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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CherryPie" data-source="post: 5334223" data-attributes="member: 95457">As an actualy girl.....I have found Pathfinder very welcoming. I think you are noticing more women in pathfinder in particular for a few reasons.1 There are more girls playing than everRPGs were made for girls we just didn't know it yet. Think about it, we grow up playing with dolls acting out life encounters. We grow up playing pretend. We grow up playing D&D minus the combat rules with barbies as figs (trust me barbie has her own combat rules). Also there is less stigma now with being one of "those gamers". Don't forget some of us have been playing long enough that there are entirely new generations of gamers, girls included, to bring into the fold cause "we know better now". 2 There is NO numberAs silly as it sounds its a big factor. Most of us gamer girls DON'T want to look like idiots when it comes to rules. We want to know what to do and how to do it. When you first pick up a book it's size and weight are intimidating. When you add a number like 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 it can give the impression that you may need to know all the stuff from all the books before to really understand the game. (Kinda like when they renumber every story line start in comics with #1. It was a marketing idea among the comic book world to help make it easier to bring in new fans without them feeling like they need to start at the beginning. and on a side note congrats to Wonder Woman  #45 returning to it's proper numbering of issue #600)Pathfinder has no number on the cover. Silly as it sounds I think that was brilliant! All the D&D goodness none of the intimidation to new players.3 The rules have been simplifiedArgue about this one if you must I'm not gonna get into it, But if you ask me Pathfinder rules are less confusing, more straight forward, and easier to understand. The skills combining also I believe helps with new gamer intimidation level. 4 There seems to be more emphasis on roll play again.Chances are your new gamer girls are roll players not number crunchers. This can at times make the social aspect of the game more exciting than the combat for these players. Pathfinder has in my opinion opened up that option quite a bit making it more efective and at times quite necessary.5 All the sexy depictions of men in the Pathfinder books don't hurt.</blockquote>

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