Author: Tadeusz (---.84.226)
Date: 01-31-2002 12:20
This does not relate to Hilary's most recent article, but to her column as the place to discuss the intersection of females and gaming, it does.
I've noticed, of the few females I've gamed with, that a tendency to let slip small details of the setting such that I have to repeat the name of the tavern or such several times. I wonder if this is something other GM's or players can corrobrate, or if this is simply a phenomenon specific to a few players.
I do not say this to push females down past men at the gaming table("girls can sit down at the far end of the table away from the GM, and closest to the coffee pot so they can fetch refills easier." heh. While an amusing thought the women I know would either give me a cold stare or throw things at me, and rightly so.) But seriously, I find that sometimes advocates for women want to say that women are just as good as men, but that they can do these "fill-in-the-blank" things better. This sounds like woman are superior to men. I know that the woman I've gamed with have added elements to my games, and made them more flexible, and less hack-and-slash, but more accurately than that, less predictable. This is good, but what are the downsides?
Or are they really superior to men in every way? I might conceed superior, in all seriousness, but not in every way.
Tadeusz
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