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April 30, 2008
Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress
I read a couple good reviews for Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress: A Girl's Guide to the D&D Game when it was released, and despite not being it's target audience, I figured I'd give it a whirl so I tossed it on my library hold list.
The other day the library told me it was available, so I walked over to the local branch at lunch.
The author (Shelly Mazzanoble) set out with noble ambitions - to dispell (or at least refute) some of the gamer stereotypes surrounding RPGs in general and D&D in particular, and to provide an easily digestible introduction to a pass-time that can certainly have an intimidating and difficult learning curve.
After reading about a third of it, I skimmed the rest before putting it on the "to-return" stack the following afternoon.
When I say I'm not the target audience, I mean that in pretty much every way possible. Not only am I not a girl, I've played RPGs for over twenty years, so you should really take my comments with a salt-lick sized grain of salt.
I'd be curious to hear from someone who is in her target audience.
Anyone?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Posted by dberger at April 30, 2008 1:24 PM
Comments
The place to ask is ParentHacks.com or blog.wired.com/geekdad. The latter is full of dads who'd give their two cents as a fellow adult watching their daughter read the material.
Posted by: Steve S. at May 2, 2008 8:20 PM