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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5737824" data-attributes="member: 1210">The art, as always gets mentioned. 4e has been fairly good about this, dragonboobies aside, and there have been great examples of art that shows empowered females (as opposed to objectified ones) going back at least as far as 1e (remember the awesomely practical-looking female ranger on the cover of Dragon magazine?), though it definitely seems easier to find cheesecake D&D art earlier in the game's history.Keeping the mechanics even for females helps (no 1e-style "females top out at a lower Str than males" restrictions).What really helps is when the groups of gamers a prospective female gamer encounters are welcoming and don't come across like a bunch of socially inept potential stalkers. (While that's the exaggerated case, those groups do exist.) If a female gamer has to put up with constant clumsy attempts to hit on her from everyone in the group, she's liable to run out of patience very quickly, and it can really spoil her impression of the game itself.</blockquote>