Re: [DL] women & men playing preferences (OT)

["Ben Rasmussen" <nyddoybdyle@hotmail.com>]

> > most starting male players would probably play a
> > gunslinger over a saloon gal, and most starting female
> > players would probably play a saloon gal over a
> > gunslinger, and i'm only guessing at this probability
>

My one and only female player plays a gunslinger. Only one in the Posse too,
well aside from the Bandito maybe. For anyone who's been skimmin' the posts
about my sunday sessions, the Character Max is played by a gal.

She's also relatively new to RPG's so it's hard to say how much of her play
style can be attributed to sex vrs getting the 'hang of it'. I've seen new
male players play alot the same way.

But I would have to say, female gamers tend to be less gung ho.  Guys just
like to wreck stuff. If it moves, they kill it. If it doesn't move, they
attack it till it does, then they kill it.

Or a much more civilized way to put all that... Women tend to take the
story/plot/setting as it's given and work with it. Men tend to try and take
charge of the story/plot/setting and force it to do what they want. Being
only players this leaves men with usually just one recource, brute force.


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