Tell me more about your gaming likes and dislikes. Do you play games other than D&D? Which edition of D&D? Are there books or supplements you're looking for? What's your favorite weapon/spell/magic item? Describe one of your favorite characters for me.

Oh man...you asked for it. INUNDATION.

First and foremost, I like ROLEplaying, not ROLLplaying. I don't like sessions that are mostly hack and slash. I spend a LOT of time making my chars with their backstories, goals, connections, etc. I do want my chars to be effective in battle (who doesn't like to kick ass) but I do tend to pick abilities based on background.

I have played long campaings(sp?) before. I've mostly played DnD (3.5 and 4E), but have played two Feng Shui campains, played a few games of White Wolf and a home brew (spouse made a game based on 1,000 Blank White Cards). I had a lot of fun playing the DnD and the Feng Shui, with the Feng Shui being more enjoyable because it's non stop silliness when we play (I played a Scrappy Kid/Japanese School Girl and a Smuggler/Samuel L Jackson type lover of noodles). White Wolf was fun but it is darker and no one DM has been able to pull it off long enough for me to really enjoy it. And I have never LARPed. Not interested.

Books I am looking for? Not really but I do like the artwork in a lot of the books. I'll be honest, we're asshole pirates. Most books, I can find. But fantasy artbooks for inspiration? Awesome. I love Tony DiTerlizzi's artwork for Planescapes. Actually, I love that setting, Planescapes. All the other settings (Ravenloft, Faurun) sound awesome. But when we play, we usually do homebrews :/ That was probaby super unhelpful.

Favorite Weapon/Spell/Magic Item: Ah...my favorite 'magic item' that was a joke I came up with was a 'vorpal sap.' I always talked about it and when I GMed, all my chars were afraid of saps they came across. It was ridiculous. Favorite item that one of my chars has had personally? Hmm...I don't think I've had many sweet magic items. I always get attached to more personal, 'mundane' items. My elf druid had a creepy ass mask made out of plant detrius that he made himself. He made them. My half elf rogue had a set of lockpicks that were hand picked by her over the years, pieces of bone, metal, knitting and crochet items, hat pins and needles all augmented by her to get the job done. Oh, well...when I was a wizard/bard, I made broomsticks of Mount so we wouldn't need horses. I used Rope Trick a lot as that char, and Lightening...kill of get the hell away when you have a few hit points. A player and I joked about making a Rope Belt of Rope Trick. I swear, it wasn't all shenanigans like this! When I was a ranger, I used...what the hell was it...the one where you make plants grow up and grab people. My druid once used Summon Animal to conjure up a monkey to help him knock someone out of a spell induced stupor (yes, the monkey flew through the air, landed on the person's head and went crazy on him. It worked).

ONE of my fave chars?! GAH! ONE?! **falls over**

Well...

I will say Tavera. Because she started off as a DnD char and then...well, I wrote a freaking book about her. A whole book. It's finished. That probably propels her above the others. I've had some great chars, very well received chars, but I never wrote BOOKS about them and their friends. I seperate book Tavi from DnD Tavi because well, I had to give her stats and what not, make her fit in the game so there was something lost in translation. She is a half elf rogue that grew up among humans. She had an Oliver Twist like upbringing for her childhood and was eventually rescued from a life of potential prostitution by her adopted father, Derk. She became a thief and after he initiation into a Thieves Guild, witnessed her father being taken in by the authorities. Per his request, she struck out on her own and made friends, became involved in various things and learned things about herself as her life circled back. She has dark, short hair that can make her look boyish, a slim frame, a mouth that borders on too big for her face, a pert nose and dark eyes. I played her with a British accent (think Mason from Dead Like Me). She always carried the gold ribbon from her initiation and her rosary as she is somewhat devoted to the Goddess the people in her region favor (it helps that as a poor, hungry child, the priestesses took her in many a time). She seems like an extrovert but is actually introverted. One of her ears has the point cut off of it, an injury from an old employer that ended badly. No siblings that she knows of, biological parents whereabouts unknown. I mean...I wrote a book about the woman.

**deep breaths** Whoa.