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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 2088555" data-attributes="member: 4">1. How many female roleplayers do you have presently in your campaign(s)?Two women in four groups, but the groups overlap membership a bit.  2. Percentagewise, with how many females did you share your hobby in your own gaming history so far in comparison to the males?Probably 1female:4male.  During my early years my D&D group was all girls except me.3. How do female roleplayers change the style of play in your groups?They don't.  Maybe a slightly less crude form of table-talk, but ... actually that's more due to the presence of children in a neighboring room. 4. Do you think that female roleplayers are more drawn in to the storytelling aspect of the game? If so, why?I haven't seen evidence of this in my experience.5. Do you think that female roleplayers are more or less immune to powergaming/maximizing? If so, why?Maybe; they might be less inclined to view D&D as a winable game than some males.  But I can't say I've seen a lot of powergaming/maximizing even among the male players.  6. Do you think that female roleplayers are generally ignorant about the rules, concentrating more on the stories and the roleplaying itself?Only in situations where the woman is playing primarily because her spouse is the DM, and the DM generally knows the rules exceptionally well.   And maybe less time spent reading rulebooks between game sessions.7. Where do you see advantages/disadvantages of a group that features some/majority/none female roleplayers?I don't know of any disadvantages; I do feel that there's sometimes a better "vibe" in the groups with a female player.  Maybe the guys are on slightly better behavior?  8. Why do you think that male roleplayers are the vast majority in the hobby?Women are somewhat better at social interaction and have (or create) many opportunties to socialize.  Men, sometimes, need excuses to do it, and D&D is one such excuse.  Again, this is only a generalization.  9. Do you think that socalled "Storytelling Games" like e.g. "Vampire" draw more female roleplayers to their genre than traditional roleplaying games like D&D? If so, why?I wouldn't know as I don't play anything but traditional RPGs.10. Are there systems/settings out there in your estimation that are completely devoid of female roleplayers? If so, why?Don't know.11. Do you know female gamers, that, even after some years of play, have only miniscule/no knowledge of even the simplest rules? If so, why?No, they pick up the basics as fast as anyone else.  I know guys who have been playing for years who don't quite remember how to roll an attack roll...12. Did you ever play in groups that only featured female gamers? Did you (if so, how often percentagewise) play in a group that only featured male gamers?How do those groups differ in style?When I was young my group was me plus about 3 neighborhood girls.  I can't say how this differed from later groups really; it seemed about the same to me.  13. Do you think a lot of female gamers are drawn into the hobby because their boyfriends are already playing it, or they want to get to know a boy better in the group, rather than out of personal interest?I have seen the former; never seen the latter.14. Have you ever seen relationships break in a group, maybe even while playing? If so, why?No, I've never seen this.15. Do you think that female gamers are more prone to draw private problems/conflicts into the actual roleplaying than males? If so, why?No.16. Is there generally more quarreling in a group that features some female gamers? If so, why? Could this be also to the benefit of the gaming, e.g. problemes are being dicussed rather that ignored?No.17. Do you think that the general approach of a female gamer is different from a male gamer? If so, how?Totally depends on the person.  I could see that some women gamers place "story" slightly above "rules" -- I know the few times my wife has played, she's been infuriated that the rules won't let her do something she wants to do (cast 3 spells in a round or something like that). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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