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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 4493439" data-attributes="member: 16069">My brother's wife is also reluctant to roleplay (actually she doesn't do it), we play using RPTools and Skype, most of the time she is away from the Mic, and she only interacts (generally) by using Maptools to point at the player she's going to attack next. We've been playing off and on for... oh years and years and years, even when she has a quest built into her character background (which she has written) then she doesn't interact, even when there's only her character in the room- she waits for someone else to nudge her into action and then states that she agrees, or disagrees, depending on the situation. She laughs at all the other fools in the party, grins (via skype) when the bad guys bite the dirt, is a cock-a-hoop when the quest is done, but she doesn't roleplay- it's about her, not the game, not me, not the situation she's in etc. To us she's the strong dependable fighter type (in almost all games), interestingly she "whispers" in Maptools to the other players, and types in her comments- which are often very amusing as the action unfolds.She don't do the voice thing though, not out loud.She does however put up with my brother, which me and the rest of the family are incredibly thankfull for. Perhaps your player falls into the above category, perhaps she's just quiet, perhaps she's just humouring her man by playing the game, so ask her... but don't be surprised if you find out that she's happy doing what she does.Now I've written this I've realised in my previous game then another friend's girlfriend, who was defeinitely only playing the game because he loved it so much, also said next to nothing- and that was face-to-face roleplay, not Skype and Maptools.Hang on I'm conducting a poll- I've asked my Mrs. and several other female friends (three), it took a while to explain what it is we do- roleplay and the like, I asked them if they wanted to play, mostly they think it sounds very silly "but why would you want to do that?" The consensus is they like the idea of killing things, and incidently rolling dice, but would not talk to people they didn't know already, particularly not using a microphone.Make of that what you will.</blockquote>

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