Cerise Magazine

March 2008 Issue

Features

• From the Editors
• Craft Check: Make Your Own (Easier) Miniatures
• Gaming in the Media: The Cutest Serving of Stereotypes: The NYT on Dating a Gamer

Interviews

• Industry Interview: Victoria Lamb

Articles

• Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Analyzing a LARP
  Author: Stephanie Pegg

Stephanie uses a LARP questionnaire to examine the questions "What do LARPers really want?" and "How different are men and women gamers, really?"

• Sculpting Player Expectations
  Author: Brendan Davis

Brendan shares tips on how to use Power Point to get players excited and into the campaign they are about to embark on.

• Women’s Gaming Group: First Impressions
  Author: Robyn Fleming

Robyn discusses her first impressions of her all-women gaming group.

Gamer Stories

• Becoming the Older Gamer
  by Melissa Velte
• Getting in Touch with my Inner Geek
  by Brandy Resnick

Reviews

• Portal
  by Stephanie Pegg
• Devil May Cry 4
  by Melissa Velte
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
  by Melissa Velte
• Retro Review: Star Fox
  by Abby Wilson

Odds 'n Ends

• The Back Page

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Welcome to the Back Page! This is where we publish the odds and ends that our readers send in, from artwork and writing, to shout outs, thoughts on gaming, and whatever fun and silly things we can come up with. If you have something you want to show off to the rest of our readers, head over to our submissions page and fire off an e-mail to us!

Rest in Peace, Gary Gygax

Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died at age 69 on March 4th. Regarded as a major influence on the fantasy roleplaying game genre, Gygax has already been memorialized on countless forum and blog posts around the internet. Rich Burlew’s Order of the Stick homage is particularly touching.

Bingo!

Reader and forum-goer Dove Arrow has prepared a “bingo” card for feminist tabletop roleplaying gamers to use. Here’s what Dove Arrow has to say about it:

Now, whenever someone responds to you with a statement like “But mostly men play this game,” or “Male characters are drawn topless too,” instead of feeling obligated to refute this argument for the 45th time, you can simply shout “Bingo!” and direct that person to Dove Arrow’s Blog About Feminism and Gaming. There, the respondent can read a carefully crafted refutation of their argument, as well as many others.

It’s that Time Again!

Yes, it’s time for another round of the LOLGAMER Contest! Think you’ve got what it takes to caption a truly awesome LOLGAMER? Want to win a super-cool tote bag of prizes? Check out the LOLGAMERS Contest Page for info about our March contest!