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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 2089067" data-attributes="member: 14041">1. How many female roleplayers do you have presently in your campaign(s)?Two, which is 1/2 the group or 2/3 of the players.2. Percentagewise, with how many females did you share your hobby in your own gaming history so far in comparison to the males?I know more males who game, but have gamed with more females.3. How do female roleplayers change the style of play in your groups?Somewhat, but in my case I think it has more to do with personalities than anything else.  The women in are group are always making the realitonships and the backstories of the chracters more complicated than they need to be cause thats what makes it fun for them.4. Do you think that female roleplayers are more drawn in to the storytelling aspect of the game? If so, why?Perhaps, but again more personality than gender, see previous answer.5. Do you think that female roleplayers are more or less immune to powergaming/maximizing? If so, why?Nope.  That has nothing to do with gender.6. Do you think that female roleplayers are generally ignorant about the rules, concentrating more on the stories and the roleplaying itself?You sir are obviously not married to an editor who plays DnD.  She may be less aware of them than I am, but thats because I tend to run the games.  She wants to know all of them and if she had more time would.  She HATES not knowing every single rule.  Most of the editors I know personally are female and I would bet most of them are the same way.7. Where do you see advantages/disadvantages of a group that features some/majority/none female roleplayers?Well, it does keep it from being a one note game.  8. Why do you think that male roleplayers are the vast majority in the hobby?Stereotypes in the minds of those who play and those who make the games causes the game to be marketed to males rather than females.  It has nothing to do with the concept of roleplaying itself.  You could ask why were most sports men only in the US in the last 50 years, same thing.  That has changed, or is chaning, so too with RPGS.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?They seem to, but I think thats marketing again.  Vampire is associated with a subculture, in my experiance althoug I realize thats not totally true, Goth.  If DnD were associated with a subcultre (other than Nerd) it would draw more females I bet.  Marketing again.10. Are there systems/settings out there in your estimation that are completely devoid of female roleplayers? If so, why?No idea.  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.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?Only played in all male games at a Con.  Have played in all female games, but this was my wife and out best friend the game was done with them in mind.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?While my wife and I started hanging out and then dating becuase we met playing DnD, she did not start playing to meet me or keep playing because of me.  So she played out of personal interest.  Same is true of the other female in the group.  She played cause thats what her friends did, just happened that most of her friends were male at the time.14. Have you ever seen relationships break in a group, maybe even while playing? If so, why?no.  May it never be.  We have two married couples in out group.15. Do you think that female gamers are more prone to draw private problems/conflicts into the actual roleplaying than males? If so, why?I don't know.  But recently my Paladin has been dealing with the death of his father, and since my father has been ill lately that has made ME draw private problems into the game.  Don't know if thats what you were talking about, but there you go.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 idea.17. Do you think that the general approach of a female gamer is different from a male gamer? If so, how?Perhaps.  See above answers.  Male gamers seem to be more about the combat and less about the story, but I have seen it both ways so I don't think there is a clear answer here.</blockquote>

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