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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 2088407" data-attributes="member: 4910">Three, with the possibility of a fourth joining in the near future.  Hard to quantify - it's varied depending on what was being played, where, and when.  VtM games at the FLGS saw many female participants, whereas Cyberpunk games tended to see fewer, for example. They don't, frankly. Depends on the player.  I've met my fair share of woman gamers who were more interested in roleplaying; likewise I've met my fair share of women door-bashing, asskicking bubblegum-chewers.  Neither.  It varies with prefered playstyle rather than with gender. Nope, I do not feel that way.  See #5, above.  Seriously?  Honest, and for true?  Hygene.  It's been my experience that women are less prone to scruffy basement-troll syndrome, and that most SBTs tend to clean up at least somewhat if ladies are present.  Exposure, stigma, etc, etc.  Part of me wants to say you're gunning for the old "malecentric aggressive power fantasy" saw, but whatever.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  I'd say they do, in part due to the lack of attached juvenile power fantasy stigma mentioned in #8.  You can have a munchfest VtM game just as easily as a D&D one, and vice versa, but the traditional association is still there to be overcome.  F.A.T.A.L.?  But frankly that should be devoid of players, period. Nope, I do not.   I have not played in an all-female group, I have played in a mixed-gender group, and I have played in an all-male group.  Some are drawn into the hobby thru association with a male gamer (familial, or romantic).  Others are drawn in thru other avenues, personal interest, interest in a related hobby such as wargaming or computer gaming, etc.  I have not personally met a female gamer who took up the hobby because she wanted to get to know a boy better romantically. Yes, one, though said break was not related to the game itself.  I do not feel that way, no.  Varies from person to person, male and female.   That has not been my experience, no.   Yes, in so much that the approach of one male gamer is different from another male gamer.</blockquote>

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