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Runner  Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98  |
Apparently I managed to necro Fortune in the process, so I don't think anyone is going to complain :P
Fortune, where have you been? |
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Oct 6 2006, 05:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 498 Joined: 31-May 02 From: All the way in the Back to the Left. Member No.: 2,800 |
Why did you have to necro Fortune? This place was so much better when he was MIA. I was just about to get his stuff. |
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Oct 6 2006, 05:33 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
There, fixed... ewwwww. :eek: |
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Oct 6 2006, 05:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 498 Joined: 31-May 02 From: All the way in the Back to the Left. Member No.: 2,800 |
Sounds like a horrible Polish horror film.
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Oct 6 2006, 09:27 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Hmmm ...
NecroFortuna ... That would be an interesting character name. 8) ... or a decent canned seafood label. :eek: As to where I've been ... a number of life's little surprizes, in combination with a short foray into the (original) Deadlands, and my basically just being a slack bastard (I didn't want to face the daunting proposition of reading all those missed posts :eek: ) have contributed to my absence. But, rest assured, all ye that were troubled. My temporary relapse has brought about a renewed interest in the Sixth World. ;) :grinbig: |
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Oct 6 2006, 09:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 498 Joined: 31-May 02 From: All the way in the Back to the Left. Member No.: 2,800 |
Great, who exactly broke the Seventh Seal?
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Oct 9 2006, 04:38 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 533 Joined: 26-February 02 From: In a hot tub, with lots of bubbles and champagne waiting for you. Member No.: 1,972 |
women and shadowrun? that's an oxymoron! any campagin game, all it is is dorky guys who've never so much as touched a boobie in their lives with bad hygine. lol the one time a girl tried to join our campagin she lasted less than a month, not anything on our parts, but I'm sure she realised that "hey what the heck am i doin with a buncha losers?" HA the guy i was played with turn to me when she first showed up to play and whipsered "there are actually girls that play this game" had me tearing up, his delivery i do not do justice. classic......*sigh* memories like the corner of my mind...
yet we long for thier embrace, their warmth, their touch....careful what you wish for...you just might get it |
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Oct 9 2006, 07:23 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,000 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Halifax, Canada Member No.: 7,975 |
Ok, although I was hoping this thread had died a long time ago, I just had to respond to Hocus Pocus' comment....
My wife and I are both long time Shadowrun gamers. Her brother got us hooked on the game 8 or so years ago... at the height of our gaming group (before a few moved out of town, the joy of military families), we had 2 girls in our campaign, siblings to gamers in the group. After all, if you can't beat your brother and his nerdy friends, then join in and see what its' all about... I can imagine a lot of other female gamers got into it much the same way.. either that or their significant others wore down their resistances... ;) (there's even a couple I've come across where they were more interested in the game than their bf's after getting introduced to a group.... now that is funny! ) I find it refreshing actually. To have a female play a female character makes them so much more real - and generally less slutty - than when a guy plays a female character. That you guys can't find a decent female gamer is your own loss really.. try not to look soo desperately single at the next con or meet... ;) |
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Oct 9 2006, 07:26 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Try to take most of what Hocus writes in the spirit it is normally intended ... tongue-in-cheek. ;)
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Oct 9 2006, 04:17 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
Corrupt your women!
My gaming groups currently have 7 women scattered among them. All but one were brought in to the fold by their husbands or dads (two of those are mine). But now that they're in, they're staying in - heck, my daughter keeps kvitching at me because I've skipped out on our every other week WoD game, and when I skip, she doesn't get to go.... |
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Oct 9 2006, 10:29 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Deep down inside I can't really believe that any women actually play table top RPGs and like it. It's entirely the domain of malodorous rejected geeky guys. Sniffle.
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Oct 9 2006, 10:52 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
I'm not malodorous. :grr:
Who among us is malodorous? |
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Oct 10 2006, 04:00 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 533 Joined: 26-February 02 From: In a hot tub, with lots of bubbles and champagne waiting for you. Member No.: 1,972 |
oh my stars and garters! haven't seen ya in ages man, how the h-e-double hockey sticks are ya? de land down under treatin' ya well i hope? dunno if ya heard stumpy got the site back up and runing. Truely your sexy manly presence is missed indeed ;) an nah, the wife though campagin games were not what a grown man would do in his off time. Oh yeah she feigned interesting while we were going out and even attended a meeting or two. But as always after marriage KABLAMO!! illegal chop block, and adios ta shadowrun. Ah but i was a newly wed in love "oh anything for you my sweet apple dumplin'". Bleh, fight the power mis hombres! for if you do not a lifetime of servile servitude, a dystopian matriarchal existance a hollow, shadowy form of the once great man you were Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. rhyme of the ancient mariner (an exerp)- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (my favorite poem) |
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Oct 10 2006, 04:24 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
I'm doing alright, thanks. I'm glad to see that you sound like you are still you're still doing well. I'll have to drop by sometime soon. :) |
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Oct 12 2006, 11:27 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Heh, I love how at this time only 11% of poll respondants claim to be female. And I'll bet that half of that 11% are actually guys who WISH they were women, or something like that.
I guess that means that if I ever want to reproduce I'll have to hide the fact that I play RPGs... |
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Oct 13 2006, 02:42 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 12-August 06 Member No.: 9,097 |
Bah! Girls love it when I talk about my panther assault cannon.
...What? |
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Oct 13 2006, 04:39 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...somewhere, there's a comeback here, just haven't figured one out yet.
Maybe the dikote combat axe in the hands of a female troll Mossad operative which performs a circumcision on said PAC. mazel tov... |
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Oct 16 2006, 04:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
Getting married actually expanded my group. I learned that my brother-in-law is a gamer too. Come to think of it, one reason my wife tolerates "nerd night" is probably 'cause she grew up with it. |
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Oct 16 2006, 04:12 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
And she knows you're not out at the bars chatting with some floozy or getting in trouble. Probably not drunk (well not too drunk) or getting into fights (well RL fights... probably)
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Oct 16 2006, 04:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
No, that's a different night...
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Oct 16 2006, 05:39 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
I worry about you, Wounded Ronin.
Despite any evidence to the contrary, you seem deadset on the idea that no girls game, or date guys that game. Did you watch Mazes and Monsters too many times growing up? Or after you were grown, depending? ;) Girls game. It's a fact. Despite years of evidence to the contrary, and a widely held knowledge of the fact that they *don't* game, girls are everywhere now. It's only been in the past 5-10 years that it's really become the case, but nowadays finding Mrs. Right can definitely include a sampling of her favorite systems, and asking her if she's alliance or horde. I married a girl gamer, my GM's wife plays with us, my best friend is trying to set up a family game night with me, my wife, his fiancee, and our 4 gaming age kids (3 female, 1 male). My other friends all have wives who range from toleratant to participatory, and we know a few other women that play as well. All in in all, we're at about a 60/40 ratio of men to women. Girl gamers may not be as rabid as the guys, which may be where the view comes from. Most of the girl gamers i know are willing to try new systems, and have fun, but don't know 15 different games, which they will rank in order of ease of use, art style, and power level. The guys in my group have 1-2 games a week, and play mmorpgs for a couple hours a night. The majority of the women play 1-2 games a month, and maybe 5 hours of computer games a week. Course, my wife tells me she can't talk to me because she's about to go camp a spawn, and hangs up the phone. So I'm happy. |
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Oct 16 2006, 05:49 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Moved to General Gaming since it has lost any meaningful connection to Shadowrun.
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Oct 19 2006, 03:10 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Heh, I watched Mazes and Monsters a few times. Later I found it on sale at K Mart or somewhere and I mailed it as a joke to an owner of a FLGS. I guess I've just been unlucky in terms of not encountering female gamers if what you're saying is correct. I guess I'll just have to hope to be more lucky in the future. Thing is, it's hard enough as it is to find people to game with in the first place...that in and of itself is something I have generally had difficulty doing, especially now that I'm in the FSM where nobody games. |
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