I m a girl get over it

[S'mon]

Here is me in a bikini but unfortunately not chain mail. It doesn't matter what you look like and I don't think Im attractive or ugly, I don't think what I look like has any relavance to the game.
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Hi Sarajaine - I don't think how you look generally has any relevance to the game, although occasionally a GM can be distracted by an attractive player. But there is a potential issue where you're the gf of the GM since the other players may suspect bias. Personally I was a bit uncomfortable one time when a female player attended my game in a short skirt, I'd prefer my players to dress casual, jeans & t-shirts/sweaters type thing, when at the game.

 

[S'mon]

Escalating desperation on the part of others... this is the hope that keeps me getting out of bed every morning.

Judging by Sex & the City the secret is to move to New York and get a job tending bar. Or any job, really.

 

[Will Nelson]

Sarajaine, if that whole boyfriend thing doesn't work out, let me know, okay?

If your boyfriend reads this, I was just kidding.

If he doesn't read this, however, I am very, very serious.

 

[S'mon]

Second, I've noticed that the reason why some (not all -- *some*) women are ignored is that, by male standards, they don't speak up and demand to be heard. During some of our games years ago, we'd notice that a friend's wife looked frustrated because she couldn't get a word. She was waiting for a pause in the conversation and there simply wasn't one, so she said nothing. We'd let her speak when we noticed but we wouldn't always notice. We finally told her, "Speak up and interrupt us if you want to say somethign." That's what all of the guys do to each other and some of the women we know do the same thing. But some women (and some men, I suspect) think that it's rude to interrupt so they are never given a chance to say anything. If the social rules of a group require you to speak up to be heard, then speak up and interrupt just like the guys do and don't worry about being rude.

This can definitely be a problem, especially in larger groups. Men seem to have less trouble talking loudly, interrupting each other & demanding the GM's attention. In a large group it can be easy for the GM to overlook the quieter players. Since they're often the _best_ players, this can be a problem.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Here is me in a bikini ...

Uh Oh. Now you have gone and done it. I predict at least four MORE proposals of marriage posted in this thread, despite the fact that you have already told us you are 5 months pregnant.

Beware the coming geek frenzy...

 

[I'm A Banana]

What can I say Im a stubborn dreamer

You too, eh?

Gaming is a turn-on, I think my bf isso sexy when he talks about dnd and I admire his passion for the game.

The majority of typical girls, as far as I can tell, think that way about music or cars or sports or whatever. You think it about gaming. That's neat. You have found a vast untapped market of hotness. You're at the cutting edge of the rising NerdLust wave!

I'm glad you're pumpin' out a kid. In, like, 16 years maybe she'll even have kept the lessons of gaming hotness and give all those shy nerds in her class the chance that the other beautiful women never would because it's not cool to be into.

Girls who think gaming is sexy...never will cease to amaze, delight, and interest me. One of 'em's the reason I'M a stubborn dreamer myself.

Yay for the existence of folks like yourself.

 

[S'mon]

2) Stick up a post over on Randomlings House. I only played a couple of games with Randomling before I moved away from London but I really got on with her. There had been another girl in the group (Stalking Blue) who had felt a similar 'male oppressiveness' in gaming and might be able to give you better pointers than those of us suffering from testosterone poisoning. I don't want to give you the impression that their group was a bunch of ignorant jocks - they were all really great in the brief time I gamed with them - but Stalking Blue must have seen another side of things and might be able to offer up some advice.

Cheers mate.

I _try_ not to oppress the poor things, really I do...

Edit: In retrospect I think the main reason Stalkingblue left my group was she didn't get on well with my wife, which created tension.

 

[dungeon blaster]

This can definitely be a problem, especially in larger groups. Men seem to have less trouble talking loudly, interrupting each other & demanding the GM's attention. In a large group it can be easy for the GM to overlook the quieter players. Since they're often the _best_ players, this can be a problem.

In other words, men are more crude?

Yeah, I might go with that. However, one thing I've noticed is that girl gamers are more violent (in game). Example: the druidess who casts cause serious wounds on a poor 0th level farmer. Keep in mind this is just my experience, I'm not trying to stereotype anyone.

 

[Desdichado]

Personally I was a bit uncomfortable one time when a female player attended my game in a short skirt, I'd prefer my players to dress casual, jeans & t-shirts/sweaters type thing, when at the game.

I prefer coed naked gaming myself. Damn the torpedoes! And distractions too, for that matter!

Now, if only I can pop over to Vancouver for barsoomcore's Air Canada stewardess game and get them to come around to that point of view...

 

[John Morrow]

Uh Oh. Now you have gone and done it. I predict at least four MORE proposals of marriage posted in this thread, despite the fact that you have already told us you are 5 months pregnant.

The feedback to the fake ad in Knights of the Dinner Table for hot Eastern European women looking for lonely American gamer guys to marry was pretty funny. I think they reprinted it in their 100th issue.