RPG = Role Playing Girl

Question: Changing Experiences

2007-11-06T08:46:00.000-08:00

Tell us:

How has your experience, as a gamer-girl, a gamer-teen, and now a gamer-woman, changed over the years?

Post your answer in the comments, and we'll choose a selection of the answers for publication. Please be sure to include your first name and last initial in your post, and keep it to under 100 words (or we'll excerpt it for you). By posting, you consent to publication in the RPG = Role Playing Girl anthology. If you do not wish your answer published, please explicitly indicate that in your post.

Question: The Difference

2007-11-06T08:43:00.000-08:00

Tell us:

Do you think women play differently than men?

Question: Men Playing Women

2007-11-06T08:42:00.000-08:00

Tell us:

What's it like watching men play women?

Question: Advice

2007-11-06T08:41:00.000-08:00

Tell us:

What advice would you give to women who want to try role-playing games?

Question: Why Play

2007-11-06T08:40:00.001-08:00

Tell us:

Why do you play role-playing games?

Question: Favorite Characters

2007-11-06T08:39:00.000-08:00

Tell us:

Who is your favorite character?

Question: Being The Only Woman

2007-11-06T08:37:00.000-08:00

Tell us:

What's it like being the only woman at the table?

Question: Starting to Game

2007-10-29T10:01:00.001-07:00

Tell us:

How old were you when you started gaming, and what did you first play?

Call for Papers

2007-10-15T14:57:00.000-07:00

Meguey writes:

Role-playing, as a hobby with books and tools and industry support, has been around my whole life. I got my first taste of organized pretend and written down characters at age 7, when I made my first D&D character. I've always played in groups of girls and boys, men and women. To me, the notion that women are a minority in the world of role-playing was an odd one, but I look around me now, and it's pretty clear. The top names and top games are made by and marketed to, primarily, men. Here's the weird bit, though: I keep finding more and more and more women gamers.

It seems like a natural progression, to us. Women gamers talk, play games, design games, hang out together, sell games, discuss games, think about being women in a strongly male hobby - and write a book about it.

The RPG = Role Playing Girl project was born on a hot August afternoon. We've got a lot to say about being women who happen to game, and we'd like to hear from you, too. Our current focus is table-top face-to-face, but writing about LARP and on-line and other forms of rpgs is more than welcome. We're looking for short essays, 500-2500 words in length, about your personal experience as a woman gamer. Deadline for submissions is MARCH 21, 2008. Topics might be, or be inspired by:

How it Began
My Character, My Self
No Girls Allowed
Woman in a Man's Game
Power through Pretend
What's Happening Now
You Can Do It, Too

You're a woman who plays role-playing games, right? So what's up with that? What's your story? Send it in, and let the world know.

(FAQs to follow as we get them.)