From: aw0991@thor.albany.edu (Airborne)
Subject: Re: Sex and RPG's - Why Oh Why ?
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 18:04:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.010751@kazoo.ssd.loral.com> brunner@kazoo.ssd.loral.com (Brian Brunner) writes:
>Remember when we played tanks & guns & rocketships?
>Our sisters were playing house with dolls.
>Sometimes we would join the "house" game,
>sometimes they played our games with us.
>No absolutes implied here...
>but would YOU play "Barbie: The Role Playing Game"?
>Or "The House that Wouldn't Stay Clean"?
>for most of us guys, "Doctor" is as close as we're willing
>to get to playing a game we played with girls.
>
>Our RPGs continue much of what we have always liked,
>and they contain little (relatively, mind you) of what the
>girls liked. So on that note alone it is little suprise to me
>that more guys than gals get into RPGs. My wife wouldn't
>have, if I weren't in it and that tells more of one story.
>That is partly because she had two children (now: 5.5, hits
>6 in August) and little screamers make hell out of a tense
>combat moment. Shadowrun and Pottyrun don't mix.
>This is why my wife & I play mostly just the two of us.
>
>Another factor is the marketing of the games. Here I draw
>mostly from my AD&D experience... which says enough right
>there; but I'll say more, anyhow.
>If you are ROLE-players, and are GUYS, and play a female
>character, and if one of the players is a gal... have you ever
>(if not, try!) talked to the gal(s) about how realistic your
>protrayal of womanhood (in the context of the game senario) is?
>I've seen lots that play gals like gals thought with their tits just
>the way the player thinks with his dick.
>
>Scene (doesn't matter what game system or setting):
>"You walk into what used to be a town. Earthquake plus
>firestorm plus tax collectors have been here". What do we do?
>look for a bar that rents rooms for the night. Jeesh. How often
>are your female characters moved to compassion for the
>widows and orphans? Have you ever answered:
>"Screw the duke, he can get a new daughter and have fun trying.
>Jake, Paula, pass the word around. We're setting up a hospital
>and shelter there. Grunt, Slammer, take that building apart
>the rest of the way and lay out the beams and boards. Keep
>the pieces as big and as good as possible. I'll go pound stakes
>for cornerstones. Mumbledigits, if we dig a trench can you put
>a wall of something into it to give shelter? DM... we'll be here
>three weeks."
>Yeah, guys can be thus moved to action, let me stick out
>my neck and say, in general gals are more so inclined. The
>usual game does not make room for this mentality.
>
>Have a nice day.
>
>
>--
>HELP!! Somebody slapped a "stop payment" on my sanity check!!
>brunner@kazoo.ssd.loral.com; Space Systems/Loral; Palo Alto, Calif.
>Black Holes... the /dev/null of the Universe; the opinion of 65534.

I thought that also at one time. To my surprize, there are a lot of women
gamers.

In the game I am playing now, we have two women players and their pressence
adds a lot to the game.

Also, at the I-CON convention there were a LOT of way kool babes who gamed.
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