I m a girl get over it

[RithTheAwakener]

Heres a little prospect that might work. (i decided not to read the entire thing, so forgive me if this has already been suggested).

Steal his gaming books, maybe read em and try to learn the basics of the game, maybe even teach it to yourself or get one of ur BFs friends to teach u it. If your scared of being labeled as a rookie, ask him for a chance to prove your not, after u learn the rules. Suprise him! make him see that women can play just as well...

if this sounds sporatic, it is, im not really paying attention. appolgies

 

[Silverleaf]

Girls are playing D&D?!!
O tempora! o mores!

 

[reanjr]

Is it just that we are the of the opposite sex or that you are afraid to let us into your world for fear we will see you at your most vulnerable and the concept of seeing you getting excited or even moved at slaying a dragon may make you lose any sexual credibility and make you less of a man.

Yes, having a woman think up an imaginary character and roll dice to slay an imaginary dragon in a weekend pastime would totally destroy my feelings of masculinity.

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

They obviously need a marketing campaign. Is there like a geeks seeking geeks site somewhere that I don't know about?

The point I am making is that I know from first hand experience with my boyfriend that gamers love what they do with a passion so why are you ashamed of it?

Because the media tells us to be ashamed of ourselves. And we must listen.

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.

Really? My general reaction is to try and make sure she's not just doing it to turn guys on. And then I say something like, "Alright, be at [insert name here]'s around 2PM Sunday. No, you're going, it's not up to you any more... Yes you are... I'll have someone pick you up, then... Then call in sick... OK, then next week... I don't like to be toyed with..." or something like that.

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.

Perhaps you should find a different local gaming group to play in. You could even start one.

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.

That's what rookies are for! It's hazing!! No, really, you should start your own game.

I bet there are so many girls on this earth who really want to play the game and be taken seriously.

I think your world view might be a bit skewed, but it's good to be optimistic. I don't think there are many people of ANY group that are just itching to play D&D 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.

Try letting yourself go. Perhaps that will help.

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

 

[S'mon]

Ok, I've just read through all 8 pages of this thread and there is something that concerns me greatly...
They let YOU into MY state?
I'm gonna have to speak with the border guard about this....

The way things are going in Florida I have to wonder if DM is really joking...

 

[S'mon]

I think your world view might be a bit skewed, but it's good to be optimistic. I don't think there are many people of ANY group that are just itching to play D&D and be taken seriously.

There are certainly many would-be D&Ders who can't find a good group to play with, although these days the Internet helps a lot. Also I think there are a fair number of girls and young women who would like to play D&D but are worried about acceptance by male D&Ders, many of these sadly end up playing Vampire or something instead.

 

[Dirigible]

I'd just like to interject here and say that we on the Against the Shadow forums poached this topic for our own discussion, and we subsequently arrived at the correct answer (and in only two pages!):

I believe that girls make bad gamers because lake trout have 1/4 of a hit die.

Proof positive. QED. Thus Spake Zarathustra. I consider the issue to be at rest.

 

[I'm A Banana]

This thread is about 2 hours away from just becoming the new hivemind thread.

This thing almost *began* has a Hivemind thread.

It had better not. I wouldn't be caught dead in a hivemind thread!

What if we kill you, then reanimate your corpse, so you're caugh UNdead in a hivemind thread? Would that be acceptable?

Also, sweet cuppin' cakes, do threads like this bring out the crazy in people. Back up off, lighten up, it's only a game, she's only not a stereotype (Gasp! People have dimension! World = Shattered!), and lets all go dress up like elves and roll some dice around. Sounds like fun? I'll bring the soda if you order the pizza.

 

[Scratched_back]

Also, sweet cuppin' cakes, do threads like this bring out the crazy in people. Back up off, lighten up, it's only a game, she's only not a stereotype (Gasp! People have dimension! World = Shattered!), and lets all go dress up like elves and roll some dice around. Sounds like fun? I'll bring the soda if you order the pizza.

Hehe I agree there!

 

[Silver Moon]

I have noticed that the gamers on this site are predominantly from the US and the whole RPG industry and gamers are huge in comparison to here in the UK. This would probably explain as to why there is more exceptance over there due to the fact there are a lot more female players.

It's been mentioned before in this thread, but you may want to check out www.randomlingshouse.com The site's hostess, Randomling, is from London. The site includes a "Girl's Talk" forum for female gamers only (which one of the Admin's can give you permissions to once you register). The whole idea of the site actually grew out of a thread that Randomling started here two-and-a-half years ago expressing similar frustrations as you have.

 

[Jesus_marley]

Geez... the last game I was in all the players (and the GM) were female except me. It was like a Bizarro world version of KotDT.