: About Me

Being a woman and being a role-player makes one part of a minority, but does not make one a rarity. This is especially true for many of the more socially-oriented games, but not necessarily. Female players may be playing the erudite artisan of the vampire court one night and having fun slicing up orcs in a game of old-fashioned Dungeons & Dragons the next. The danger of discussing women in role-playing as a rarity is that it sets them apart even further than they already are. They become both more and less than the male players. They are often defined by their gender and can add a strange ...