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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 1881956" data-attributes="member: 1515">I've known quite a few female gamers, of all stripes...First of all, my wife.  She started playing D&D with her high school friends, years before I met her.  (In fact, I met her through one of her HS friends, who became part of my D&D group when he went off to college...but I already posted that in the "Love Story" thread in the Off-Topic Forum).  We've been married for 12 years; in that time, she's gotten more and more into RPGs.  I'm sure part of it was a desire to share my hobby with me, but she's now the person who pushes me to run games more often.  She loves writing her characters' backstories, and now, I'd bet that she'd even consider playing in a game without me, with the right DM.My ex-girlfriend was a gamer, too.  She was dating one of the other guys in our group, and he brought her along, into the game -- so, she did start out as a "SO gamer".  But, she rapidly became more "into" RPGs than her boyfriend was.  About the time he dropped out of our group (due to serious personality conflicts -- he was a jerk), she broke up with him, and stayed in our group (and started dating me, too).  Even after she and I broke up, she kept playing for many years.  I've lost touch with her over the past few years, so I have no idea if she's still playing today.Three of my best friends are female gamers, whom I've played with in various groups over the years.  In each case, their husbands are also gamers.  In two cases, the women (while single) joined gaming groups, and met their future husbands in the group.  In the third case, the woman started gaming through co-workers, and dragged her husband along into it.In the groups I currently play with, there are two other female gamers.  One is single, and started playing with us years ago, when a (platonic) male friend, who's in our group, invited her to join us.  She enjoys playing, but I suspect she's in it more for the camaraderie than for the game itself.  The other woman is a friend of my wife's.  Last year, I bought the Stargate SG-1 RPG, and she saw it at our house, and asked if we were going to play it (she's a huge Stargate fan).  Well, I'm not running Stargate, but I invited her to join one of our D&D groups, and she's having a ball -- though, I suspect, if my wife wasn't there, Barb wouldn't be there, either.</blockquote>

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