Curious as to what the male:female ratio is within Shadowrun. Straight-forward question. I would think that there isn't a huge female audience, but then again... that's the whole point of this post.

Oh man, don't tell me that I need third and fourth options.

well in my group we have 5 guys and 2 girls, unfortunatly the females havent picked up on the wonder of DS so i thought id post that they exist

Need third option for Saturday nights. Please modify poll, you insensitive clod.

I've only just started reading again after a long hiatus, but if you had been around a year or two ago you'd know this question couldn't possibly be as straightforward as it first seems.

Still, the less said about that the better.

That said, I'm male.

[EDIT:]Now that I look, it appears that you have been around a year or two, also, I use too many commas[\EDIT]

I wonder what would it mean if you went with Null vote.

I'm shocked. I can't be the only geekgirl on DumpShock.

You aren't. However, you appear to be the only one on right now.

~J

Our group refers to Shadowrun as "SR".

Most girls I know, refer to it as "Playing Nerd Games".

As sausage-fests go, SR is better than most.

I rather not think too much about this topic.

Depressing read isn't it?

girl(s):"Guys what are you doing saturday night?"

us:... guess what

How explain it and keep it cool when they think about AD&D freaks?

anyway...

My gaming group is me (male, DM) and one male player, with three female players, for shadowrun. For D&D, it's the same, though it's a girl DMing and one of the girls switched out for another.

JaronK

My group is Gm (me, male); four Male Players, and two female Players.

I'm the only one who posts to DS.

for the record: my D&D group is five guys. the girls didn't want any of it.

Group is 2 guys, 2 girls. None post to DSF. Their loss.

I can't vote (it says I allready voted) so I'll post it here:

I gm SR for an all male group (from 4 to 6 persons). I'm a girl. None of my girlfriends is even remotely interested in gaming, and they have no idea I play SR or DnD.

There's a female going by the handle of Blitz who hangs with us in the "Welcome to the Shadows" section, but I don't think I've ever seen a post from her in this forum...

So I thought I'd make her known...

Well just thinking about it all you have to wonder that it is not imprtant to be a 'boy or 'girl' if you can play or have a good try thats the main thing! i love playing and im the only girl in the group, i have also played ciberpunk, rifts, and outhers and i have a kikarse chaos army in 40k. and i work for the government! tehe! i think it has affected my brain. I'M now off to do some science hehehehe (manical laghf!)

And there's always the problem that, as we saw in an earlier poll, it's mostly GMs on DS. So you're getting a biased sample. This is only good for telling DSer gender.

Not that this is scientific in any way, shape or form, but shmeh...

As for me, it depends on which Shadowrun game I've run. Right now I'm standing at two gals, four guys, but previously I've had greater numbers with a higher ratio of females to males.

I've got one female player in my group, and I had to marry her to get her to play : ( I have no idea what favors I'll have to dish out should I decide to invite a second girl in.

Oh, i see. But having a job which allows you to game is very nice, i think. (if i understand you correct and you're gaming at your working hours).

yeah , SR isnt in the job description but we manage to play on the clock. We have actually had guests recognize the stuff we play starwars/card games/ SR etc and sit down and talk about the games. Its disturbing how many people actually play some of these games. Had some lady watch us play Doom (the board game) last weekend.

Our group of 7 has 1 girl.

That being said we need a transgender option or two...It is only fair.

Male GM here, with 5 total players, 3 male, 2 female. I'm about to lose one of the guys, though, he's being shipped to Kosovo, which sucks. FWIW, though, it appears all the guys are far more combat and tech oriented, while the females are psuedo pacifists and very deep into the social skills. Overall it makes for a good mix in an SR group, but I forsee Mars and Venus rearing their ugly heads before long.

In the game I'll be (hopefully) starting soon, there'll be 3 or 4 males (including me, the GM) and 1 female. There's another girl in our gaming group, but she categorically refuses to play Shadowrun. Wierd.

Have you asked her why?

~J

No we don't need a trangender option. You vote with the gear God gave you and leave it at that. We don't care if you think your some kind of gender bender.

I've known a handful of female gamers over the years, but only a handful. Most are male.

...

I blame, uh, SOCIETY! Yeah, that's it.

Of course it doesn't help when guys pull the "OMG!!11! There R chix0rs! That r0x0rs!1!!" quote and scare away most normal girls...heck, that sorta reaction would scare away most normal PEOPLE.

Torz is so right...

I always wanted to play dnd but as a girl, having been to an all girl school, it's kinda difficult to find any group. And then if you find one, the guys are too afraid to talk (eek, it's -a girl- She must be stupid and not know anything about DnD *ignore*) Eventough I always wanted to... I had to trick some guy into taking me to his rp group, and eventually charm the dm to play dnd.

I bought SR because my boyfriend wanted to play it, and me to dm it... after I got the books, there's never been a chance for him to even touch them But I would never have bought them if he hadn't said that he'd read cool stuff about it.

So... rp is a guy's thing, at least where I live. And all the rp girls I met seem very different than me. I've only seen gothic fem rp'ers up till now. Is this normal?

I know rather a lot of female gamers. Most of them aren't in my groups (though I did have a group that was female-weighted once), but they're out there.

~J

"I am a meat popsicle."

Heh, it's true a lot of guys are intimidated by female roleplayers.
Partially because guys know that they shouldn't be making all the same crude jokes that might otherwise be said (regardless of the pre-existing condition of making those jokes).

Personally, I'd love to see more girls in my gaming group, we just don't know any that can show up on a regular basis.

I confess to being a wee bit intimidated by female gamers, but only when they're "One-Offs."

See, I often play female characters (to represent gender splits equally) and I feel if there's a lass in the group they'll see through my poor portrayal of their gender - although I religiously try to avoid either the "Butch Lesbian" or "Exotic Amazon" stereotypes.

We had a regular chick playing in our group for a little. Scary thing was, she was totally girly in the RL, but once things got going she was the most bloodthirsty of the bunch. She thought up things that made hard-ass, insensitive a-holes shudder. Kinda that ruthless animal cunning thing.

Got the wife to play once. Did really good, but didn't like the hours.

Torz, you got a gummint job? What do you do?