On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 02:10:52AM -0500, Joseph R. Dietrich wrote: >In all cases I've noticed no difference in gaming style that could be >attributed to male/femaleness. Virtually every difference seemed more driven >by personality traits unrelated to gender. This has been my general experience as well. Of the groups I'm involved with, one has two female members and the other two are all-male. The only exception is that I haven't gamed with a female hack-and-slasher (though I have _met_ Mary Gentle :-) - then again, I haven't gamed with a male one since university. >I have only ever regularly gamed with friends, or strangers that were >friends of other friends (and therefore were already vetted in terms of >personality, sense of humor, and so on). Same here. I wouldn't hang around with people _just_ for gaming; there have always been enough gamers available (either in person or over the net) that I didn't have to take the first role-player or group I met. >I've only gamed a few times with >people I didn't really know, and in every instance I can't say that I >enjoyed myself. I've had some good games at conventions, but they're a very different sort of experience. >One of the things I never really liked about online shared-world-games is >that you are forced to play with a bunch of people that aren't your friends. >Sure, you can meet some nice people and make some new friends, but much of >the time you just run in to total bastards. By my definition, that's called >"Real Life", and for me the whole point of role-playing is to avoid *that* >for a few hours of the week. I hadn't looked at it that way, but I think that's quite valid; with a mailing-list game, you can go through the same process of feeling out fellow players as in a face-to-face one, but MMO games cannot allow that sort of filtering - they're much more like other video games in that way (with the trash-talking annoying kids, and so on) than they are like other role-playing games. -- Roger, gaming grognard Lots of role-playing stuff: http://tekeli.li/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
