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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emperor Valerian" data-source="post: 2088610" data-attributes="member: 15043">1. How many female roleplayers do you have presently in your campaign(s)?First off I am a male, but the first campaign I GMed for a while had all female players, and even after other males joined, it remained at least half female (by the end, 2 males, 2 females).  My current campaign has two players, one male and one female.  The only campaign I've played in had a female GM, two female players, and three male players (counting myself).2. Percentagewise, with how many females did you share your hobby in your own gaming history so far in comparison to the males?So far, discounting one shots (whose exact makeup I can't remember), the campaigns I've been in have included 5 males (not counting myself), and 4 females.3. How do female roleplayers change the style of play in your groups?In my experience, not much... the style of play seems more dependent on who exactly is playing.  In the last campaign I ran, one of the males was a very good roleplayer, while in my current campaign, the male is more of a hack and slasher.  In terms of group behavior, I don't think the females changed the dynamics much (in terms of "crude" humor, they often instigated!)4. Do you think that female roleplayers are more drawn in to the storytelling aspect of the game? If so, why?Not neccessarily.  As I said, males in my previous campaign were attracted to the storytelling aspect just as much.  Once again, I think its something that depends on the individual person.5. Do you think that female roleplayers are more or less immune to powergaming/maximizing? If so, why?That is a definite NO.  Two of my previous female players purposefully constructed characters that maximized their abilities to the utmost (fighter with two blades, all requisite feats to be a dual damage horror, Monte-Cook bard that loved to blow up heads with sound).  They roleplayed as well, but I think they loved the cracking skulls aspect too.6. Do you think that female roleplayers are generally ignorant about the rules, concentrating more on the stories and the roleplaying itself?Once again, that's a no.  My first campaign DMing, one of the female players was my DM in the campaign I played in.  She taught me the rules, in many ways.7. Where do you see advantages/disadvantages of a group that features some/majority/none female roleplayers?In my experience, I think its the players themselves that provide the advantages/disadvantages, not necessarily their gender.8. Why do you think that male roleplayers are the vast majority in the hobby?Maybe it has something from how RPGs came from wargames, which have a predominantly male audience, though I think things have been becoming less and less male as time goes on.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 haven't had experience playing that game or an RPG outside of D&D, so I don't know.10. Are there systems/settings out there in your estimation that are completely devoid of female roleplayers? If so, why?Shrug... Once again, I 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?I know one, yes.  But that is more because she's a casual player that joins our group here and there when she has time, not because she's a female.  The male 'casual players' ran into the same thing.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?For maybe the first 3 sessions of my first DM campaign, I had all female players. We ran 19 more sessions after that, and I'm guessing only the last 11 or so had male-female parity.  I've never been in a campaign with all male players.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?Two of the females I played with joined out of personal interest.  The other two played intermittently because their sisters were in my game, and they were cajoled into joining (and eventually, getting hooked) <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=":)" />14. Have you ever seen relationships break in a group, maybe even while playing? If so, why?Nope.15. Do you think that female gamers are more prone to draw private problems/conflicts into the actual roleplaying than males? If so, why?Not that I have seen.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?I don't think so... my groups have had surprisingly few quarrels.  I can only think of a couple from over three different campaigns.  When they did occur, it was usually in character over another character's actions.17. Do you think that the general approach of a female gamer is different from a male gamer? If so, how?Not really.  Once again, my experience points towards it being a difference among individual players, not necessarily a difference along gender lines.  I've played with males that love to roleplay, and females that love breaking heads, so I don't think the stereotype really applies.</blockquote>

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