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What an AWESOME resource! With a full-time job and three other outside activities, I need help getting the most out of my game time and mentoring new female players. This looks like a major time- and headache-saver. Can't wait to get a copy! THANKS, PAIZO!!! This is why I'm loyal to Pathfinder! :)

Kingwood Tabletop Gaming
*Play Games. Meet People. Newbs Welcome.*
http://www.meetup.com/kingwood-tabletop-gaming

Here's a question - do the games you replay have to be *unique* scenarios? There are some that I'm really into running (Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment, Stranger Within) and I've re-run them 3 or 4 times. It *looks* like they're creating GM Star Credit (not regular/player credit) but I'm not sure.
I've been hammering away at the GM Star Credits since getting my first one; I was the first woman in my group to earn a GM star, and it's been very exciting, so much so that I don't care I'm not levelling up characters - we're creating & filling tables and getting games run, and that's the most important thing some days, especially when we're running heavy on recruitment.
Mike, you need to come down to Houston to see what great things we're doing with developing women's gaming membership - plus, we have a great brewery: Saint Arnold's - Ales, IPA's/Double IPA's, hefeweizen, and Kölsch. I'm not a drinker anymore, but they're very popular with local gamers.
We have OwlCon coming up again in February, we'd love to see you!!!

Joe, you were one of the people who gave me a great start as a player here in Kingwood, we miss you tons and I know you'll be great in Arkansas, you Goblin-killer, you!

Does anybody know what the House of Thrune insignia looks like? It's not in the Scenario or the community use packages. I like to use visuals with my players, and I'd like to start giving them actual tokens and favors as a bonus that are tied to the adventure. I was thinking I'd like to make plastic tokens with the House of Thrune insignia on it, just like in the scenario.

Thank you, Dragonchess Player! I had to accommodate an extra player today and this enabled me to add a sixth! These were great, thank you so much.

Dear DM/Dudemeister,
Thank you for the advice, and I plagiarized your phrase about the NC-17. Thank god my group organizer backed me up, he is a very cool guy. Hopefully, I will be able to make it up to this guy with We Be Goblins, but I hope other parents out there can feel my pain & understand when you are trying to bring your kids to a game; even an experienced Mom may not be the best GM for your kid. Dammit Jim, I'm a gamer, not a teacher/babysitter/social worker/etc! ;)

Please advise on the suitability of running "Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment" for a 10 year old, in a typically adult group.
This Saturday, I have a guy bringing his 10 year old (neither of whom I've ever met and who have never before played Pathfinder, much less any other RPG) to the first campaign I will have ever GM'd.

After reading about the suicide haunt, the demon, and the finger-destroying trap, I feel nothing but repulsion at the idea of allowing this guy to show up unprepared for this module and as a mother of two grown kids, I don't know how in good conscience I can allow this. I really can't reveal the details to the father without tipping him off to the whole adventure, thereby ruining the module for him in the process (especially as a newbie). And even if I do, I can't take the risk of saying anything to him, because chances are like most parents, he'll pitch a fit and claim his child is special and 'very mature for 10' and 'sees this stuff all the time', and he knows all that already but wants to play anyway, how I just hate children if I don't let him attend.

I already committed to my group organizer to be the GM, I spent the last three weeks studying & planning, I have four other regulars signed up, and I just have no idea how on god's green earth I could edit this without gutting the whole module, and quite frankly, I don't think it's fair to the rest of us. I never would have thought I'd have to run a game for a 10 year old; we have never had kids attend before. This was supposed to be fun & productive, and now I just feel trapped in a no-win situation. What the heck do I do?