I’m excited to be playing two demo games this weekend during the Contessa Spring Break event! I am finally going to get to try Night’s Black Agents and Trail of Cthulhu; two games that have been on my “to try” list for a very long time. I was looking over their schedule and while there are some great games schedule and everyone should jump on them if you have the time, I noticed a rather small number of GMs and huge windows of time where there were no games scheduled. This got me thinking about women gamers.

Is there really a shortage of women gamers, more specifically GMs? I know males, by sheer volume, make up the lion’s share of gamers and/or GMs, but are women that underrepresented in our hobby (RPGs)? Normally, many of the games I play have a number of women that sit at the virtual tables, so I guess I don’t see it on any regular basis. I hope over time that Contessa’s mission: ” We are passionately dedicated to increasing the visibility of women in tabletop gaming through leadership opportunities, community outreach, education, and woman-led gaming events.” continues to grow this segment of our hobby and move it in positive directions.

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Here’s the link to the Spring Break Events (already filtered for you).  Sign up and come play!

~ Modoc