{"id":5597,"date":"2004-02-13T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/02\/13\/women-in-gaming.html"},"modified":"2004-02-13T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T18:13:33","slug":"women_in_gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/13\/women_in_gaming.html","title":{"rendered":"Women in Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

20×20 is running a series <\/a>of posts <\/a>on Women in Gaming.<\/p>\n

I guess this was never much of an issue for me. Though it was the early 80s, I started gaming in college, so the Girls are Scary\/Icky thang was never much of an issue. <\/p>\n

In most of the games I played in, women were a definite presence and influence. Some of them (usually the less successful) were there strictly as girlfriends of the GM or other players, but there were definitely a goodly number of strong women players involved — one of whom turns out to be my wife<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(The couple of exceptions, a few one-shot thangs early on, were not all that enjoyable, as they were mostly power-gaming uber-alpha-geek killer dungeon crawls. Bleah.)<\/p>\n

I even ran a campaign (ADRPG) back in California where the majority of the players turned out to be women. Me and the other token male were not only unthreatened, we enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Here in Colorado, between Margie and Jackie and Lori (and the other Lori, whom I’ve not played with, and the now-moved-away Juli, [update: and Amanda who I’d love to run in another game some time<\/i>]), there have always been plenty of women-folk at the table. Frankly, I can’t imagine it any other way, nor do I particularly want to, and I suspect that Katherine will, with time (and, hopefully, interest) join us there.<\/p>\n

Never have given it much of a second thought, to be honest. Just the way things are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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