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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8497420" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Magic items, or just the fact in plenty of wilderness areas there was a big enough physical gap when you saw things.  Keep in mind, most of the groups I saw were 6-8 players back in the day, so a MU or two wasn't being left entirely alone even with a single character each; might have been a different story if you were only working with four players.Well, keep in mind I'm specifically talking about the 70's; I moved out of D&D for many years after 78.  Though there were still plenty of female players out here in the games I moved into, so if they drowned out female players completely for a while, I certainly didn't see it.(Note, this is not me trying to say that there were not some gender imbalance things going on during that period; SF fandom itself, though more representative than wargame fandom, was not a gender balanced hobby.  But starting with Trek fandom and growing slowly with time this evened out considerably, even if some attitudes of the male end were still, well, special).</blockquote>