fusangite said:
Hey -- you and your friends aren't looking good enough on this thread right now for you to pull off this joke. Maybe you should tell people what's actually going on before anybody really runs with this flippant response.
Actually, that goes for both of you. But then that's okay too... we're cutting you some slack for your youth.
Well then, taking that slack for youth, I shall endevour to explain a little more, as long as nobody else acuses me of jeapordising my relationship by doing so
Sarajaine, my girlfriend likes the game of D&D very much. Although she has never played, she reads all the books I have (Nigh on everything published by WotC in the last two years) and listens to my stories of my sessions, looking up monsters where appropriate, occasionally commenting with "Well I'd have done this..." kind of thing.
She's mentioned many times that she'd like to play, but didn't know any girls that'd go for it, for one reason or another. A bunch of friends of mine that I gamed with years ago often visit my house, we chat about D&D a lot, they tell me about my their game I tell them about mine. I quit their group several years ago because it was more or less pure Hack & Slash, I wanted something a little more flavourous. One or two of them have made jokes such as "You couldn't play D&D, you'd think all the monsters were too cute and just needed a good home and some TLC" which as far as I'm concerned, isn't something to make someone break down and cry, and considering my girlfriends response of laughter, my hunch was correct.
There's been other times when discussing detailed combats under exhilerating conditions that she may have wandered in and asking what we were talking about. One friend of mine may've said "You wouldn't understand, you're a girl." again, in jest. We know each other, we're not sexist pig-dogs; nobody suggested she should shut up and get hoovering.
I think the main reason this was posted in the first place was because a lot of people, and maybe it is a local phenomenon, where we're from dismiss girls quite quickly. I worked in the ONLY local gaming store for five years, and I know of one... ONE!... female gamer. Even then, she played Vampire (or anything white-wolf and/or trenchcoat related) not D&D. There just seems to be an inordinate lack of female RPG'ers in these parts. Bizaare.
NB: Not something we're going to break up over, as previously suggested
They were Austrlaians in the UK - that's an entirely different breed from those that stay back home.
