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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6156279" data-attributes="member: 2093">Right now, my face to face group consists of myself (female), my husband, my mother, and my best friend (also female). I've been almost exclusively our DM for the past 30 years... we play mostly DnD; right now we're playing an E6 version campaign of 3.5e. I'm also running an intermittent game of Dungeonworld online for my best friend (same female friend as above) and two guys (one of whom is my brother, the other of whom shows up about 1/3 of the time). Over the 35+ years I've been gaming, our group has ranged from having only me to having more female than male players. There was at least a 3 year span where the group was ALL female, excluding my husband. And he was only playing about half the time, at that point. Of course, I was attending a women's college at that time, so recruitment was a bit slanted in that direction!Women like to game. Women like to GM. The shortage of women in the hobby is more a reflection of the fact that many groups don't realize they're not making it comfortable for women to join them; they think of the activity as a "guy thing".</blockquote>