Name: Bronwyn Beistle

Email Address: bronwyn.s.beistle@hotmail.com

Dice:  I keep trying to get a special set of dice for each character, in their colors.  Zara (my paladin's) dice are red and gold. Kaelin (my holy liberator) has a set that's speckled red and blue on black, and a set that's green and gold.  Etc.  It often doesn't work, b/c I'm superstitious about dice and stop using them (at least for the time being) when they're on a really bad streak; at that point, I generally grab for whatever die has the right number of faces.

There is a wormhole in my dice bag through which they escape to a dice-ruled dimension and lead uniquely dice-suited existences.

My Drink: Izze fruit sodas or Coke

Pizza Preferences: Pepperoni (w/hot peppers, if possible)

Game Days: Fridays and Saturdays

Special Qualifications: 

My D&D Specialties: Tanking

Skills: Ummm....being really geeky?  I can recite lines from The Omega Glory...

D&D Bio: I started playing AD&D in the late eighties, jumping into an already longstanding campaign with some friends of mine from high school.   The campaign had kind of ground to a halt before I ever got there, and  the attempt to resurrect it was an astounding failure (ask me sometime about spending twenty-five minutes of game time trying to  throw myself through a magical wall so I could get to the next level of the dungeon.  The DM did not believe in stairs or secret doors). Despite  this unpromising  beginning, I leapt immediately into the next campaign available when the first one finally collapsed.  It was a lovely campaign, and very unusual:  a female DM and only two players, both women.  This was my first "tank" character, Lythande, a cleric/fighter, 18/91 strength (which I actually rolled, legit; having done so, I was not inclined to let Mr. Gygax tell me a female character couldn't keep that stat).  The main thing I remember about Lythande is that she once dove into a pool because something was moving at the bottom, and she wanted to find out what it was.  When she discovered a naga at the bottom, her response was to wave at it.  Luckily, it was a neutral naga, and merely rolled its eyes at her.  She also sang "Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, when you gonna let me get sooo-ber" quite often.  Sadly, she died fighting Lolth along with the rest of the party (my first TPK.)  When I started hanging out with Jan and Nick, I briefly played a character in one of Jan's games.  His name was Ernie, and he was based on Ernest Hemingway; he spent most of his time drinking beer and talking in monosyllables about fish.

When Nick restarted the Gaia's Dream campaign in 2001, I was delighted because I'd already heard a lot of the story from both Jan and Nick, and liked it.  We had the most kickass multi-year gaming experience you can imagine, which you can read about in the Heroes of Falgenor logs if you like (I was Kaso.)  Kaso was a character I initially based on the goalie Patrick Roy (he twitched and talked to his sword), but he grew to be my most fully realized and inhabited character--one day, we were driving to our friends' house to game and talking in character, and, for a second, I thought "What am I doing here and what is this weird machine?"--and forgot how to drive. True story.

I think that says something good about Kaso and the Heroes of Falgenor branch of Gaia's Dream, but it might just say something scary about me.

The Heroes of Falgenor 2001-2005

Falling Stars, Rising Hope 2001-200?

Azarr Kul's Ambition 2007-200?

Campaigns completed or in progress (as player):

Living Greyhawk (Geoff Region)

My Gaia's Dream Character(s): Kaso, Zara Oberwald, Kaelin