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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thastygliax" data-source="post: 5409438" data-attributes="member: 9825">I started playing D&D in middle school and high school in the '80s, and the only female player I can recall from then was my little sister (who played in my game for a while to spend time with my guy friends). I briefly had a couple female players in my college campaign, who were older then the rest of us (one was a young prof, one a prof's college-grad daughter) and far better role-players than the guys. But it wasn't until after I moved to Boston ('93) that I began to game with women with any regularity. The local LARP community is pretty evenly split between the sexes, as are the LARP GMs. Between LARP and the SCA, I also acquired several friends at Wellesley (a women's college), including my wife. Between those, and all the other contacts I've made since, nearly every tabletop group I've played with in the past 15 years has been mixed company. Offhand, I can only recall one campaign in that time that never had a female player, and I personally haven't run an all-guy game since moving here--and I'm not sure I'd want to. Several of the women gamers I know have run their own games, and some of them have been among the best GMs I've ever had. Currently I'm in two regular gaming groups. In one, the two women in the group are the ones who usually GM (they co-ran the long-term game I first joined, and have run most of the other games since then). The other group was formed for one of my games, which just wrapped; after the holidays, my wife and one of the other women will be alternating as GMs for two new games for the same gang.</blockquote>

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