Game Mistress

Greetings to All Gamers and Writers, Especially Fellow Ladies! (from long-in-the-tooth female GM who plays *gasp* Dungeons & Dragons on paper!)

@PajkaNight I'll have to keep that in mind, an embarrassment of pandas. It makes me think of a group of pandas blushing after getting caught doing something they didn't want to be seen. That, and your hiding hider is a hoot.

I have to admit that I've enjoyed Dungeons and Dragons because of the people I've played with, and the settings for the games, the plots. I have a soft spot for gold dragons, my own opinion about how magic should be run in a game/story (but I understand why they have the rules the way they do in the game system). I've also enjoyed taking it out of pre-made settings and instead just using what I wanted in a completely original world or tale.

That's kinda how I work, "Take what you like, change what you need, and just leave the rest behind." Needless to say, I'm neither a statistics or rules lawyer.

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@CAS I think discussions on the game should be PM (feel free to PM me at your leisure). Who knows, you may have another person want to play the same scenario, and no only would I want to let them in on possible spoilers, but their session may be quite different.

And thanks for the welcome! :-)

Greetings to All Gamers and Writers, Especially Fellow Ladies! (from long-in-the-tooth female GM who plays *gasp* Dungeons & Dragons on paper!)

@tobiax I'm up for a one-shot. I've found it helps me shake out an idea to see what works, what doesn't, and modify it from there. I can sling around a few ideas if you don't mind something in the fantasy genre, which means we could set it in any historically inaccurate time (sorry, I have neither Krynn, nor Forgotten Realms maps emblazoned on the backs of my eye lids).

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@CASI'd be game for your Idea 1 - I rather like the idea of characters doing scouting, recon, and general investigations as to what's going on. It's been a long, long while since I played in a scenario that was wonderful in its simplicity, i.e. here's the problem, go see if you can start figuring it out, rather than dealing with complicated politics right out the door.

Greetings to All Gamers and Writers, Especially Fellow Ladies! (from long-in-the-tooth female GM who plays *gasp* Dungeons & Dragons on paper!)

@tobiax Gathering, Gaggle, Murder (which is used for crows), Pride, Tribe, Pod, they'd all work. :-) Clump works, too. Kinda makes me think of atoms, and how they clump together, and the clumping keeps going until the universe.

Greetings to All Gamers and Writers, Especially Fellow Ladies! (from long-in-the-tooth female GM who plays *gasp* Dungeons & Dragons on paper!)

Howdy! Howdy! Hopefully this introduction finds you all well. I must admit, I fear that as someone well over 20, with a degree, and a full-time job, I may be the oddball up here. Yes, I'm of the "older set" who watched Star Wars: A New Hope at a drive in, and cut my teeth on Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. I hope this doesn't detract any interest. *look of concern* Honest, I did happily escape from a cubicle farm, and am now living the better life at a university.

As the handle says, I'm a Game Mistress (as opposed to Dungeon Master, or Game Master), and I've had the exceeding good fortune to both run regular table-top games for friends over the years, as well as one-shots at gaming and sci-fi/fantasy conventions. I've also written collaboratively over the years with some great folks, and have even seen one work become an e-book (though I still desperately want to re-work it).

Sufficed to say, I work full time (though I get a lot of down time), am married, have a school-aged kiddo, a dog, and two house-rabbits. We are not "normal" at all, being that we're the kind of folks who go to opening nights for Marvel and LOTR movies, are members in a "maker/hacker" group (think 3-D printers, etc. built from scratch), and *gasp* I've given a bulk of my Star Wars stuff to my kiddo to play with; I didn't collect for money, I collected because I liked something.

So, as I said, I like fantasy stories and role-playing games, adore Sir Terry Pratchett's work, as well as Neil Gaman's writings. I've been a fan of Doctor Who since Tom Baker, and I'm thrilled that all sorts of fandoms are up and running on Tumblr (I remember when all we had was typed newsletters and fanzines). I like anime, though I'm far from current on it due to just sheer lack of time to watch the stuff (if it's not Studio Ghibli, or Ghost in the Shell, I probably haven't seen it).

And I just write.

(good to meet you all!)