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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d20Dwarf" data-source="post: 969273" data-attributes="member: 314">EDIT: Replies to an unbelievably rude, reactionary, narcissistic poster deleted to avoid more of the same.ON TOPIC PORTION BELOWI think that question was quite astute, though I'm not surprised by the answers. D&D, after all, is an adventure roleplaying game, so those attracted to it must be attracted to adventure. I think women and men both enjoy adventure stories, classical romances as another poster pointed out, but probably for different reasons. But this does not mean that when a woman reads such a story she isn't in some way experiencing the exhilaration of the knight on horseback riding down his foes. Regardless of gender, nobody wants to play the captured person, it's the adventurer/rescuer that is the stuff of stories.The same goes for me, a man, when I'm reading about female characters. Let's look at the Game of Thrones series, for instance. I find Sansa Stark to be almost an intolerable character, while Arya Stark is probably my favorite. It's an archetypal difference almost tailor-made for this thread: both are survivors, but one relies on the mercy of others (oh! my Jonqhuil!!) while the other does what it takes to survive, relying only grudgingly on others. My girlfriend is of a similar mind (although she likes Danaerys best, who is little better than Sansa in my opinion).The fact that D&D is a game is what is often overlooked in threads and questions such as these. Were semperjase asking about real life, I would likely have a much different answer, but as far as the game goes, it's no surprise that women want to be the hero just as much as men.As a last point to lighten the mood a bit: if you think it's just as worthwhile to rescue an ineffectual man as it is a princess, then you obviously have never watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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