Xuthl’s Wilderness Comics and Collectibles Comic Reviews


Is Dungeons and Dragons for Homosexuals?
July 23, 2008, 7:17 pm
Filed under: Dungeons and Dragons | Tags: , , , , , ,

I have been playing strategy and role playing games for 20+ years now.  A more recent variant on these activities is online games and play by posts (where you post your actions by email).  I have actually been doing this for 7 or 8 years now.

 

One of the really strange things I have noticed is that guys who play these types of games online have a real tendency to want to play female characters.  What the hell is up with that?  I have one player who has played dungeons and dragons with us for about six years, and he will play a chick about 85% of the time.  I am also currently in an Age of Appocolypse play by post game where several of the players are playing female characters.  Another D&D player who has been part of our group for about 7 ½ years also will play female about 50% of the time, and one guy who has been with my D&D group from the beginning has recently started playing female characters as well. 

 

Are these guys are fruits?  Are they “gay and don’t know it”?  What is the reason behind this?  I just find it curious that this occurs in this particular genre of gaming with such frequency.  Can anybody explain it?