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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2095466" data-attributes="member: 12037"> 1. How many female roleplayers do you have presently in your campaign(s)?One. 2. Percentagewise, with how many females did you share your hobby in your own gaming history so far in comparison to the males?8% maybe? 3. How do female roleplayers change the style of play in your groups?Our jokes get a bit more perverted, I suppose. 4. Do you think that female roleplayers are more drawn in to the storytelling aspect of the game? If so, why?No. Recently a male player of mine commented how he loved just sitting around town roleplaying out what they were doing and interacting. The female member of the group said that she wanted to kill more things (only 1 combat that session). 5. Do you think that female roleplayers are more or less immune to powergaming/maximizing? If so, why?Haha, no. Nobody wants their character to be a weakling. 6. Do you think that female roleplayers are generally ignorant about the rules, concentrating more on the stories and the roleplaying itself?In my experience... they react the same as males in this regard. 7. Where do you see advantages/disadvantages of a group that features some/majority/none female roleplayers?It's more fun whena woman is involved. Regarding anything in life, really. 8. Why do you think that male roleplayers are the vast majority in the hobby?Same reason more males buy Shonen Jump, we're the target audience. That, and it can probably be easier for a male to get into the hobby. Because its a male dominated past-time, its easier for males to get involved than females in an endless circle. 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?Hmm well I have known some female LARPers who really liked it, my boss last year for one. However, I have known far more women into video game hack and slashes, so I have to say no. 10. Are there systems/settings out there in your estimation that are completely devoid of female roleplayers? If so, why?Misogyny the game? Just kidding. Women play that too. Okay okay, just kidding, there had better not be a game called that. 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?Define simplest rules. If by that you mean calculating attacks, movement, skill use, and character creation/leveling, then no. Overall, the same as the men I game with. But, I've had bad luck finding people who learn *any* rules beyond their own characters necessities. 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?I have not. 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?Every time it has been the opposite. The female gamers have brought their boyfriends to the table. We got a very fun player that way, if busy and unavailable much of the time unfortunately. 14. Have you ever seen relationships break in a group, maybe even while playing? If so, why?No... as the DM if anything like that started up, I would tell 'em to take it outside. Two members are ex'es, however. It hasn't caused a problem, and I don't expect it to. 15. Do you think that female gamers are more prone to draw private problems/conflicts into the actual roleplaying than males? If so, why?God, who puts up with that kind of thing? My friends are all mature enough not to. 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?An odd question. We don't argue in my group. I suppose that's because we're all friends, rather than anything else. 17. Do you think that the general approach of a female gamer is different from a male gamer? If so, how?Nope, I think females are just as varied and different from each other as males are, at least in my experience. If anything, they're more powergamers than what I'm used to, but most of my players arn't anywhere near powergamers, so that is waaaay skewed I'm sure. Powergamer in this case means about the way the average ENWorlder probably plays among my current group. They're that sad. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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