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I’m a thirtysomething dad and IT professional living in the Austin, TX area. I started gaming way back in the day, 1982, with the TSR space opera game Star Frontiers. Since then I've been an avid roleplayer. I went to 5 Gen Cons, was a regional Triad for the RPGA's Living Greyhawk campaign, helped start a gaming club (the FORGE) in Memphis, TN, et cetera.

I GM and play a variety of RPGs; currently Pathfinder is in heavy rotation as well as various non-D&D-based games.

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Dec 14	revised	How to roleplay a PC torture scene made more l5r friendly
Dec 14	comment	How do I make my role playing group a not exclusively male one? See above? There's generalizations that apply to everyone, and then generalizations that purport to apply to one gender. I just stuck to the former.
Dec 14	answered	How to roleplay a PC torture scene
Dec 14	revised	What game system is best for playing Fallout on the tabletop? added 93 characters in body
Dec 14	comment	How do I make my role playing group a not exclusively male one? @HedgeMage that's stuff I think falls into the "individual" bucket. I've had girlfriends whose slovenliness has made me aghast. There is a lot of advice which is probably good from the "65% of women are this way while only 35% of guys are" angle, like clean vs dirty, assertive vs shy, compliment vs criticize, combat vs roleplay... But in the end, "Men are from Mars" advice is often decried as sexist and certainly generates endless debate, people chime in with "well I'm not that way..." In the end, your gaming group is only like 6 people, so you're best off addressing them specifically.
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Dec 14	answered	What game system is best for playing Fallout on the tabletop?
Dec 14	revised	How do I make my role playing group a not exclusively male one? added 167 characters in body
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Dec 13	revised	How do I make my role playing group a not exclusively male one? added 132 characters in body
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Dec 13	answered	How do I make my role playing group a not exclusively male one?
Dec 13	comment	How do I make my role playing group a not exclusively male one? +1 for "invite female players" - people try to make it a lot more complicated, but seem to skip that step.
Dec 12	comment	Does color spray affect undead? Yeah, in Dragon Magazine and other places there were some elaborations on the nature of illusions, but it depends on your game's theory of how they work (Mental influence? Actual visual construct?) as well as how undead see; on the one hand if an illusion is just a light sculpture there's no reason it shouldn't affect mindless things, but then again a skeleton isn't really using eyes to see either. In e.g. 3e "phantasm" is given a stronger technical description. More effective at higher level is supported by the rules; they note that higher level illusions are more "real" and tangible.
Dec 12	comment	Does color spray affect undead? Agreed - especially in 1e, your DM is always right. Other folks' agreement with the specific ruling has no direct bearing.
Dec 12	answered	Ninjas! Which games systems, or campaign settings focus, exclusively on subterfuge classes?
Dec 11	answered	How to create a D&D 3.5 player character race for Poison Elves
Dec 11	comment	Single Player Games This question is an exact duplicate of rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/792/…
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