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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 2088714" data-attributes="member: 6533">Out of two campaigns currently running: three women versus eight guys.  Would be great to bring in more.  Don't know if it will happen given the groups involved.strictly in games I've been in the ratio has been something like 46% give or takethe percentage of women in my total gaming environment is probably is harder to calculate but the above seems to be not too awful a numberThey don't.  If anything they make it more violent.  They do, naturally, change the rules of discourse a good deal.  We had a male player say something horribly insulting last week that would have been more acceptable if he had said it to a male player.No.  I might argue they are more into their characters than others, but I don't know that I could really back that up.Oh Hell NO!  If anything the ones I play with are scarilly worse about it.  They may not be as likely to seek out books to support this, but I submit that would change if the local gaming stores weren't so skeezy.No more so than anyone who isn't a DM.  Though at least one of my current players has been a most impressive DM in the past, issue is it was with her own system.I like it, more variety is good.  Women are neat.  They've all been so very different that it's hard to generalize beyond that.  They tend to get stupidly pouty less than men, but that's only because we've had some men who tended to become stupidly pouty.Sociological history, marketting to same, and the age groups involved.Could be, if so it probably comes from their ability to pull in non-roleplayers generally by being interesting to people who would normally just be interested in Gothicness or some such.It's possible.  I don't know of one personally.  There was a year in which there were very few women in my RPGing life.  It was a bad year, but it had nothing to do with the system.yes, but no more so than any number of guys.  If all you're doing is playing then you may not get out much to read through the DMG.Since I'm a guy the answer to the first one is no.  Second one, yes, and the style didn't so much differ as the overall experience was a tad bit suckier.  It was one of the best games I've played in.  It would have been better for having women in it.Maybe, but I haven't seen it in any of the women I play with.  Unless they're getting to know me better, if so it's working out for the game better than it is for me.  We do have one guy who started playing because his girlfriend now wife got him into it.  He's awesome, but then again so is she.No, but I've heard stories.Oh Hell No!  In my experience guys are way way worse about that.Not in my experience, at least not as I can seperate it out from the individual personalities involved.Not so much, but it's hard for me to seperate out a general idea of a female gamer from the individual personalities involved.I might be able to argue that there is a type of gamer that I primarilly see only as men, but I'd have to give it some thought.  The women I've played with have been a pretty diverse lot, but the guys might be less so.</blockquote>

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