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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2173871" data-attributes="member: 5143">Slightly off topic, but I'm willing to answer.It's because every woman to join my group has always been this way.  I think it had a lot to do with the fact that all of them learned the rules while playing with us.  Most of them joined because they liked fantasy art or fantasy literature.  They didn't know how to min-max, since they didn't know the rules.  Plus, they were all about exploring the STORY behind their characters.  They came up with the oddest stories(these are all real characters played by women in my groups):"I am a pixie, with magical powers and a real trickster""I am a handmaiden to a princess trying to find my own way in the world""I am a druid, looking to protect nature and make the world a better place for animals""I am a cleric of an evil god, but not evil myself.  I did not know that he was evil and was decieved into worshipping him."Whereas my male friends play:"Ugh, the half-orc barbarian who has a strength of 24 and likes to hit things with his axe"We've actually had women kinda phase out and stop paying attention during the battle portions of the game.  They'd start talking to each other as they didn't much care about the dice rolling.  None of them ever really enjoyed the rules portion of the game enough to actually READ the PHB, so we'd have to tell them what their pluses to hit were each round of combat.I've known ONE woman who actually knew the rules well enough to min-max and she knew the rules before joining our game.  She still concentrates more on the story than the guys in our group and when she DMs she gets corrected by the players in it (all guys) fairly often and we've taken to giving her enemies tactical advice on how to best beat us.</blockquote>

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