Jack Chick taught me that the Pope is really the Antichrist so now I incorporate Catholic dogma into my everyday life. Hail Lucifer!

I refer everyone to the Rollplaying Defended Gender Examined thread.

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in...

...yeah

...yeah

oho yeah hayaeah...

(cue the vibraphone... du du di du dah....[big time drugged out wail on the guitar])

Gods I love being old school...

[Will Smith] "You blew up the building, why?"

[Gene Hackman] "Because you made a phone call."

Awww, Dumpshock love.

Dude... Why?

Or you can pump them up with enough steroids to eventually form testicles.

But my question was more to the point of why did you have to bring up Blue Rose?

Oh, that douchebag. Heh.

You know, there are times I'm glad we don't have quite the smiley selection of other boards. The is expressive enough...

...ohmygod how did this get dredged up again?

Bewbs are gross.

Fortune! holy shit, i thought you died.

Thanks. I missed you guys much more than some of you deserve.

Fooooooooooortuuuuuuuuune!!!

Apparently I managed to necro Fortune in the process, so I don't think anyone is going to complain

Fortune, where have you been?

Sounds like a horrible Polish horror film.

Hmmm ...

NecroFortuna ...

That would be an interesting character name.

... or a decent canned seafood label.

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 ) 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.

Great, who exactly broke the Seventh Seal?

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

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...

Try to take most of what Hocus writes in the spirit it is normally intended ... tongue-in-cheek.

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....

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.

I'm not malodorous.

Who among us is malodorous?

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...

Bah! Girls love it when I talk about my panther assault cannon.

...What?

...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...

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)

No, that's a different night...

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.

Moved to General Gaming since it has lost any meaningful connection to Shadowrun.