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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1881754" data-attributes="member: 15651">Back when I was a teenager, some 20 years ago  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />  my gaming was mostly in the back room of the local hobby store.  There were two women (OK, at the time they were girls) who came regularly.  Both were great players and brought this strange and intersting element to the games called roleplaying.  We boys had some trouble adjusting to this idea, but eventually started to catch on.  One of the girls' character always had a supply of mice which she would use to test potions and do other risky things.  One DM used to create entire dungeons devised solely to kill off her mice.  I beleive she still games occasionally.  The other girl met a guy in college who converted her to a fundamentalist christian and she tried to get my friends and I to turn away from the evils of gaming, drinking and pre-marital sex...not the best way to stay in touch with your male, college-aged friendsSince then: There was one woman I knew who only started playing because she wanted to get to know me (nice ego trip there, huh?).  When we broke up, she stopped gaming completely.  I got my wife started in gaming.  She had always been interested in playing, but never had the opportunity. We still have her pristine copy of the purple Basic Set in the basement.One woman joined a group we were in because the DM gave her an ultimatum.  She used to come watch her fiancee play in our group and would make suggestions - usually excellent ones that drove the DM crazy.  The DM finally told her she either had to roll up a character or keep quiet.My current large group started out with four women (my wife is one) and five men.  One woman just came for the gaming, and when later she met and married a guy who also gamed, he joined our group.  Another came with her significant other, but they had been a gaming couple for years.  The other woman played as a way to introduce her husband to gaming.  She played although she was never all that interested in it, but knew her husband would enjoy it.  Once he felt comfortable with the group, she dropped out.</blockquote>

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