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Well, not as old as a lot of you for although I wanted to game when I was 16 I was pushed away as it was a "boys only" game! Couldn't find any girlfriends that would play so I just kind of eavesdropped at the sidlines for a few years. Tnen as a single mom looking for cheap entertainment I found a group that gamed and now I've been involved for 18 years.
Perhaps she is intimidated by the sheer amount of information that you seem to be insisting that she learn. Maybe you need to offer to help her with the set up of a couple of scenerios and share your vast experience. It's just possible that she is afraid of lettng you down and overwhelmed by the task you have set before her.
I understand leaving scenes out due to time and budget constraints but to totally rewrite the story inventing things that didn’t happen to fill time or be creative is absurd, especially making Gimli the comic relief. I find Jackson’s interpretation of LOTR to be mediocre at best. It galls me to know that thousands of people will go through life believing Jackson’s version as the “true” story. Perhaps some people will have their interest piqued enough to pick up the books and read them but it has been my experience that most will not, thus giving Jackson credit rather than Tolkien. And that my friends is a sad state of affairs. As for giving Jackson credit for reinventing the fantasy genre, this is just not the case. For years the studios have been producing these types of movies, Excalibur, Legend, Labrynth, Ladyhawke, 13th Warrior, Highlander, Dragonslayer, Dragonheart, Harry Potter etc. so forth and so on, not to mention the TV series, Hercules: the Legendary Journeys (Keving Sorbo) and Xena: Warrior Princess, thus keeping the fantasy genre alive and well.. All Jackson had was a bigger budget and a lot more exposure. I’m also not saying that LoTR were bad movies, they have their points, but they were not true to the books. Just like “First Knight” was a fair movie, but it just wasn’t Arthur and Guinevere. Change the names and you have a nice little love story but base it on THE LEGEND and it flops.
I understand leaving parts of a story out due to time and budget constraints but then to invent scenes that didn't exist and change story lines to fill time, makes absolutely no sense. I find Jackson's interpretation mediocre at best. Perhaps exposure to the movie will pique some interest in the books and cause some to read it but it has been my experience that most will just see the movie. It galls me to know that thousands of people will now go through life thinking Peter Jackson's version of LOTR is the "true" story and that people give Jackson credit for the story rather than Tolkien. As for giving Jackson credit for resurecting the fantasy fiction genre I have to disagree. For years we have seen movies of this genre, Excalibur, Clash of the Titans, Ladyhawke, Legend, Highlander, Dragonslayer,13th Warrior, Dragonheart, Willow, Labrynth, Harry Potter, etc and so forth. All Jackson had was a bigger budget and a lot more exposure. I'm not saying that the movies were bad, just not true to the books. Just like First Knight, is a fairly good story, but it is not Arthur and Guinevere. Change the names and you have a decent Love story, base it on the LEGEND and it flops.
I wasn't even living at home when I began gaming, was a divorced mom of 3!
I'm here because several of the gamers in my group are here and said I needed to post here too. And I've noticed that female gamers are not the rariety now that they were when I first started gaming some 18 (OMG has it been that long?) years ago. Lucky for me I married a gamer so I've always had a group to play with. At first I wasn't accepted, just tolerated and as time went on, the guys realized I was just as good at gaming as they were. In fact they began to really listen to my ideas because I brought a different perspective to the table. Once,early on, when I got fed up with the antics at the table, always being the one to "cook" the meals or "seduce" the enemy, or other typical female chores, being treated as either the Bi**h or ho (and usually the B when I wouldn't be the ho) I complained to my hubby/dm. I told him I was fed up and was going to give them a taste of their own medicine. He said fine, so for our next game I rolled up a character, who had a VERY high Charisma. She was a total bed hopping brat. She seduced all of the other characters in the group, even causing us to be attacked, because the guy on watch wasn't watching his post (or maybe he was LOL). It was really funny watching them look at hubby before they would roll or make response to my character for fear that he would take it personally...he didn't, knowing that it is my character doing these things, not his wife. He even brought out his Sexual Combat sheet for the rolls. I gained a new level of respect after that game because they understood how they had been treating me.
Actually the game I'm in now has a player like this. Always hits, always does max damage, Blah Blah blah. Our DM figured out what was going on and set traps for the guy. Traps that take away life levels, strenth points, anti magi zones which destroy all of his magic items, treasure that is cursed etc. These things can knock a player down to managable size in no time at all.
In my opinion the best group will have
If you can only have 4 people then loose one of the fighters but the rogue should have some weapon skill and a fighting cleric (even if they can only use a quarterstaff) is also a great addition. My GM abhors Bards so I don't have a lot of exposure to them and if we don't have a rogue then the fighter is usually a ranger.
One of my favorite characters was a fighter named Brianna, who's mount was a bear. In all aspects of the game, I was required to treat Belagmal as a familiar. I was required to keep a character sheet on his stats, and when I was injured, the party had a lot of fun trying to rescue me as Belagmal wouldn't let anyone near me (protection mode) until they got someone who had been "accepted" by the bear to get to me. It was great having another "party member" who could fight with us and believe me that bear saved our asses more than once. Having a familiar also has its down side though as you have to remember to feed it and when it is injured, you feel it. Almost cost me my life once, going down in the middle of combat because my bear took a lot of injury.
If magic items are available at every street corner then that takes the "magic" out of those items. Magical items should be rare and hard to come by unless you desire a world that is entrenched in magical items. Thus the reason the items are expensive and treasured when they are found.
I've voted for homebrew simply because most of the worlds I've traveled to have been created in the mind of our DM. I do not like prepackaged, preset sceniaros or worlds as I find them too restrictive. Too many times, we as players have circumvented "pages and Pages" of preplanned activities. Thus to travel in worlds with 3 moons and pink skies is a true adventure.
Last night, I was talking to my best friend and she mentioned that she'd been flirting with a guy...my 1st question was "so what are his STATS? (not like typical females, asking so what does he look like, where does he work etc)
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