Would your group stop a woman from joining?

[Mixmaster]

NEVER!! We have one now and at our peak, we had a majority!!!

 

[Numion]

Personally, not really, no. If I want to go drink in a pub I can do it with my wife & her giant Texan (female) friend and have at least as good a time as with male friends.

So can I. Not with your wife, mind you, but with my GF and her friends. Of course I have great time with my GF. But hanging out with male friends is different - not better. It just caters to different needs. We get to talk about different things our girls would not be interested in.

We usually go to clubs with our significant others - so thats not a male activity. For us, D&D is.

Maybe if my wife was a very girly-girl it might be different, but we're not that different in what we like and I don't feel the need to 'escape' from her.

Its not about escaping, for me at least. Some others in my group .. I dont know

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I do not think that I have ever been in a group that did not accept female players. Most of my games have had female players.

Some groups that frightened the female players away with pure concentrated nerdity? Yes, not encourage them to play? No. Though in truth not many have been frightened away...

I have seen a greater percentage of male hack 'n' slashers, but not too many of those either, and they tended to be younger players. My style of play does not really encourage the kick open the door approach...

The Auld Grump

 

[S'mon]

So can I. Not with your wife, mind you, but with my GF and her friends. Of course I have great time with my GF. But hanging out with male friends is different - not better. It just caters to different needs. We get to talk about different things our girls would not be interested in.

I somewhat know what you mean, but my really old & good friends are back in Ulster so I can only hang out with them by Internet.

 

[The_Gneech]

Actually, assuming the player is a good player, I can't imagine turning them away for any reason -- finding good players of any gender is HARD!

-The Gneech

 

[Grazzt]

Wouldn't (and haven't ever) stopped a chick from playing in my campaign (sister used to play 1E with us back in the 80s...my wifey plays now, and my 10 yr old daughter may start). Their characters die just as painfully or quickly as anyone elses.

 

[was]

We've always had good experiences with female gamers in our group.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Actually, assuming the player is a good player, I can't imagine turning them away for any reason -- finding good players of any gender is HARD!

-The Gneech

Hear, Hear! I wish wish wish I had the group I ran a few years back... three women and two men. There are currently no female players in my group, and I miss 'em!

 

[TerraDave]

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Ok, here goes:

You should have added the right woman, it could have only made the mix all the more interesting. Pretty much anyone, once told the premise of the game and still willing to play, would probably make it more interesting.

 

[sniffles]

They very definitely _don't_ do intraparty relationships!
In fact it seems a lot of these "men only" groups don't do relationships between PCS & NPCs either, after all _the GM is a guy_, so that would be creepy/yucky/pervy. Apparently.

I started out as the only female in my group, but fortunately the guys I play with don't think that way. I'm currently running a male PC in one game, and my character is married to a NPC female so the male GM (who's married to one of the other players now) has to deal with the whole relationship thing. In another campaign, a male player running a male PC and my fiancee running a female PC had a romance. I didn't think it was a problem at all, and neither did anyone else.

The only kind of player who should be excluded IMHO is someone who isn't fun to play with. But I think people have a right to exclude anyone they want. It's your social life; you don't have to spend your time with anyone you don't want to.

But I don't want to meet you if you exclude people just because they're female/male/gay/straight etc.