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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 5271738" data-attributes="member: 40961">1. 3 female out of 5, plus male DM.2. Overall, probably 20% female.3. They don't change the game.  I'd say that we don't engage in the sort of juvenile humor that poorly masks a hostility and resentment towards women, but we never did that in the first place.4. In my experience, no, women are not more attracted to the storytelling aspect.  However I will say that women seem less interested in tweaking their characters.  This is not the same as being less interested in combat.5. Women seem less interested in maximizing their characters.  Again, this is not the same as being less interested in combat.  It has more to do with how much time one wants to spend pouring over rulebooks.6. No.  Every female player I've gamed with has been competent with regards to the rules.  The players who could not learn the rules to save their own life have been uniformly male.  It is possible that incompetent female players are selected against more harshly than incompetent male players, and that this explains my experience.7. Don't know.8. Historical contingency and nerd culture.9. In my experience, yes.  I suspect that it is simply a question of subject matter.  D&D models the sorts of fantasy novels that are more popular amongst males (sword and sorcery).  Storyteller games model urban fantasy, which is proportionally more popular amongst female readers.  I do not believe that the game mechanics are a meaningful part of the explanation.10. I don't know anything about this question.11. No.  I do know male players who fit this criteria.  Again I suspect that female players who are clueless are judged more harshly, and are more likely to leave the game than equally clueless males.12. No.  Yes, but not since high school.  Stylistic differences seemed to be true regardless of gender, so I suspect that age was more of a factor.13. Probably.  But I also think that a lot of male players are drawn to the hobby because their best friends are into it, or because they want to become part of a social group.  So I don't think this is very important.14. No.  I have never gamed with a dating couple.  I have gamed with some married couples, but they're still married.15. No.  I've never seen a female player do this.  I have seen a male player become hostile towards someone else's character due to out of game disagreements.  But this has been sufficiently rare that I do not draw any conclusions.16. I have never experienced increased quarreling with female players.  I have seen status disputes amongst male players.  These disputes do not seem to arise amongst female players, so I'm going to go with them being slightly less likely to quarrel than males.17. Not particularly.  I do think there are certain personality profiles that are gendered, and that you are less likely to see amongst female players.</blockquote>

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