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All I want is a single system for all special attacks.i want grapples, trips, bull-rushes and suchall to have one rule I can remember. A maneuver rule, with an opposed check. That's it.

Everything is is fine, within the lmits of house-rules.

Have you looked at the free adventurs on the Wizards' site? There are some good, short adventures for low-level characters. I am personally a fan of anything my Monte Cook (I don't remember if he did any low-level ones) or Owen Stevens (who even has one in a lighthuose, which might fit great).

Just swap out a few bad guys for your boggarts, and you should be able to steal a plot and maps wholesale.

These stories, in moldering old copies in my father's den, were the first thing that made me think about the idea of a STRONG female fantasy character. I carried that idea with me to my first DnD games, and if I hadn;t already experienced it I might have been driven out of gaming forever by a few unfortunate experiences.

I never knew there were more stories than the two I'd read. Getting these was like finding an old friend again. Thanks to you all. i could kiss you.

I’ve been reading these boards for a long time, but this thread actually convinced me to get off my cute duff and get an acount so I could reply.

I was introduced to roelplaying (not DnD originally, but a bad DnD knock-off) by a guy who just wanted to get into my pants. My parents loved him, so he and I had more time alone than we probably should have, and things went badly. Then I heard all roleplaying was satanic, and beleived it. My sample size of 1 was pretty convincing.

Then I met a wonderful woman who both played DnD and happened to be a witch. My parents hated her. But I liked her much more than the boy who went wrong )(who my parents were still trying to reconnect me with, despit my protestations). I never played with her, but I did spend a lot of time with her and began to think niether witches nor DnD were what I had been told they were.

Then I went to college. Suddenly, I had access to the tools to investigate these qeustions for myself. I’m now myself a witch, and as heavily into DnD as a girl can be and still have any kind of social life. (It helps that my girlfriends and our two boyfriends are also heavily into DnD, although the guys are also big-time 40k freaks.)

I very rarely run into DnD prejudice anymore. What I do still run into are bad guys who happen to play DnD and what to use it to get into my pants. Mostly I see them coming a mile away nowdays. Occasionally, one manages to charm his way into a game or event for a few weeks before his real intentions are claer. DnD isn’t satanic, not even close. But it is an activity that places an imbalance of social power into the hands of the Dm and better players with more powerful characters. People who would take advantage of you other ways may try to take advantage of you in a DnD game. It’s also a good excuse to get a girl into your basement.

Im only mentionming all this because I know some girls who think all DnD players are saints, as a backlash against the DnD is devil-worship crowd. DnD is a game. The people who play it can be wonderful (usually), or suck )occasionally), and there’s still some strong anti-girl atitudes and behaviour out there. So, as with any activity, you need to be cautious where you go, and with who. (Of course for people who don’t get into pick-up games with strangers often, this doesn’t apply – play in your own basement with your close friends all you want.)

Thanks for a forum that can calmly discuss stuff like this.