Single women gamers

[shouit]

I was my fiance's DM before I even dated her. She was dating another guy, whom I didn't know really all that well. I don't think the stereo type that couples are easier on each other or that they tend to be OOC a lot is all together accurate. I have seen both sides of the token, and I tend to be more mean towards her than the other players simple because I don't want that to crop up. Easier to lean on the side of too mean then not enough. I also gamed with another couple and he actually killed her character. My fiance's has been to -9 before someone got to her to stablizer.

As for single female gamers, I have met a few of them in my day, not a lot be few. But the ones I have met have been at both sides of the spectrum, quiet to really really, really loud. I will say this, most of the ones that I have met have gotten into gaming because of a previous boyfriend and they got hooked. Has anyone else found this to be true?

 

[hellbender]

I was my fiance's DM before I even dated her. She was dating another guy, whom I didn't know really all that well. I don't think the stereo type that couples are easier on each other or that they tend to be OOC a lot is all together accurate. I have seen both sides of the token, and I tend to be more mean towards her than the other players simple because I don't want that to crop up. Easier to lean on the side of too mean then not enough. I also gamed with another couple and he actually killed her character. My fiance's has been to -9 before someone got to her to stablizer.

However, I have seen this occur more often than not to the extent that it seems a waste of time to join in on such a game unless I already know the people involved. Of course there are exceptions to rules, yet with my experience, I rather not even get started in a group with a couple (one running the game, the other playing).

hellbender

 

[Dragongirl]

In asking one of my female gaming friends, she gave me this little bit of insight:

The odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Hahahahhaha, as a single female gamer I just can't stop chuckling at this one. Good one!!!

 

[Buttercup]

I don't think the stereo type that couples are easier on each other or that they tend to be OOC a lot is all together accurate.

Heh. I killed my husband's character in our last session. He did a really stupid thing and, well, buh-bye.

As for single women gamers, we have one in our T20 game, and the two single guys in the group haven't hit on her yet. She's beautiful, and smart too. But flirthing isn't something that happens at the gaming table in my circle.

Oh, and for the record, I brought my husband into gaming, not the other way around.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

Thank you Meepo the Mighty for that wonderful link. I have not seen this comic (and I am a big fan of the online comics) yet, so it was wonderful to see.

Check out the archives, there are a lot of gaming-related strips on that site. A lot of the humor is pretty twisted, but I like it like that

 

[Knightcrawler]

Yeah I've seen it. A single woman joins a game group and most of the single males are alling all over themselves to try and date her. Luckily I've been lucky with my past few gaming groups, they were to mature for such high school stuff. The younger your players are the more it seems to happen.

As to having a couple play I have to disagree. Currently a married couple is playing in my campaign. They play very well and their characters only gravitate towards one another every once and a while. Of course when one is a half-orc and the other is a dwarf its pretty much a moot point.

My gaming groups started having a standing rule of no extraneous people at or around the gaming table. And this was usually extended to the house or apartment we were playing in. In other words; no wives, girlfriends, significant others, hangers-on, etc. If they weren't seriously interested in gaming, they weren't there.

 

[maddman75]

I've gamed with single women a lot in the past - have two in my group right now. At one point I had four.

Only one of them tried to give me cute little pouty lips when her character got attacked. That just made me use PA next round.....

 

[ForceUser]

I've gamed with many females over the years; most were married or in a relationship. I have to be honest, if an attractive female gamer joined my group I'd have a hard time not hitting on her. Gaming is, after all, a social hobby.

 

[Dragongirl]

Couples that play seem to have a harder time trying to be IC, their pcs seem to gravitate towards each other. Sometimes this is ridiculous or just downright annoying.[/B]

All I have to say is that I feel sorry for any romantic couple that have a problem roleplaying, in game or not.

 

[Ezrael]

It's funny...we had one of my cousins in my original game group. Of course, she was both my cousin and twelve when we started playing, so I wouldn't have hit on her even if I hadn't feared her.

But after that, no, I never played with a single female again. It's not like I have anything against it, it just never happened. I did get hit on by the staff of a Wizards store once (It was all female, and all entirely too young for me) to the great amusement of my fiancee...and no, she doesn't game. It seems to me that the hobby is stablizing a bit in terms of gender.