Thursday

Mar. 25th, 2004 10:57 pm
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CVS had its usual writerly meeting, critiquing one of our members. I actually wrote a scene earlier today in something other than fanfic.The piece is based off a song I heard on Natalie MacMaster's beautiful "Blueprint" album, but I need to find ways to twist it further so it isn't just a straight retelling. (For those not watching [livejournal.com profile] wabbitseason, my fannish LJ, I've been writing pieces based on my user icons for friends, so far covering Babylon 5, Highlander, and Clamp's "Shirahime-Syo" manga. I still have X-men and Indy Methos/PW to write which will make my weekend interesting.)

I also talked to Jen about joining her new "Changeling" campaign, since I'm feeling the urge to do face-to-face gaming again. I listen to the current campaign and smile and nod a lot. In some ways, I'm glad not to have the emotional baggage, but another part of me feels a little left on the sidelines. I just need more data on the kith and their types. I listened to the initial descriptions. Eshu sounded interesting, but not quite where I wanted to go. Fox lover that I am, it would be too tempting to play a kitsune or its ilk. But on the other hand, I like the idea of playing a snarky noble manuevering things in the background. I'm just not sure whether I could play her in person.

Tina, was "Changeling" one you had played? Our GM is doing some tinkering, so hopefully we'll minimize the worst aspects of the game.
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[livejournal.com profile] havocthecat wrote a long interesting counterpoint to an article on RPG.net called Girls Don't Roleplay. She covered it more thoroughly than I could so my general reaction remains: WTF? I don't have to look any further than my writers' group for examples of female gamers and GMs. We even ran a fairly short-lived "all girls" super-hero RPG. The lions share of my online gaming experience have been female dominated. And god knows my friends list is filled by old school gamers.

TVShowsonDVD announced that the first two seasons of the 1980s cartoon JEM will be released on DVD in March.
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This afternoon I escaped from the deluge of thunderstorms that seem to be coming in great waves through our region by seeing X2 again by myself. Having now seen it twice, I've caught some more in-references during the scene with Mystique and Stryker's computer. My main annoyance was the movie theater opted not to staff the upstairs concessions stands and only start seating very shortly before the movie actually started. Fortunately I had put my jacket down to save a place. I only came in during the commercials before the previews. Still want to see Matrix Reloaded after I rewatch the first movie.

I had an absolute blast last night celebrating the various birthdays of my writing related friends with a bunch of their gaming buddies.

Gaming stuff )
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Inspired by friend and keeper of the dreaded quotelists, [livejournal.com profile] tinagilman, I went back and put together a scary list of my roleplaying gaming history. I didn't start gaming until I was in college. I discovered the local sf/gaming group on campus and later the local SCA chapter who also gamed after the meeting. Until I met the SCA group, I was usually the token female, although not always the only female character. You will notice a tendency towards different games, ones that may not be as familiar as AD&D and the White Wolf crowd. I tended to play "oddball" characters. I haven't gamed tabletop style since I came back to Virginia, although I have done several online games.

Games I have played:

Advanced Dungeon & Dragons: My intro to gaming. Usually played a cleric. *Very* low level of actual roleplaying involved, mostly hack and slash style gaming. And run away and flee the monster, but actually survive, which was my one success story.

Rolemaster: my first introduction to Tolkein's Middle Earth, other than the "Hobbit" animated movie. I played a bunch of characters. Since I was on a Mercedes Lackey kick at the time, some of the characters have familiar names, like the seeress named Selenay.

Champions: The superhero RPG. The main character I played was a Champions system version of Queen Projectra/Sensor Girl from the Legion of Super Heroes, known for creating illusions.

GURPS: Think this campaign was similar to Champions, though more conspiracy geared.

Shadowrun: The ultimate cyberpunk game, combined with a little magic for spice. Long running campaign that proved that picking an oddball character can give dividends.

Justice Inc: A pulp hero roleplaying game. Fun game, wish it had lasted a bit longer.

Timelords: A cool timetravel game which allows you to play yourself or even an alternate self. The only game I was actually brave enough to run myself a few times.

Vampire: Masquerade: probably 2nd edition. This was *way* before the other White Wolf games came out. Very very short existence as a Gangrel.

Star Trek: Even though I'm not a Trek fan, I found this game an interesting challenge. A *lot* of roleplaying in this game. I wound up playing the Communications officer, who through some *slight* problems along the way, wound up the first officer. *gulp* There's a button that explains it nicely: "Who died and made you Captain?"

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