ENWorld women

[zenld]

As yet another male daring to believe he can add anything of importance to a female thread, I can only say, "Why don't any of you live near me?"

I played for years without believing women would tolerate gaming in a man much less play themselves. Then I met a wonderful woman who started playing because she saw it was something important to me. She then became utterly hooked. Even after we went our own ways (and yes we stayed friends, in fact she is my best friend) she continued to play in my group until she moved to another state. And now she wants me to start an online game so she can play again.

Now I do believe in female gamers. And my new tabletop game has an even mix. Made even more fun by the fact that I have only one person (male) who has ever gamed before. Its been fun so far.

I hope more women continue to join the game. What better hobby to have, and a great one for a couple to share. To all of you with gamer SOs, I will remain envious until I get my own.

[hijack]Masque, I am starting a d20Modern PbP within the next two weeks (the one aforementioned for my friend). If this is of any interest to you, drop me an email and I will send you more info. Same to anyone. I am not certain yet of how many players I will allow, but you can always ask. [/hijack]

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[Ogre Mage]

All the people I've ever gamed with in my entire life have been white. I do come from one of the largest centers of the KKK and many other hate groups, though, so maybe that explains it. (Yay Pennsylvania and the USA.) I am, however, trying to get my younger (15 yo) brother into it, and he's black.

This is a little off topic, but I am Asian and almost all the people who I've gamed with were white. I have been playing D&D for over a decade. The only exceptions were a mixed-race friend who I still game with, a black guy in my high school group in the early 90s and a (full blooded) black girl who played a few sessions in my college group and then dropped out. I've actually found people of color gamers to be even more unusual than women gamers. I have gamed with about 10-12 women in my lifetime. In 15 years I have NEVER gamed with another Asian person. Ever.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

In 15 years I have NEVER gamed with another Asian person. Ever.

[hijack]
I haven't experienced that as much, being Florida (especially South Florida) has a large multi-cultural base, there is usually at least some diversity. I would say by LARPing I encountered more diversity, but LARPing is a whole different animal itself.
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[Seonaid]

Oh yeah--

I've never DM'ed, but I'd love to. Three things stop me: 1) lack of knowledge of the rules, 2) lack of time, and 3) fear I won't do well. The second two don't really bother me, but the first one is a problem, IMO. ::shrug::

As for games, I believe that Endur might be recruiting for House Millithor in CotSQ (check my sig for the OOC thread). I dunno, though, don't want to talk for him. It's a great game though!

Edit: There's only three of us in Clockwork, Steam, and Sorcery, if you're interested. It's kind of slow right now, but I think that's mostly because there's only three of us. (A bunch of people dropped out around the time I joined up.)

 

[Julie]

Hey there!
Another female gamer here, as you can see by may name, avatar and signature. I'am 27 and have been gaming on and off for little over 5 years. My wonderfull hubby, Guillaume, who is also a gamer, introduced me to the game, I've been hooked since then.

I must admit that I had very bad prejudices about RPGs before starting to play, mostly because I had no idea what it was. I've always been interested by medieval fantasy stuff (books, art, movies, etc.) but now more than ever. I decided to try RPG table-top gaming because: 1) it was my husband's favourite hobby, 2) I couldn't stand knowing he was having so much fun without me 3) I couldn't stand not understanding what he was doing and why he was having so much fun.

I haven't gamed with many women. The first was friend of ours and an avid gamer, but we only had time for one game before every one went their way. The second was also a friend which we introduced to D&D (I personnaly started out with GURPS), but then we moved. The third was in more steady group, but it fell apart as everyone went their way, again. After than I've played with another group where I was the only female gamer. It lasted 2 years, but then we moved, again! I've played on and off as a single player with my hubby as DM over these 5 years and I'm now playing a PbP game with only men. I've tried only once to DM and wasn't very good at it, probably because of my lack of self-confidence . We've tried to start gaming with the local Grayhawk group, but they keep setting games on weekends we can't go!

I'm actually on the home stretch of my PhD in environmental sciences (biology ). I have a masters in oceanography (marine biology) and BSc in biology. I'm a french canadian, hey , and live in Rimouski (a small city in Eastern Quebec). I like reading, sports, gardening, painting, drawing, sewing, RPG games (PC, console, tabletop), games in general, none of which I have time to enjoy properly because of my workload. Gawed, I can't wait to be able to take my weekends off!

Sorry for the length of the post

EDIT: Oh, and I like girly girly stuff. I usually don't wear much makup, but given the occasion, I like to pamper myself. I like shoes, although I'm terribly hard to fit. I also like clothes, especially the ones I make myself, when I get them right , because they usullay fit me! However, my financial situation being what it is, I usually don't go shoping very often .

Julie

 

[randomling]

Ooh look! My thread came back to life!

Just wanted to say a big "hey" to those of you who hadn't posted before. It's nice to meet you all! I have an intro waaaay back on page 1, and there's been some discussion of the Girl Talk forum that I have on my boards. (Shameless plug coming up.)

We're women only, but we're not necessarily just for girl-gamers. To join, you first need to sign up for my boards (link in the sig). Then click on Usergroups, find The Girls and join. I have to approve you, but I'm online a few times a day, so if you check back in a few hours I should have you signed up. After that you'll be able to see Girl Talk.

Non-girls will be booted immediately, so please don't sign up if you're a guy!

(/plug)

On another note - seems to me like a lot of the women around here are either in academia, studying, or otherwise intellectual types. Cool for me - I'm in the last year of my degree and seriously thinking about postgrad work. I might even do something on the linguistics of RPGs...

 

[randomling]

*bump*

Any more ENWorld women out there want to say hi?

 

[CaptainCalico]

I think I posted here long, long ago, but here is an update:

As well as playing I'm running (as of 3 sessions ago). The group consists of:
My husband (Human Paladin)
Single/divorced male friend (Gnome Rogue/Gunsmith/Alchemist)
Female 1/2 of a couple (Human Wizard)
Male 1/2 of the same couple (Human Bard)
Single male (Half-Elf Psion)
Single male (Elf Sorcerer)

So far so good!

 

[Annakie]

I'm charming in late here, too but wanted to say "Hi!"

I'm a female, 28, and a gamer. I work in Network Operations for a small telecommunications company in the Dallas area, and I'm still single. I've been a geek pretty much my whole life, mostly a computer geek but started gaming a few years ago. I play a lot of DAOC and other RPG's... work on my house.... and go out with friends in my spare time, which there isn't a lot of.

I started playing beceause my guy friends decided to play after not playing since High School, but we only played a couple of times. Then a friend at work asked me if I wanted to play with him and his friends, so I started playing every weekend 2 years ago and now I'm hooked! I mostly play 3.0 but I'd like to try other things out, just never had the chance.

My gaming group is 2 females (one is the DM, one is me) and 2 males. I also DM in a pbmb game with all the same people I play with in the Sunday game plus two others (both guys), and play online in another game where there's 4 guys and 2 girls, and a male DM. I've played in a few other online games that never really took off, but I usually ended up beingthe only female in those games. I'd LOVE to play in an all female game just once, though.

 

[Seonaid]

I agree! It would be fun to be in an all-girl group . . . irregardless of my feelings about not being the only girl in a mostly-guy group.