go about drawing pedantic distinctions).
* For the curious, I'm a Millennial who started gaming on black box OD&D and 2nd Edition AD&D.
Sorry to ask, but I am curious about this kinda thing. Which blue box and which black box are you talking about?