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LadyRolePlay Profile - Page 3 Go to Page (Previous Page - 1, 2, 3) Q: I understand that your daughter is a great role-player as well. Do you think we will be seeing more women RPG gamers in the future? ROLF, yes Megan is 10 years old and quite the role-playing gamer. Actually from what I can tell there are quite a few youngsters, by that I mean preteens, out there playing NWN online. I am just as likely to see her Halfling out front of some inn playing tag with a Dwarf. But once again you are running into the male-female mindset. The games she goes on? She could care less what level she is or what her stats are, she is there to interact and have fun. On a funny note; one persistent world where I have a fairly high level server stored cleric, well Mom popped in to start playing and behold, the character's plus one full plate armor and plus 3 morning star are gone- in it's place? An inventory full of dresses. Needless to say my daughter and I had a talk, plus got a magic bag for her to put the battle gear in. And fortunately also, I had an understanding DM, who replaced my stuff free of charge.
I think the younger generation of females is more OPEN to playing games, for sure, but once again for them, if some how that social interactivity is not stressed as a feature and benefit of the game, then they are not going to play them. Once again I see NWN, because of its multiplayer aspect, as sitting on a real mother load. One word of caution however; anyone who would have their child play online in any game. Please, please, please make sure that when they do there is always an adult nearby. Me or my son is always in the same room next Megan and so always aware of what is happening. There is just too much that can happen to kids these days, online and off line. Q: Can you tell us the one of the best RPG moments you've had playing NWN? This one is a very hard question for me to answer because truthfully there are so many memorable moments and games. To name one, I play in a game on Fridays, run by DM Kadarr, which centers on his world of Nurrana. In the game, our group runs across a strange little town, and when we enter one of the boarded up buildings, some townsfolk beg us to save them from a force of vampires headed their way that night. Our brave group of course, sets to the task, only to find out (and I cannot praise Kadarr enough as one of the truly innovative and creative DM's around) that the townspeople were, in fact, the vampires, and the others we had slain, thinking they were vampires were in fact a force or army sent out to eradicate the vampires in that small town. Now our Paladin had, in fact used her detect evil abilities, but unknown to her, those abilities are thwarted. So the Paladin enters a crisis of faith, or self-doubt, and goes into a steep decline. My character in this game is a little Dwarven Fighter named Rasha. And Rasha had been raised as a slave from young childhood by an Orc tribe, and made her escape and found this group, but mind, this character has no concept of any so-called ideas such as money or basic self-care, none of it. She only sees the change in the beloved Paladin and is pained by it, so one night goes into the story of how she had given birth to a half-orc, a baby girl, and knowing the life of the child will be as brutal, if not more brutal than her own, kills the child, out of her very great love for the baby. Rasha says "sometimes I thinks my baby be blessin' me everyday, and sometimes I thinks she be cursin' me. Pally lady I just don't knows I just can't says." Then Rasha goes on to give her own simple view of life, that choices are not so clear cut, that we all stumble and fall. Being the Paladin is so goddess-oriented, Rasha goes on to say that people, all people are going to make mistakes, and the gods know this, and mayhap all they the gods really expect of anyone is to try their level best to do what is right, and that mayhap the role of the gods to help people to forgive themselves, nay the gods expect people to forgive themselves. Ahh… a story about failure and redemption and forgiveness, what could be more powerful than that? Tune in next week when we finish our talk with LadyRolePlay, for her expert advice on roleplaying, multiplayer gaming and getting into the best games out there… Go to Page (Previous Page - 1, 2, 3)
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