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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morik" data-source="post: 156554" data-attributes="member: 4235">Hello to all,I have a real proble with the mixed gender group I'm playing. Although I managed so far to offend no one it seems here is a clash of what female wants to play and males wants to have in roleplay.The group is fairly large: Three females: Klaudia, Cathleen and Sabine (age 41, 34, 26)Five males: Jörg, Robin, Rainer, Florian and Daniel (29, 40, 37, 17,16)ehm, I'm male and age 36. (why I feel the need to give away the ages? Odd me.)The females are really want to Roleplay and are happy without to much fighting. The females want to talk to other NPCs or PCs and love making decisions in a peacefull manner (something I like to).Klaudia has played DND before (with me and Daniel, Florian) but is not an experienced player. The other woman have NEVER EVER played DND or any other roleplaying product.The males are more to a good fight. There behaving like real gentlemen, though. No wonder. Klaudia is my wife, Cathleen is the girlfriend of Robin, Sabine is the girlfriend of Jörg.These group will come together for the first time, but I've seen some parts of the group already in some adventures (mostly my wife Klaudia with Daniel and Florian).I knew the others very well (Robin, Rainer, Jörg) for we have played as a gaming group for over 14 years!I assigned an adventure (FR Campaing setting) with two parts. The first will relay heavy on roleplaying where I think the woman will have the most fun. I have very put much work in detailing NPCs and the monsters too (all have names and histories, I even implemented the monsters in the region with histories, where they come from, if the locals know them, fights with the monsters before and so on). So they will be some fights as the story goes on.NO Random encounters at all (which I use very seldom anyway).This will hopefully be of some fun for the male players.Now to the second part!The adventure, as it comes together, will have a major fight with villians which were detailed and outlined in the first part (these monsters were encountered only for a brief moment in the first part and then vanished from sight, but the PCs learned form second sorces what part they will play in the story).This major fight I invented mostly for the fun of the males for I knew they will love it. But I know also that major fights in DND rely heavily on experienced players. At this point I would drown in rule explanation if I have to run the females too, because they are not knowing the rules for fight.So my take is to leave the woman out of the fight and only do it with the male players. I will tell the woman why I guess it's better I have the second part of the adventure with the males alone. But I will definatly let the woman decide wheter they want to take part of a great fight. But then they have to learn some rules first.For the first part I will not tell them all rules of DND. I will make some special charakter sheets with only the basics (Armos Class, Hitpoints, some vital skills or feats for the respecting charakters played by the female players and of course magical items or some spells (two to four spells, not more), and then the background of the charakters).I hope this approach will lead to a good end. I really don't know.What do you think. Will this sucks, have you some ideas for me to spare? Or do you played with this kind of mixed groups before and offer some insights on how to get along at best with this situation?(If you want I will tell you what kind of adventure I invented for these specific group - in a summerise, of course).Any remarks are wellcomeEric</blockquote>

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