The First Female Gamers

[X-pert74]

medium.com/@increment/the-first-female-gamers-c784fbe3ff37#.qdjxbdaut

This article is mostly related to wargaming and tabletop role-playing stuffs, so I'm posting it here in the Off-Topic board. I found it really interesting, though, to see how gaming progressed, particularly during the 1950s-1970s, and how female gamers became more and more commonplace thanks in part to D&D.

[earthphantomts]

Hmm, it is rather interesting.

You know, one thing that I think I enjoyed more about D&D and stuff than, say, board games, was that it was kinda a collective story-telling medium. Like, people can really immerse themselves into a role and story and such, if that makes sense. Though, I'll confess: I also didn't really like to compete much, so D&D being cooperative kinda helped me get interested.

Also, as crazy as it sounds, I wouldn't mind playing the "beauty witch" character that people even back then didn't like that they talked about partway through the article. But, then, I've always been kinda sex-addled. My characters always end up sort of like that, though I prefer prepared spellcasters so it's not as efficient :/.

But then, that's the beauty of modern gaming: you can be that character easily if you WANT to, but (ideally) nobody FORCES you to.  But, then, you also shouldn't be forced to NOT be that character in these types of games I think.

EDIT: Just to make sure you know what I mean about "playing the 'beauty witch' character", I'm talking about the one described in the article that was by Lenard Lakofka.  The one that people back then were like "It's sexist and stereotypical", you know?  And I'd give a link to that section, but the page doesn't have linkable sections (typed an "x" instead of a "c" at first, hee hee!  What a perfect time for a typo like that [facepalm]...)