I m a girl get over it

[Turanil]

Is it just that you are afraid <...> we will see you <...> moved at slaying a dragon may make you lose any sexual credibility and make you less of a man.

Exactly!!

There are some women and I am most certainly one of them who think that guys who are geeks are extremely hot!

In the US maybe. Certainly not in France!!

I would much rather my man conjure spells and be doing something constructive and fun than a belching,scratching yob leering at a football game.

And what about NASCAR?!

<...> so why are you ashamed of it?

In France, it's seen as a retarded teenager's pastime. And I am thrice the age of a teenager...

 

[The_Gunslinger658]

Hi ya-

NASCAR rocks, every sunday morning I put my country station on (95.5FM) and listen to NASCAR racing while I'll struggle to create another masks of Nayarlathtep NPC. Hmmmm I think Dale Ernhardt would make a great cultist priest to the King in Yellow.

Well, its off to the range this weekend to shoot up some targets and drink some beer.


Scott

 

[Goblyns Hoard]

Cheers mate.

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

I quite understand, oppressing players like you have must be terribly difficult... particularly when you only have a little Mongali Horde to threaten them with.

 

[Goblyns Hoard]

Wanna know what's funny? My wife is starting to really get into d&d, and so when we go to look for new books at the local stores (Riders or Underworld), whenever she asks questions to the staff, they address their answers to me, or they just ignore her. It's mind boggling.

I get his with car mechanics... my partner's an engineer and understands the things... I'm a biologist and just know that the car gets me from a to b....

so the mechanic is there asking me questions... I'm shrugging and acting like the ignorant bar steward I am... she's answering the questions... and he's still talking at me....

we learned after a while to just have me not there when there are problems with the car - solves all the problems.

 

[S'mon]

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.

Makes me wonder what city you're in - I'm guessing Newcastle, maybe even Sunderland ( )?

 

[Bront]

...I don't get this assumption at all:\ I think most guys feel that the nearest women get to being involved in a game is when we totter round wearing our aprons handing out mid encounter nibbles before disappearing into the background.
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I got sidetracked for a second there
My original reason for writing this drivel was that girls seemed to get a severe mocking when it comes to having an interest in Dnd.
I sit in my front room nearly every other day reading Ben's MM and pretty much every piece of literature he has on the subject. We have been together for a while now so it is not some failed attempt to impress him it is genuinely because I fine the whole subject fascinating.
I listen to him talk for hours on the phone about encounters he has had and his party members feats and I listen in awe.
What bugs me is why whenever girls talk about DnD or claim they know someting related to it we get laughed at!
Its like a no go area and having testosterone is your members only card.
My boyfriend recently posted a thread about gaming and girlfriends and my interest in it and someone wisely suggested that he should let me play at one of his games and get me actively participating.
As sweet (and naive) as this comment was, I would'nt dream of playing with a group of his friends as I would surely get laughed at, patronisingly patted on my head and may even get called "rookie" or asked to get make the drinks.

I bet there are so many girls on this earth who really want to play the game and be taken seriously. I bet there are girls on this site who probably know more about gaming than some men.
I admit that my appearance may be my down fall as I look like I would be more in tuned to the topic of cheerleading than talk of expeditions in Faerun.

There are not many girls I now who would want to pretend to be sun elfs and slay frost giants on a monday night but I am one of them ......so there

First of all, this is the only reply to this post I've read, so I don't know if any of this has been covered but...

I'm a second generation gamer in my late 20s. I started playing with my dad in solo stuff, or even occasionaly with my mother (who later decided she didn't want to play, though neither my dad or I know why). I joined my first group when I was 10, joining my dad's group (I was the only one under 25), which had 2 prominant female players. Granted, they were wives of other players, but they were just as compitent and knowledgable about the rules as anyone else.

When I was 14-15, I went to GenCon as a ref, and assisted NASCRAG (We run the second largest RPG tourny at the con, I believe our 25th aniversery was last year.) in running the modules, which were often written by both men and women authors. I also got to meet several very good female roleplayers, both in roleplaying skill and rules knowledge.

As an adult, I have met several compitent women gamers, and have been in regular campaigns with quite a few. It never realy was an issue with me, nor those in my gaming circle. Now, generaly women gamers are rarer, but they are out there.

Now, in my personal experience, several of the best roleplayers (in character players) have been women. Often, many of the men get more hooked up into the stats and rules than actualy building a character concept. However, that doesn't mean that they were slackers in rules knowledge.

Hope that helps.

 

[Sarajaine"The Solar"]

Makes me wonder what city you're in - I'm guessing Newcastle, maybe even Sunderland ( )?

middlesbrough

 

[Belen]

*raises hand* Yup, the bf would be me. I'm still here, still reading all the threads but rarely posting (and rarely remembering to log in even).

Djeta usually asks me what's going on here or reads over my shoulder (and tries to get me to post more...can't say for sure why I don't...)

This is an interesting discussion though, enough to bring me out of lurk mode.

I'll have to tell Djeta about this thread, I'm sure she'd agree with Sarajaine on this one.

Oh, by the way, Hi Sarajaine. Welcome to the boards!

Tell her we said "hi." It's always said when some of the regulars disappear.

 

[S'mon]

middlesbrough

Aye, with the macho thing and the lack of gaming... I didn't find Yorkshire suffered from either.

 

[Desdichado]

I know what it feels like to be looked down upon because you have different "equipment" in your "inventory."

Well, yeah. How can you play D&D without a "sword?"