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<blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 3488080" data-attributes="member: 31646">I have been gaming for years and have had very few sessions and no campaigns where at least 1/3 of the players werent female. Most of the girls i have played with (including my fiance) started because someone they were seeing asked them to... However some of them also turned out to be much better gamers then the guy who first asked them to join in. &nbsp; I think my groups have been wierd though, through all the years i have played with military people, actors and actresses (none famous sadly, all aspiring)&nbsp; cops, former cops, jocks, and a bunch of people from martial arts classes and ren fair and sca groups, none of whom you would see and peg as a &quot;geek&quot;. Out of all the groups only two really stand out as geeks, one being a total geek who totally deserved the term... and the other being a math teacher at a university who if you met him you would never guess if he didnt tell you what he did. &nbsp; The only real stereotype of female gamers i have seen to be true is that they dont get into the optimization/wargame aspects as much as men. Most enjoy the combat, they just dont want to number crunch as much as us. Females have added a lot to the RP elements in my games, but thats because each group has had at least one stand out. There was allways at least one other female who just wanted to kick butt. &nbsp;&nbsp; I have never had a problem recruiting females. I find mentioning there are allready other girls in the game helps alot, other then that mentioning its mainly about acting and storytelling rather then being a constant human calculator helps. If you can really live up to those things as a DM then you wont have a problem getting girl gamers IME. And the variety they add to the game will help alot. More bloodthirsty, or more RP focused, girls do react to things differently then us males. And having them in a group will add to the variety of that group and its reactions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="boredgremlin, post: 3488080, member: 31646"] I have been gaming for years and have had very few sessions and no campaigns where at least 1/3 of the players werent female. Most of the girls i have played with (including my fiance) started because someone they were seeing asked them to... However some of them also turned out to be much better gamers then the guy who first asked them to join in. I think my groups have been wierd though, through all the years i have played with military people, actors and actresses (none famous sadly, all aspiring) cops, former cops, jocks, and a bunch of people from martial arts classes and ren fair and sca groups, none of whom you would see and peg as a "geek". Out of all the groups only two really stand out as geeks, one being a total geek who totally deserved the term... and the other being a math teacher at a university who if you met him you would never guess if he didnt tell you what he did. The only real stereotype of female gamers i have seen to be true is that they dont get into the optimization/wargame aspects as much as men. Most enjoy the combat, they just dont want to number crunch as much as us. Females have added a lot to the RP elements in my games, but thats because each group has had at least one stand out. There was allways at least one other female who just wanted to kick butt. I have never had a problem recruiting females. I find mentioning there are allready other girls in the game helps alot, other then that mentioning its mainly about acting and storytelling rather then being a constant human calculator helps. If you can really live up to those things as a DM then you wont have a problem getting girl gamers IME. And the variety they add to the game will help alot. More bloodthirsty, or more RP focused, girls do react to things differently then us males. And having them in a group will add to the variety of that group and its reactions. [/QUOTE]

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