How many female gamers in your group?

[EricNoah]

I'm in 4 groups. Two have 1 female player each (both are DM spouses). The other two have no female players (though we did have one for a while -- we miss you, Kathye!).

The first gaming group I ran as a kid was all girls (except me). But that was a pretty unique situation as most of my friends in general were girls at the time.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I'm one of three girls in my group (DMed by The_Universe... check out the Story Hour)... which also means I have the pleasure of playing with Xath and Laurel who both frequent the boards!

Yay girls!!

 

[Commonblade]

We started with 3 guys and a DM. Added the DM's Girl friend, and two more guys. Added a players sister, and another guy. Added a third girl (This is how I met my wife) and added Two more guys.

Guys 8
Girls 3

Party size = 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now everyone starts Graduating College...
We add my wifes cosine (girl) and now

Guys 3 (if you count me, now DM)
Girls 3
Party size 5.

50/50

Its kinda nice now.

 

[Galethorn]

I voted for '2' because. while the group only 'officially' has one girl now, another is gonna join in this weekend.

Now, as for age demographics, just for kicks...

Including me, there are four guys who always come to all sessions; two 17 year olds (me and somebody I've been friends with since time immemorial), one 18 year old, and an almost-14-year-old. We also have three other guys who make it to about 75% of the games (18, 18, and 14 respectively; one is the 14-year-old's brother). We also have two evil 20-year-old twins who make it to about...oh, a third of the games; one is going to school on the other side of the state, and the other works a lot.

The one female 'long-time-member' of the group is 16, and (being a tolkienist) joined almost exactly a year ago when she heard about the LOTR game I was running. Her boyfriend met her through the game; the nerdiness of it still amuses both of them to no end.

The 'new girl on the block' is somebody I've known as a somewhat distant acquaintance (i.e. she went to the same 300-kid middle school) since 6th grade or so, and ended up--by chance--in the same class as in community college. She's 17 too.

Oh yeah, and the evil twins have another girl I've known for years and years in training, so she's slowly moving into the gaming circle as a whole.

 

[lauth81]

I have 9 people (me, the DM, not included) in my group, 5 of them are female.

Interestingly, I have 2 guys, who play female characters and 2 girls, who play male characters.

 

[Azul]

Three women in a 9 person group (1 male DM, 5 male players, 3 female players - big group but a very stable mix of personalities).

In the past, we've had as many as 5 women in the group (of 12 people at that point - yeah, it was a huge group... kept it going for about 1 year before it imploded due to interpersonal conflict).

Some folks have mentioned how the girls keep the guys from going into the gutter sometimes. Not in our bunch! Our lasses belt out raunchier and cruder commentary than the guys more often than not.

 

[Azul]

Well, for 3 years I've only had one woman in my group. She moved away this month, so it's all guys now. At one time, about 8 years ago, I had 3 women and one male player. One of the women had come from an all female group, where she was the DM for 4 other women. I stopped by once to say hi and watched a bit of their game. They were the most bloodthirsty and cold-blooded group of killers I'd ever seen. *shudder*

Yeah... the ladies in my bunch are usually the cold-hearted butchers. The guys tend to go for flashy, dramatic or impressive. The girls tend to build highly efficient and business-like characters. Very goal oriented and ruthless. Our female players are far more likely to want to play full-blooded orcs wielding greataxes than light-and-fluffy elves (unless the elves are "living siege engine" style sorcerers or evokers).

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

No women in my campaign, though the extended group of friends I game with includes one hardcore gamer and one sometimes gamer.

J. Grenemyer

 

[BSF]

I have two completely seperate groups with no cross-over between them, aside from myself. I just combined the groups to treat it like one huge mega-group of 13 folks with 4 women.

 

[Sketchpad]

My weekly group usually has 2 women at the table ... though I've had up to six gaming at once. In my family game that I run occasionally, I'm the only male of four people playing