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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 1616396" data-attributes="member: 10784">But, in all seriousness, I've been gaming for a good 25 years now and have unfortunately had very limited experience with female gamers (and I'm a fairly normal, clean cut guy with a wife & 16 month old daughter)... the last time we had a female gamer in our group, she was the only female among a group of 10 people.  She was the girlfriend of one of the guys (they are now married).  I think 4 or 5 of the guys have normal social lives (girlfriends or wives), while the other 5 or 4 were, um, not used to being around women, to put it politely.However, we ended up really doing well as a group, as this woman (quite attractive in real life) kind of inspired the 'guys' to try to act heroically in game and to at least sometimes cut out the intraparty bickering and indecisiveness.  (nothing like looking indecisive in front of a babe) And, except for 1 test player that lasted 2-3 sessions, everybody treated her with a lot of respect, both in and out of game.  (the test guy probably had never talked to a woman other than his mom and made our 1 female gamer uncomfortable with his leering at her...)So, I'm sorry to see Chaos has a problem with her group, though, but I would have to say that every group is different and don't let one experience get you down & frustrated.</blockquote>