While I'm usually a Shadowrun GM but for a change of pace I'm running a forum game on an anime board. It's my own little simple game system and it's the sort of game where last night many players were fighting for their lives.

Today: beach party.

Also I should warn you the board in question is rated PG.

Anyway so my problem is that the male/female ratio is getting off. Too many girls. And these are younger players, so they're a little shy and emo. I'm having to work to bat them together since it's supposed to be a social game.

Anyway there are a lot of experienced, confidant, male players around here. So what I'm looking for is someone who I can use like a social homing missile.

As in I could say (or better yet not have to say), OK we've got a sad catgirl in snow over there that's being ignored. Go get her.

You'd probably be bouncing from person to person, or if you can accumulate a harem of PCs than fine.

It'd be nice if you'd be up for being used to advance the plot as well.

It's already a large group so I'm just looking for one person who could log in multiple times a day (because, really, this should be fun, if I wasn't the GM I'd already be doing it). Obviously liking anime is a plus with this crowd, but not required.

SR3 or 4?
some info would be needed as to what kind of game too

My own little system. (hence why this is in the general gaming board not the SR board). It's extremely rudimentary.

For example combat is resolved by a single roll that determines the victor and the degree of success maybe with modifiers based on tactics used. The player is then free to describe the action in the full fight as they see fit. Thusly a fight can be resolved in one or two posts and one roll instead of many of both.

You're poaching DSF for alpha males to molly coddle anime fangirls.

God bless you sunnyside, god bless you.

What's the uh... setting?

LOL

I'm totally down for this. For one, I almost busted an organ reading this topic. For another, I believe it is a worthy cause for any roleplaying geek to lend a hand to training the next generation of gamer girls. Shit, I might be able to drag the daughters of some of my older friends into this. Mwahaha.

say sunny, you don't happen to work for some bigger federal bureau that has decided to do certain investigations by chance?
also: i would probably be a good fit . . but as i am over here in germany, their sleepy time most likely does not match up with mine *g*

First of all at the moment DocTaotsu is trying to jam his whole leg in the door in regards to the spot, so he might get the first shot. I've already gotten like eight PMs from him on the matter.

You know what they say. The early bird gets the catgirl in the miniskirt. Or rather that's what they should say if they actually want to get us out of bed.




Actually the RP is packed with people as it is. I already got authorization to start a second thread if I can get a second GM. So if you can bring some more girls and could GM yourself or something we might be able to do that. Just same game style and same world. Just another island over or something...

Maybe Stahlseele could be your DSF alpha mole.



Actually these people are from all over. Or at least their posting times are.

And no I'm not secretly Chris Hansen. Though it would be awsome if he was a Shadowrun fan. He could do cameos at cons. Just when the runners think they've pulled off the job the GM walks out and he walks in.

"So. What were you planning to do with that prototype there?"

"Uh. We just, you know, were transporting it for the company. We'll, uh, just finish putting it back where it belongs."

"Now see in these logs from their server it looks like your had to hack into their system to get the doors open. Isn't that odd for a delevery?"

*Troll makes a break for it and gets hit by eight tasers just outside the door.


To Catch A Shadowrunner

Ok. I'm totally adding that into my SR campaign at some point. You know people would buy those trid recordings.

GM for a bunch of catgirls? XD, that might be an interesting adventure. Not sure if I'll have time for it though, I'm already running a game here on DS. What's the forum where the game is being hosted? I'll check it out and see how beefy a time commitment is required to run a game.

PM sent, don't spread it around.

Actully do we have any women here? IF we did maybe we could use them with seeding this. If they'd be interested is something like this.

so it won't sound like a bunch of horny older guys trying to get young girls interested in certain kinds of roleplaying? O.o
i think there's two or three around here at least . . i won't name any names, because god knows around teh intartswebs there's no way to be sure of a name . .

If they're here, they probably aren't so young.

Mostly it would be for game balance in the male/female ratio. But also a bunch of players to start is kinda need

yeah, i saw the poll about age . . really old men around here . .

A few years ago I played in a Big Eyes, Small Mouth campaign for which my daughter was the GM.(?storyteller?) One old guy and a bunch of cat/dragon/wizard girls, with a couple of young guys drifting in and out. It was surreal. I had a GREAT time. Yes, as the girls approached their twenties, they stopped looking like girls. Fortunately, they kept feeling to me like my daughters.

Peter

You need another? I'm on late or early, depending on your time zone, but hey, we seem to answer enough of one anothers posts that it can't be too far off. Give me a holler if you want me.


Isshia

Anyway, I checked out the site and some of them are actually pretty good roleplayers with a decent maturity spread. I was afraid it was gonna be swamped with twelve year olds, but some of them are actually older than I am. I never really got into free form games, but I think anime rocks, so I might sign up for one of the games there when I'm less busy.

Well, maybe I do need someone again. Doc was all excited and then he kinda vanished. *shrug*

Shoot me a PM.

Remember you wouldn't be a regular player entirely. A bit like a mole. Again for runners I figure being a little undercover shouldn't be too hard a mental leap.

And it helps a lot if you're on oftenish. Especially in the timeframe right after I'm posting this.

So if you think you're up for it contact me fast.

Cantankerous is making a move.

Honestly I just want someone to come in who has what it takes.

I may seem a little impatient here, but fraggit I've got sad and lonely anime girls on my hands here. And the emos I'm getting on that board just aren't cutting it. ( And social interactions with the GM don't count. That'd be like going to the dance with your dad or something.)


Think like this:
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u201/Ke...rthingimade.jpg
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/1929/11390241424904me.jpg

can't believe you're still having this problem O.o
i'd have expected people to jump at an Opportunity like this o.O

And from PM


Quod erat demonstrandum motherfragger.


Though for the record at this point I'm not even being picky about just having one of you guys there's enough to go around to keep two of you busy I think if it happens to be that way.

This is unreal. I just had the wildest damned day I've had in months, and it may now get worse in the future. To top it I had a looong detailed character write up, but not boring, intense stuff a GM or other players could really use and the damned forum there DUMPED IT in the process of posting. Just my damned luck today, really. I'll try it again tomorrow and see if I get luckier but wow, what a weird, shitty day.


Isshia

Real Life is making demands of my time again, as such I can't Alpha Male out in this game. Soo... yeah, I vacate the position for anyone else who wants a harem of nubile young anime girls...

In snow.

So only Isshia has the stones and he lost them today or something.

I'll admit to also being surprised this has taken so long. I suppose a lot of DSFers don't go to the General Gaming Board. But I think GGB guys are the sort I'm looking for anyway.

GGB?
i'll go and register there tomorrow, as that is my free day of the week and i actually have time for something like that

GGB=General Gaming Board

I've got krayola red in. We'll see how well he does. A second from here would still be OK. I think one of the AF forum guys dropped.

i'm trying, waiting for the registration completed link email <.< . .

Still interested? It's looking like I could use a third there.

yes you can.
looks like an incoming trainwreck for me, both on the personal and work side <.<

As a poster it really doesn't take that much effort. Heck you could almost copy past some of my suggestions to get you started, and i bet you could just run with it from there.


On a side note, out of context quotes from the game

"You don't have to let the girls rip off your clothes." Me as the GM to one of the players on what one of the PC catgirls was doing to him.

If things really go downhill, i don't know if i will have access to computer/internet for some time.
if i canw ing it, everything will go just as planned and you won't even notice any difference . .

Ouch, good luck with that. Losing net access sucks.

Well, you know how it is in the modern world. So busy.

*Comes in yawning in nothing but his boxer-briefs*What's all this about now? PG is good, just managed to pin down a girlfriend, so fades to black would be great...but I think I've pretty much solidified my rep as a flirt on here...

:o

I dunno what got that face, me with a girlfriend (which isn't that uncommon, been in pretty much back-to-back relationships this entire millenium, so far) or me "pinning her down"...

I'm sure she looked lovely when she started showing up on the six o'clock news and milk cartons...

Heh, ask her, she posts on here..."Portia Opfenheimer?"

dude, she reads this, you gonna get in trouble, you realize?

Heh, just because I'm playing a potential love interest for some girl in a game? Hardly, my girl's a gamer too, 'swhy she's here, and a great one to boot. I got no worries.

I knew a real person named Portia back in high school. I was really attracted to her and I guess we had good conversations, but seeing as I was a gamer that's as far as it ever could have gone.

You know maybe more people should run games like mine.

I've been shocked and appalled at how shy gamer (and anime fan) guys are EVEN WHEN POSTING ONLINE. I mean the woman isn't even there and you can take all the time you want writing a post or PM.

Though maybe I shouldn't complain. Tides of guys who were socially inept is probably why my fat dorky ass has had so much luck with women.

Of course now that I'm married I don't care about odds and we need a new generation of little gamers, so I'm happy to help.

I.....don't understand the problem.......confusing......

You mean from the OP?

I'm running a different sort of RPG where about half of the focus is on characters RPing with other PCs.

It features a bunch of females and some guys. All suffer from too fragging much shyness for a forum game. And some of the guys have crippling levels of this. Plus there aren't enough of them.

People tend to pair up boy/girl it's hard to maintain any other group than that.

Thus lonely girls.

I wanted DS guys to fix this problem.

So far, pretty shacky results. Apparently shooting people in the face on the tabletop for years does not translate in being able to go up to a girl and flirt with her.

Bringing in DSer #4 and hoping for the best.

Well, yeah. I can't flirt because it gives me this uncomfortable feeling, a combination of feeling self-conscious and socially out of line. It's easy enough to talk to anyone about any number of topics, but trying to flirt is more stressful than going and participating in a job interview.

In most conversations you can if nothing else follow a certain logic to see it through. You can insofar as it's possible try to approach it like you're on the other person's side. You can project sincerity from your heart and genuinely seek to accomplish what you need to accomplish while at the same time doing everything you can to treat the other person fairly. This method is the fundamentals to getting through any number of difficult and sticky situations.

But with flirting, what the hell can you say? Whatever's going through your head is pretty much ultimately not socially acceptable. What is the true essence of what you're trying to communicate? "You're attractive, you possess a degree of charm from what I can ascertain in our limited interactions, and I'd really like you to do something sexual with me." Or, "You're attractive, and I am at this time taken by your personal charm, and it would satisfy me emotionally if I had a sexy high-res picture of you on my hard drive I could set as my desktop background and stare at from time to time, as it gives me something of a thrill and a sense of satisfaction to see you." Or, "I have a sense of admiration for you due to various factors, and this leads me to wonder what you look like naked." I think it really requires being emotionally vulnerable to say that to someone especially since there's no practical aspect to what you want to communicate but instead it's just highly personal emotional content. That's a very difficult thing to come out and say with sincerity from the heart especially when you don't know how the other person would react.

So, I ask, how do you flirt? What sorts of things would you say? What ideas do you convey?

@ wounded Ronin

What you're talking about only applies for the simplest conversations. Say where you're trying to get a Big Mac or whatever.

But, say, take when you're telling a joke or sitting down to GM.

You don't say. "I'm hoping to make you laugh at my witty anecdote, and think I'm cool and funny" and when I GM I don't say "I hope to blow your fucking minds and have you complement me until my ego inflates like a Zeppelin"

No. Instead you just tell the joke and hope they enjoy it, or you run the game and hope it's awesome.


Same deal with flirting. And you aren't being any less sincere than when telling a joke or GMing. Well, unless you're trying to pretend to just be her "nice guy platonic friend". But if you're flirting right there shouldn't be that confusion.

Though frankly in regards to my game I wouldn't even require actual flirting. Any kind of interaction will do.

I'm not sure if a RPG forum is the best way to ask for advices about flirting. From my experience though, the most effective flirting is the one you do without realizing it. If you have to be someone different to flirt with a girl, she's probably not the girl for you... Well, a lot of men don't really bother about that... There's a lot you can do with neuro linguistic programming and other social "cheating" methods, but I don't want to expand on this.

Just don't stress it too much. Just casually chat, and if you want to mention how attractive she looks, don't hesitate to tell her, but don't make a whole scene out of this. That's at least valid for most of the girls I've met so far, but it might be a cultural thing as well so it might not work that way with the girls where you live.

i seem to have technical problems at home so i don't know if i will be able to post any time soon.
and work has blocked that site, but not dumpshock . . go figure . .

I.....it's just......girl gamers?...........females?.........someone....I just.......?

It was kinda cool, during those years I played with my gang of girls, playing a cute, redheaded girl and being hit on IC by a guy played by one of the girls. Role playing... you can't beat it.

Peter

What is this about?

Wishful thinking.