I need to find a D&D game, preferably one that welcomes a 50+ year old woman who remembers the first AD&D fondly.

Just read the funniest thing on Ravelry, in a thread about a scary medical situation. The person had had an odd spot show up in her lung on an X-ray, and she was sent for more investigation. She was sent to a lung specialist for the official word. Said specialist was said to have, in the words of her PCP, "the bedside manner of Skeletor."

So she's sitting in the room, waiting for news. The specialist flings open the door. Thunder rolls over head (honestly, according to the poster), and the specialist declares, "Congratulations! Your body made a pearl!"

That line cracks me up. Apparently it's a granuloma, though what specific type is unknown at this time, whether it's an encapsulation of a thingie or a reaction to a fungus. But eminently treatable.

I want that doctor.

That's awesome, Connie!

Things I have learned today: two days in a row of patchy sleep and early-morning meetings render me incapable of thinking or writing until I go take a long nap. Thank G-D for working from home.

I need to find a D&D game, preferably one that welcomes a 50+ year old woman who remembers the first AD&D fondly.

Me, too. If we lived in the same area we could start our own game and recruit others.

A Buffista D&D game would rock.

I was playing D&D in mid 70S. Don't remember which edition. Had a ranger name "Token" (as pun on Tolkien) which seemed funny to my 16 year old self.

I don't really know how to play D&D. I mean, I know the basic concept, but I wouldn't be able to just sit down and play. (There's a store around the corner from me that has weekly Magic: the Gathering games, and it seems like something I might enjoy, but I don't know how to play that, either. When I was in middle school and high school, there were a few boys who played, and I asked them to teach me once, but their rule seemed to be "No girls allowed (unless really hot.)" (There was never a girl they considered really hot who actually wanted to play with them, but they were keeping the option open.) I suppose I could learn now how to play, but I don't really know where to start.)

I've played D&D before but I liked Shadowrun better (cyberpunk future with magic).

Turns out I have a warning on my file at Rite Aid so now I have the other prescription. Hopefully I'll feel better. And I keep feeling bad and I've been wanting to get a chromebook or tablet and someone returned a chromebook so it was discounted pretty nicely and I went with it. I don't know if it will really make me feel better but so far it's interesting.

I'm not really interested in science and medicine type things, I don't think. I'm not sure what I want to do with my life and at 41 I should know, but I'm seeing co workers (and customers) start or return to college and there's no desire for that right now, But maybe it's just me feeling icky,

I've played D&D with buffistas and it was indeed super fun!

Thankfully my fretting last night was not harbginger, surgery went very well, worst pain right now is my throat from the ventilator tube! Got a backup pain scrip in case the oxy make me itchy and nauseous but so far no problem. Enjoying a coconut milk, frozen blueberry and banana smoothie while strapped into ice machine btwn rounds of cpm machine. I might subject my mom to arrested development because in spite of all the things we decided we both wanted to watch, right now I want arrested development. Hahahahah.