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<blockquote data-quote="Shades of Green" data-source="post: 5340747" data-attributes="member: 3297"><p>From my experience, there is variance among female gamers and geeks exactly as among male gamers and geeks. Take my spouse, for example: yes, she's one of the best role-players I've ever met, but she also really likes rolling dice and blowing stuff up (Fireball is her favorite spell!). She's also way better than me in action-oriented computer games such as DooM and various platformers (the Commander Keen series are her favorite). and in a few weeks I'll be introducing her to miniature wargames, using the <a href="http://www.15mm.co.uk/USE_ME_15mm_Sci-fi_wargame_rules.htm" target="_blank">USE ME</a> ruleset, and she's quite excited about that!</p><p></p><p>And while she probably won't be interested in gun engineering or fixing cars, she LOVES math-based riddles in RPGs and could spend HOURS speculating about how this or that monster should work biologically-speaking or on how each monster or demihuman race has evolved (she's a bio-geek, and hopefully she'll start studying for a Masters degree in microbiology or entomology in a year or so).</p><p></p><p>Two other female geeks I happen to know (one of which is a gamer) are deeply into mathematics and physics - one of them (the non-gamer one who is an avid fan of sci-fi books) is a high-school math teacher and has an extensive library of books of two kinds - mathematics and sci-fi. And my own mother, while not being a gamer per-se, is quite geekish, and enjoys action-packed TV shows such as 24 and Lost and films such as James Bond.</p><p></p><p>And, being a male, I'm quite interested in wargaming, but even more interested in role-playing and world-building and not very interested in technical challenges (I'm a geographer, not an engineer).</p><p></p><p>In short, I won't be surprised if you could find the same range of varied tastes among female gamers exactly as among male gamers.</p><p></p><p>And I think that the main reason that female gamers tend, on average, to be more role-play-oriented than roll-play-oriented is that many of them start gaming at a later age than many male gamers, and thus might tend to be a bit more mature on average.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shades of Green, post: 5340747, member: 3297"] From my experience, there is variance among female gamers and geeks exactly as among male gamers and geeks. Take my spouse, for example: yes, she's one of the best role-players I've ever met, but she also really likes rolling dice and blowing stuff up (Fireball is her favorite spell!). She's also way better than me in action-oriented computer games such as DooM and various platformers (the Commander Keen series are her favorite). and in a few weeks I'll be introducing her to miniature wargames, using the [URL=http://www.15mm.co.uk/USE_ME_15mm_Sci-fi_wargame_rules.htm]USE ME[/URL] ruleset, and she's quite excited about that! And while she probably won't be interested in gun engineering or fixing cars, she LOVES math-based riddles in RPGs and could spend HOURS speculating about how this or that monster should work biologically-speaking or on how each monster or demihuman race has evolved (she's a bio-geek, and hopefully she'll start studying for a Masters degree in microbiology or entomology in a year or so). Two other female geeks I happen to know (one of which is a gamer) are deeply into mathematics and physics - one of them (the non-gamer one who is an avid fan of sci-fi books) is a high-school math teacher and has an extensive library of books of two kinds - mathematics and sci-fi. And my own mother, while not being a gamer per-se, is quite geekish, and enjoys action-packed TV shows such as 24 and Lost and films such as James Bond. And, being a male, I'm quite interested in wargaming, but even more interested in role-playing and world-building and not very interested in technical challenges (I'm a geographer, not an engineer). In short, I won't be surprised if you could find the same range of varied tastes among female gamers exactly as among male gamers. And I think that the main reason that female gamers tend, on average, to be more role-play-oriented than roll-play-oriented is that many of them start gaming at a later age than many male gamers, and thus might tend to be a bit more mature on average. [/QUOTE]
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