<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Michael J. Lowrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orangemike@gmail.com">orangemike@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Back in the day, I was the Wise Old Man (early 20s) who<br>
dungeonmastered for a bunch of high-school boys in the Nashville<br>
Science Fiction club. I was careful to put several traps into my<br>
dungeon which switched genders on their player characters, and used<br>
the results to do some consciousness-raising on issues ranging from<br>
menstruation to rape.<br>
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I take no real credit for the fact that one of those kids is now a<br>
multiple Hugo-winner (8 nominations, 3 wins, I think) who handles<br>
women characters pretty well.<br></blockquote><div><br>That's pretty awesome (especially the outcome - a Hugo winner, nice!). My first paid job was at a gaming store called The Game Preserve, and yes, I peddled dice, Magic cards, tarot decks, RPG books and board games to gamers for two years. Then again, I also had a compute in my bedroom by the time I was 10 and was raised by my father, so I suppose I have a little bit of a different "growing up" than some. <br>
<br>I haven't played D&D and whatnot in 10+ years, but every now and again I have a craving for pizza, geek parlaying, deciding who walks in what order into a dungeon and celebrating the fact that now I can buy beer legally and not have to beg the older kid in the group to go buy it for us. Sadly, out of my youth I don't know any Hugo-winners personally. <br>
<br>Perhaps we need to add a AD&D game into the mix after the netball game Kaldari, Pete and I were joking about putting together. Heh. <br><br>-Sarah<br> <br><br></div></div>-- <br><a href="http://www.glamwiki.org" target="_blank">GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia</a><br>
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