Second: I’d congratulate TSR for its progressiveness if I wasn’t sure that including both sexes as players was merely an effort to enlarge market share. (The commercial actually suggests cross-gender role-playing, though it’s probably just how post-production shook out: it cuts from the non-blazered girl to the only unambiguously male character, the bearded magic-user.)

Third: My comment was meant to be a joke, though in actuality all the girls I’ve known who played (a cousin, two sisters, a sister’s friend, and a mom’s friend’s friend’s daughter) were one-and-done with the experience, like maryc above. I’ve known a handful of women who played, but the only females who seemed to find pleasure in it were adults.

Fourth: My wife, too, is a gamer, though not of the D&D sort.

Fifth: Jeff, where do you get your statistics (I assume 2.3% is a typo for 23%)? How on earth could you actually tally all the players of the game?

Sixth: (Revealing shameful depth of nerdiness) The commercial kids are playing “Keep on the Borderlands”: there’s no dragon involved in that module!

And as far as girls playing D&D, maybe I’m just more fortunate than most, but I have known at least a dozen women who play or have played the game.

And I married one of ‘em.

So nyeah.

The choice of “populate” was probably a projection on my part, for the same reason. Filled up Justice, Freedom & Virtue, though, so I suspect we haven’t crossed paths.

Hey! I got my first D&D box set (the red one) more than 20 years ago!

Then again, I am hideous…

Oh lordy. My main character is on Liberty, but it’s been awhile since I played her. Right now, I’m working on leveling a character up on Champion, and I play on Infinity a lot.

You?

mikey

mikey

What server(s) you populate most often?

(And I think I’ve seen elfs get eaten by zombies in CoH, too…)

Oh the sweet sweet competition between nerd, dweeb and geek.

The West Coast has It’s-Its. That counts for a lot in my book.

But rejoice that you live in the era of the Internets!

http://www.moo-oink.com

My brother made me play D&D once. I was an elf and I think I got eaten by zombies. I’m not really clear on what happened, exactly.

I never did get the gist of the whole game, so that was my one and only time playing D&D.

Give me mmporgs like CoH over D&D any old day.

mikey