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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3745467" data-attributes="member: 22424">Role-playing has become a very common educational and team-building tool. Almost everyone is familiar with it, and large numbers are familiar with it by that name.Additionally, fantasy has had massive movie exposure lately, with the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Carribean films being so popular.So, there is absolutely no reason huge numbers of people shouldn't be potential gamers. The only questions are: can they be attracted to become actual gamers, and how should this be achieved?Personally, I think a huge amount can be gained by a fairly simple image during the marketting of the 4th edition. Of late, WotC have been presenting female gamers quite often in their marketting. However, it's generally been in the context of the 'token female' in the group. If, instead, their adverts include an image (or images) of a group composed entirely of women, or including a 'token male', that might go a long way to attracting women to the game.Or not, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it can't hurt, though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3745467, member: 22424"] Role-playing has become a very common educational and team-building tool. Almost everyone is familiar with it, and large numbers are familiar with it by that name. Additionally, fantasy has had massive movie exposure lately, with the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Carribean films being so popular. So, there is absolutely no reason huge numbers of people shouldn't be potential gamers. The only questions are: can they be attracted to become actual gamers, and how should this be achieved? Personally, I think a huge amount can be gained by a fairly simple image during the marketting of the 4th edition. Of late, WotC have been presenting female gamers quite often in their marketting. However, it's generally been in the context of the 'token female' in the group. If, instead, their adverts include an image (or images) of a group composed entirely of women, or including a 'token male', that might go a long way to attracting women to the game. Or not, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it can't hurt, though. [/QUOTE]

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