My better half attends Maesltrom simply for the dress up, drinking and socialising and in fact I'm the one that has to do the downtime for her because she doesn't understand it. If I'm honest she's not really into larp at all and bless her, suffers my hobby with a smile. I am indeed guilty of giving her "healer" skills but to be honest if I fell over she'd laugh, point and drink some more, playing the evil lady that she is. This would be partly RP and partly that she just doesn't understand the rules (read "want to" rather than "can't"). So in effect she would be a Sybarite(cenobite?) Girlfriend rather than a healer girlfriend.

Honestly, please don't go creating more bad things to throw at each other to lock down the whole PC "mustn't offend people by saying that word" thing. Play nicely.

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PD:- Dr/Cpt Heinrich Bellamorto - Pickled Surgeon
<sup>- "Shoot him in the eye, the face is for ruffians and amateurs."
- "I'm holding a pistol and I have a pocket that cries PARTY! We are NOT having a quiet one!"
- "Lovable in a Hitler kind of way" - Sass</sup>

EOS:- Jarn - Psychotic Runty Orc Beserker
<sup>- "Hello my Pretty Pretty...fancy some muddy cuddles?"
- "If we are what we eat, I could be you tomorrow..."</sup>

RL:- Pete Bridges - IT Mercenary and RA (special) Agent for Suffolk Mental Health Partnership
<sup>- "[LARP], it's not like drugs although it's probably just as expensive"
- "Yes, I snorted the Everclear and the Strawberry stuff with pips in"</sup>

You've got a point there actually - it rather implies the boyfriend hasnt bothered to help the new player generate a character based on what she wants to do. Incidentally, in some systems, I gather its 'mage girlfriend' or similar.

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It is not a competition. It is a web forum.

So while there is nothing wrong with being a "healer girlfriend", surely it's rude to use the phrase as a general descriptive ( like noob only gender specific).

The general attitude of the Healers' Guild in LT to the idea of being a "girlfriend creche" is that we regard it as a bit of a joke - we're even intending to have t-shirts referring to the concept.  But this is because we know that the guild is far more than that, and that by "fighter boyfriends" dragging their girlfriends to an event and sending them to the guild we have got some fantastic guild members over the years. And from a personal point of view, well I turned up at my first LT event playing the personal healer of the bloke I was with - 12 years later I'm still playing the same character, and I'm running the Healers' Guild.

Yes i've seen Healer/Fighter Boyfriend's (I intend to play one at some point in my wife's LT group) but Healer girlfriends are more common, simply becuase it is more common to find that if a partner has been convinced to come to LRP it's the boyfriend convincing the girlfriend. Thats not saying that boys are cool and girls smell just pure statistics. maybe we should call them healer partners. Or if the healer bit is offensive because it denotes them as being pointless bags of stats there to pick up the main player and insulting to real healers then we cuould just say "Non immersive character class with useful metagame skills" and make them Non immersive character classwith useful metagame skills partner. However that would be tieing ourselves up in politically correct knots over a nothing issue.

RL: Stuart Maher
PD: Stuart Maher in a frock coat
LT: Stuart maher in orange hi-vis
Omega: Stuart Maher in a rat mask
BUTT: Stuart Maher in various crap costumes
EOS: Stuart Maher writing plot

EOS - Book now, thank me later.

I was going to copyright my posts... but then remembered this is an LRP forum!

Hmmm, interesting, the acronym for that, "Niccwums", has pretty much the right tone for the implied meaning....

Could we be seeing the birth of another LRP slang term here?

Maelstrom - Thomas Blunt, Archon of the Apple Cartel (Until I can con someone else into doing it )

EOS = Izel, sacred mud elf

wow i wish i had that as a special ability, it takes me an awfull lot of work to get written off when playing, we managed it with some players in omega, who thought we weer the comedy drunks, but it would ahve been a lot more useful if more people had written us off i may have to find some girls to come so i can be written off as a fighter boyfrend so i can get som real underhand politicing done