Minorities & D&D/RPGs

[reveal]

i'm a hispanic asian pacific islander

i've gamed with koreans, indians, pakistanis, panamanians, germans, brits, etc...red, yellow, brown, white, pink, black, green from too much beer & pretzels... we are all shades.

in my old OD&D group we had a whole mix of ethnicities... what we didn't have was any gamer girls.

Sounds like the start of a bad joke:

A Pacific Islander, a Korean, an Indian, a Pakistani, a Panamanian, a German, and a Brit are all playing D&D...

 

[diaglo]

Sounds like the start of a bad joke:

A Pacific Islander, a Korean, an Indian, a Pakistani, a Panamanian, a German, and a Brit are all playing D&D...

yeah, we had a blast. and at least 1 joke every 10 minutes.

diaglo "British, Danish, Filipino... all in one..." Temporado

 

[Animus]

I'm an African-American gamer myself, but in the three years I've been playing, I've only met three other black gamers, and roughly the same number of other non-whites. I think partly it might be a cultural thing, partly a socio-economic thing as to why there aren't more minority gamers... at least for the African-American population.

I am an African American gamer as well, and come from a socio-economically disadvantaged situation (translation: I was poor). I have concluded the same thing. I just had the right set of circumstances, I figure.

 

[mythusmage]

I'm a white native american myself.

Once DMed a game for four blacks. Upper middle class at that. Didn't do that hot a job unfortunately. Out of practice and trying too hard to impress people. Outside of that it's been mostly whites, with the occasional non-white. Including a Han by the name of Goon who's family immigrated from Thailand.

 

[Henry]

I've known and gamed with a very few gamers of African Ancestry (I don't use A-A, because not everyone was American ) but mainly it's been with other caucasian males, probably because people tend to hang out in similar groups. Since D&D is a game spread predominantly socially, there aren't as many non-caucasian, non-males who are introduced this way.

It's one reason I like going to Gamedays, and espcially Gencon: Because I get to see a wider spectrum of gamers than I usually do.

 

[MonsterMash]

Generally I find in the UK it seems to be fairly heavily white males, but in one of the groups I game with we've had a membership including one british indian, one canadian chinese, one scandinavian, male and female hispanics (Puerto Rican) and a few of us white brits. Also had mixed gender in the group pretty much all the way through.

At conventions in London I haven't seen that many minority gamers, which I would tend to expect more here than in the other cities.

 

[Bront]

Generally I find in the UK it seems to be fairly heavily white males,

Weight or Quantity? Clairification is needed.

I've gamed with several black players, including one in my first group who I thought was a fantastic roleplayer. I also have been in groups where I was one of only 3 males at an 8 man + GM table. Realy, the only ethnicity I've not gamed with has been Indian (From india), and it's not from a lack of trying, just never met one who gamed.

 

[Zander]

In addition to white (i.e. of European Protestant or Catholic descent) gamers, I have gamed with or know gamers who are:

• Asian American female of Chinese & Philipino descent
• Singaporean male of Chinese descent
• Asian American male of Chinese descent
• Black British female
• British male of Greek & European Jewish descent
• British Jewish male of non-Jewish English and South African Jewish descent

Despite having lived and even gamed in Japan, I've never met a Japanese gamer.

 

[the Jester]

I've been gaming since around 1981, and in that time I've played mostly with white folks.

Of course, I grew up in a pretty monocultural town, but still...

Anyway, I've had native Americans, a single Japanese-American, a single Indian-American, and prolly a few others. But way more girls than minorities. :\

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Other than people I've met at game days and conventions, in 25+years of gaming I have played with one chinese-american female, and one hispanic-american male. Of course I grew up in a town in New Hampshire, where for a long time you could count the number of minority families on one hand.