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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5945139" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I agree with those that say the game itself shouldn't change, because it both doesn't need and it doesn't help.</p><p></p><p>Gaming groups are the most responsible and eventually need to check their own behaviour on and off the table, if they care at all about gaming with women. Perhaps many gaming groups already start with a certain idea that "this is guys' corner", good for you but don't complain later.</p><p></p><p>My point being, someone should join the game simply because (s)he's interested in the game, but the social side of it is a damn important part of it! Otherwise you could just play a MMORPG. So you have to take care of your group's social identity... That's not a RPG-only thing of course, it's true with everything. If your bowling team, rock band or pub-crawling mob is all drunk-n-gross then expect to attract only drunk-n-gross people, not a literature professor or physics researcher.</p><p></p><p>The one and only thing the game designers can do, is check the artwork... how come nearly all the female characters are either hot, cute or otherwise creepy (sometimes all of these at once) and the male characters are much more normal (although there's many that are so exaggerately masculine that are attractive... for men!). Diversify the art, put more flat-chested or otherwise less-than-perfectly-slim women character, IOW more real women, so that your female gamer feels less guilty or threatened, and then put more male characters that women actually like.</p><p></p><p>Maybe a good starting point is hiring more female artists to do the artwork...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 5945139, member: 1465"] I agree with those that say the game itself shouldn't change, because it both doesn't need and it doesn't help. Gaming groups are the most responsible and eventually need to check their own behaviour on and off the table, if they care at all about gaming with women. Perhaps many gaming groups already start with a certain idea that "this is guys' corner", good for you but don't complain later. My point being, someone should join the game simply because (s)he's interested in the game, but the social side of it is a damn important part of it! Otherwise you could just play a MMORPG. So you have to take care of your group's social identity... That's not a RPG-only thing of course, it's true with everything. If your bowling team, rock band or pub-crawling mob is all drunk-n-gross then expect to attract only drunk-n-gross people, not a literature professor or physics researcher. The one and only thing the game designers can do, is check the artwork... how come nearly all the female characters are either hot, cute or otherwise creepy (sometimes all of these at once) and the male characters are much more normal (although there's many that are so exaggerately masculine that are attractive... for men!). Diversify the art, put more flat-chested or otherwise less-than-perfectly-slim women character, IOW more real women, so that your female gamer feels less guilty or threatened, and then put more male characters that women actually like. Maybe a good starting point is hiring more female artists to do the artwork... [/QUOTE]
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