Jokes and women

A thread of 2 messages, 16 November 1989 to 16 November 1989, in the order they were sent.

#711 Jokes and women

Mark Gellis · 16 November 1989

I was curious if anyone in the mailing list has women running as player
characters.  A few of my female friends run in my game world.  They are
often a lot more level-headed than some of my male friends who run.  I
was wondering if anyone had any comments on this subject.

Also, for those interested in cruel jokes to play on their players...

Androids can basically look like any humanoid, right?  And a good AI
program can give them pretty much any "personality," right?  The next
time you're bored, and want to throw a random encounter at your
players, let them run into one of the Chuck Jones/Mel Blanc cartoon
characters.  The android will be a lot smarter than your player
characters (well, most of them) and have a variety of neat, annoying
gadgets at its command (all from the Acme company, of course).  It
will also have a good enough Dex. to avoid being shot, at least the
first time.

How well will your characters do against Bugs Bunny or the Road Runner?
Think about it.


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#712 Re: Jokes and women

Brent L. Woods · 16 November 1989 · reply to #711

 In [email removed]> Mark Gellis writes:
 >
 >I was curious if anyone in the mailing list has women running as player
 >characters.

     Yes.  Well, I used to.  A while ago, we changed game systems and
GMs (we tend to do that periodically).  It's a fairly large group--four
women, five men.  We've ended up in some, ah, *interesting* situations,
too.

 >             A few of my female friends run in my game world.  They are
 >often a lot more level-headed than some of my male friends who run.  I
 >was wondering if anyone had any comments on this subject.

     Sure.  Level-headed?  Yes, I agree with that.  Also (at least in
the case of the ones I game with) *much* more vicious and bloodthirsty.
Straight-forward, too.  We have this one gentleman in our group who
tends to look for hideously complicated solutions to just about anything
(we all know someone like that, don't we?  :-) ).  Half the time he
gets his thunder stolen by one particular lady who gets tired of his
dithering (to tell the truth, she isn't alone) and does something
direct (like tossing a grenade into a room without worrying about
whether or not it's occupied).

     Now, is it just my particular set of female friends, or are most
(all?) female gamers (vaguely) like this?  I mean, level-headed, direct,
dangerous, and no nonsense.  I'm just wondering about *gamers*, too.

 >Also, for those interested in cruel jokes to play on their players...

     Oh, always...  ;-)

 >Androids can basically look like any humanoid, right?  And a good AI
 >program can give them pretty much any "personality," right?

     Right...  The possibilities are very interesting...  I'd better
not describe the Biff-bot, though...  :-)

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     Brent Woods

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