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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonbait" data-source="post: 5272102" data-attributes="member: 29182">1. How many female roleplayers do you have presently in your campaign(s)? 32. Percentagewise, with how many females did you share your hobby in your own gaming history so far in comparison to the males? 25%3. How do female roleplayers change the style of play in your groups? Characters having intimate relationships (gasp! s-e-x!) was discussed in the games. Typically by the female players. It never took over the game session, and was more matter-of-fact... Also there seems to be a lot less gas in groups that have female players. Coincidence? My Friday night group of all guys sounds like a choir of bagpipes sometimes... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=">:(" title="Mad    >:("  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=">:(" />4. Do you think that female roleplayers are more drawn in to the storytelling aspect of the game? No5. Do you think that female roleplayers are more or less immune to powergaming/maximizing? No, but the female games I've seen are less likely to do it.6. Do you think that female roleplayers are generally ignorant about the rules, concentrating more on the stories and the roleplaying itself?No7. Where do you see advantages/disadvantages of a group that features some/majority/none female roleplayers? It may look better to people who have very stereotypical views on games, but I'm really reaching for that one.8. Why do you think that male roleplayers are the vast majority in the hobby? Society? 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? No10. Are there systems/settings out there in your estimation that are completely devoid of female roleplayers? I doubt it. I've never seen a woman playing Warhammer FRP for isntance, but that does not say much.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? Yes, because she did it just to be social. I know a male player like that, too.12. Did you ever play in groups that only featured female gamers?No Did you play in a group that only featured male gamers? Yes. How do those groups differ in style? Again, groups with females had some references to characters having sex. That's it.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? No, not from my experience14. Have you ever seen relationships break in a group, maybe even while playing? If so, why? Yes. There was a strange love triangle in a 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? No. Most drama llamas I've encountered are guys.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. The most quarrelsome groups were almost all males, and the female players were not involved17. Do you think that the general approach of a female gamer is different from a male gamer? If so, how? No.</blockquote>

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