Well my totally unscientific test has shown that girls actually quite like Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System Games, on the whole. However I have had to split this article into 3 parts given my propensity for waffle. For this article, as always, everyone has been given alias' to protect the names of the innocent, so we have Mr Chaos Space Marine, The Cursed. Both of whom are geeks of the highest order and of course my good self Frontline Gamer. However you don't want to hear about us grizzled gaming geek veterans. This isn't going to be a review but more of a discussion of how we found playing the Castle Ravenloft game as a group and what the two females of the group thought of the game itself. Right a brief description of the two unwitting test subjects:
Geology Girl
Level 13 Geek
Geology girl is a highly intelligent young lady who recently managed to get herself a first class Combined Honors degree in Geology and Archeology, you go girlfriend!!! So she's not short of a brain cell or two, which automatically puts her geek level up a few notches. She also has a thing for fantasy and science fiction novels, and is a fan of H.P. Lovecraft (good girl) so again there is some significant geek points too. Comic books I hear you say? Well yes she does indeed know about them and read a few in her spare time, geek factor level 15 by now. So how does she lose two points I hear you ask, well she doesn't like toy soldiers and doesn't play enough computer games. If she did play enough computer games then quite frankly she'd know just how important leveling up is. However a geek level of 13 isn't too bad at all and not to be sniffed at.
Dr Brainiac
Level 10 Geek
Things start off really well for Dr Brainiac, not only does she have a first class Honors degree in Political Science but she followed this up with an MA. and is currently coming towards the end of the second year of her PhD. so those boffin skills she's being working at give her geek credibility a damn fine start. However it gets even better, although she doesn't really want to think about it too much, she has clocked up an impressive amount of hours played on various computer RPGs, mainly Final Fantasy, Dragon Age, Oblivion that sort of thing. In fact while adding up the hours played on Oblivion it became quite apparent she'd probably have well over 1000 hours easily clocked. Yes things are going quite well!!! She also has a love for science fiction TV programs and quite frankly a worrying obsession with Starbuck from the recent Battlestar re-boot, which clearly has her soaring ahead to a level 20 geek quite happily. She even quite likes some of the toy soldiers I paint, but 'wouldn't want to play games with them'. So how does she lose so many levels? Well, a few days ago she asked me who Deadpool was... you know what? I don't think I've been more bitterly disappointed in a person in my entire life. Words fail me, I might even have sulked.
Castle Ravenloft as I unboxed it.
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