A Letter to the Gaming Industry
Filamena Young, who I had interacted with before on the RPG.net blogs, forwarded me a new blog on wordpress called A Letter to the Gaming Industry. If you click the link you'll find an open letter to...
View ArticleKagematsu: Encouraging Cross-Play
A friend of mine told me about this game a while ago called Kagematsu, which in the rules requires cross play. I think here is the latest website I found for Kagematsu, but on this wordpress blog are...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #5
I really loved reading last week's discussion, I hope to get another one just as good going.Question of the WeekHow much have you seen video games affect female participation in your table top RPG...
View ArticleChris Christensen: Gaming Industry Woman
I stopped by GamesPlus in Mount Prospect to see if any of the gaming sages there would be able to help the 20 Sided Women Project, and the wife of one of the employees, Chris, was happy to respond....
View ArticleGeek Social Skills: are they keeping female gamers away?
As my friend Joel pointed out, gamer stereotypes can hurt female participation in the RPG world. But is it partly due to social skills?One of my faithful readers, F. Douglas Wall, sent me a link to an...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #6
The Boyfriend told me that my post yesterday made women sound shallow. That was definitely not my intention, but I can see how my entry could've been construed that way. If I offended anyone with it,...
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Come to Wolfcon V
I am going to Wolfcon this year, and hoping to be able to talk to gamers about women in the industry. I'm coordinating with them to see if I will do a panel discussion or something else. Something...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #7
Hello Everyone, It's time for another Question of the Week.Do you think that women are more open about their hobby when it comes to table top RPGs than men, or less so? Why do you think that is?Also,...
View ArticleA little something I appreciate about the RPG Industry
I was just noticing that although the RPG community would love to more consistently get female gamers, they've taken a strikingly different route than the video game community. Let's think about this....
View ArticleMore on WolfCon: Happenings and My Involvement
I understand that my last post on WolfCon may have seemed a bit random, but I assure you it has some purpose here. The weekend after Thanksgiving Thursday I am going to be at WolfCon to talk to people...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #8
Sorry this is late, I posted it in the wrong blog. But here is it in all its glory.Do you think that the female presence in the RPG industry needs to be stronger, or is the presence strong...
View ArticleA Thesis I Should've Written.
The only reason I say that is that this thesis I found is essentially an ethnography of women in table top gaming. It's titled ENCOUNTERS AT THE IMAGINAL CROSSROADS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #9
I am sorry that the question is late: I am recovering from a very busy weekend from my job and sometimes you need to clear your head of thinking for a while so you can restart it. It's a bit like...
View ArticleLanguage an indicator?
This is merely a pondering of mine, but it is something I should investigate at a later date. In linguistics in college I remember hearing about the different ways boys and girls would talk to teach...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #10
The idea for this came from me finding out about Google Wave, and how some people are already using it to run table top RPGs online.Do you think that it's easier to have player gender matter less when...
View ArticleThe WolfCon Plan
Hello all.As I mentioned before, I am going to WolfCon to get some interviews and to have some general fun. I was talking with one of the guys who's running the Con and we're going to see if there's a...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #11
I will be writing about WolfCon in the next coming days, including a great interview I got while I was there. I also had some great experiences with people in general, and who could not resist a...
View ArticleThe Only Girl At The Table
Part of the reason I asked my question of the week (seen in my previous post) is because for the two RPGs that I participated in at WolfCon I was the only girl. I have never been uncomfortable in...
View ArticleSorry for the absence
I want to apologize for the week and a half without any kind of post. My hours at work have increased, I need a break from my extracirriculars for that week.I don't want this to happen again, and I...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #12
Let's get back in gear!This Question of the Week is inspired by an article that The Boyfriend shared with me. You can read it here. It regards to sexuality in video games, and how two-dimensional...
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