Anyone ever play with a female DM?

[The_Warlock]

One of my best friends is female and has run several games, was a frequent GM during cons at her college, and maintains one D&D campaign that's been going on for at LEAST the last 16 years...So yes.

There have been others, but mostly just for one shots or Changeling LARP GMs...

 

[megamania]

I was about to enter "Yes" automatically then stopped. Many players but a DM? After about 16 years of playing I have only ONCE played when a female DMed. That is so....odd.

 

[Gilladian]

Does it count if I'm the DM? I've been Dming for about 30 years.

I've played with several female friends DMing for shorter term campaigns; several Call of Cthulhu, a couple DnD, and one Supers. They've always been great.

 

[DaveMage]

Never have. I would love the opportunity.

 

[SteelDraco]

I've had women in my games for most of my gaming history, but most of them don't have much desire to run a game. Currently, of the four women I game with, one doesn't have time to run a game, another doesn't have the confidence in her gaming skills, another doesn't have the interest, and the last doesn't think she's a very good GM. I'm sure she'd do a good job, and is the assistant GM for her husband. She does most of the bookkeeping for the entire group, making character sheets and doing all the treasure distribution.

The one woman I've played under ran a very hack-n-slash, old-school kind of game. It wasn't really my cup of tea, honestly, but that didn't have a thing to do with her gender - it was her gaming style. I ran a game with her in it for a while, but we didn't mesh too well that way, either.

 

[BlueBlackRed]

Played D&D with women, but never had D&D run by a woman.

Other games yes, but D&D no.

 

[kenobi65]

Yes. Just last night, in fact.

I've played D&D with quite a few women over the years (including my wife, and both of my former girlfriends). And, I've played with a number of female DMs, most of whom were pretty good at it.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Used to play DC Heroes with a female GM regularly. Good times, good times.

 

[Doctor DM]

Yeah I have, it was the Everquest RPG, and it was really bad. She was too focused on making her NPC's seem really cool, and tried to make it to much like a video game.

Not in a hurry to do it again. Allthough I've played with plenty of bad male DM's too.

 

[Glyfair]

Never in a campaign. Once I played in a sci-fi campaign (it might have been Fading Suns) with a female co-GM. However, the main GM was male (and no, there was no relationship, romantic or familial, between the two GMs).

I have played a few one-offs with female DMS, but that was a long time ago (80s).