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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ivocaliban" data-source="post: 1552779" data-attributes="member: 17596">I've been table-top RPing for close to 15 years now. In about 90% of the games I've played I've been the DM myself. The few female gamers I've played with were of two types: A) The intense, well-prepared actress...who made everyone else (i.e. the guys) step up to the plate and be their characters rather than just rolling dice; and B) The girlfriends of other gamers who played simply because they were there and generally seemed fairly miserable and uninterested. I've known one of Type A and several (some I dated myself) Type B. That being said I'm sure there's a great variety of others out there, but I just haven't had much experience playing with them. To date, I've never known a female DM in person.However, I've known quite a few in Neverwinter Nights, though I rarely play that game anymore for a variety of reasons. In the respect of online playing I have to say that female gamers/DMs are far more common, or at least more noticeable to me considering the hole in the ground I live in. They're every bit as good, and often better at this sort of RPing/DMing than males from my observations. I really think that the world of gaming would be much better (for players, DMs, etc.) if there were more female DMs and gamers in general. The problem is that many people do look to RPing, at least at an early age, for social interaction that they're not receiving from the rest of the world. If there were females in more of those RPing circles it might make the divisions between genders seem smaller instead of greater (as playing in an all-male/all-female RPG circle can often do).</blockquote>

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