Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1887639" data-attributes="member: 10201">That may be true as a generalization, but it's far from universal. I'm basically the same age, and when i started RPing, it was becaues it had spread to my group of friends. We all started at basically the same time, and the initial group was 3 guys and one girl (plus my little brother and a friend of his, also male). All the way through middleschool and highschool, we had at least one girl involved, and usually 3-5 (out of groups of 6-12). In college, the ratios stayed about the same, for me: between 1/3 and 1/2 women in just about every group. I knew of several all-male gaming groups in college (and one 3-guy group in highschool), but i never personally was involved in them.  I always thought it was a mystery, reading articles about the dearth of female players in Dragon--because i'd never run into it. We didn't go to any special effor to recruit girls, it was just a matter of asking friends/acquaintances that you thought would enjoy it to join in. Some were girls/women. I always wondered how many of those people lamenting the lack of women in their gaming group had tried inviting women.   Two other female-gamer anecdotes. I have one gamer friend who not only got into RPGs for her own sake, but had to do it *against* the wishes of the guys. She is the only gamer i've personally met who actually ran into the "this is for guys only" thing when she discovered RPGs in highschool and wanted to give them a try. Which is doubly-bizarre because she's hot. (Really: how many single highschool guys do you know who would turn down an attractive single girl spending time with them?) Anyway, when she got to college, she'd read several RPGs, but only gotten to play in one campaign, because of the guys-only mentality. Weird.  Secondly, there's a peculiar personality type WRT gaming that i've only run into in women (not to say there aren't similar guys). I've had two good friends repeatedly turn down invites to join the gaming group because they know they'd love it. That is, because they agree with my assessment that it'd be a perfect match, and also know that they'd end up spending a *lot* of time at it, and just don't have the time. I seriously doubt this is a gender-linked trait (whether for reasons of breeding or upbringing), but i've never had a guy say that.</blockquote>

Verification