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[lurkerwithout]

The Vampire RPG was, of course, indeed instrumental in bringing a lot of girls into gaming at a certain time. I went to the Origins gaming convention in Columbus twice in the late '90s, and one thing that struck me was that the con was overwhelmingly male--and often sweaty, smelly, stereotypically geeky male at that--until after 5:00 when the White Wolf LARPs started. Then there were suddenly teenage goth girls in skimpy black outfits everywhere. It was pretty surreal. But I'm told it helped a lot of men with serious social and emotional problems have sex with a lot of women with an entirely different set of serious social and emotional problems, so that's good. Maybe?

Shaenon is wise.

Even for nerd counter culture Vampire LARPs attract a wide array of odd people. Fourteen year old rave-kid drug-dealers (heya Max!), would-be lotharios (hi Sam!), manic depressives (howya doing Ian?), fanfic reenacting man sluts (drop dead Roger!) and outright crazies (good to see you Mary!). Gods do I miss it sometimes...

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[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

Ah, good times, good times...

[(Anonymous)]

Do you? Do you really? 'Cause as nostalgic as I get about those days, I figure that if we kept tear-assing around like we did back then, half of us would be dead. Still, it was fun...