Diversity and dragons: gender equality and roleplaying games

If it isn't obvious from this blog, I'm a great big geek. One of my geeky passions is to play roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons and Vampire the Masquerade. But I was just reading something online about the number of women that feel uncomfortable about getting involved in roleplaying games - and that they feel it's an exclusively male pursuit.

Well if you feel this way, or know someone who does, I highly recommend watching the online show Critical Role. It's basically a group of geeky actors (you might recognize some of them) who play Dungeons and Dragons every week, and half of them are women. Seriously, there are a lot of women roleplayers/gamers.

If you need more evidence, below is my current roleplaying group - men are the minority (the costumes are from a party - they don't always dress like that). There are also A LOT of university degrees shared between them.

So don't fall for the stereotype that that 20-sided dice carrying geeks are mostly male, there is a lot more diversity than you think. For we are geeks, and we are legion !