Girl-friendly Game Ideas

[Humphrey Boggard]

blackbloodtroll wrote:

Rynjin wrote:

Have a Hello Kitty/My Little Pony crossover mystery about who stole the cupcakes.

I would totally play in this campaign.

I'm in too but my girlfriend can never know.

[Gnomezrule]

No one has volunteered for the druid with the carebear animal companion Humphrey.

[bojac6]

I haven't completely caught up, but I do want to weigh in.

1. Don't treat her any differently than you would any other new player. My gaming group is an even split, genderwise, and everyone has fun. I don't cater to the women players anymore than the male ones.

2. Don't GM her first game. Have a friend do it and play with her. But don't be her first GM. You're not impartial. It's so easy for players, especially new ones, to interpret fairness as meanness in a GM. She has every right as a new player to ask for some help, guidance, and to ask the GM for some leeway. And if it were me with some random new player, I'd be nice for a bit until it was time for that new player to pick up the slack. If it's with a girlfriend (or worse yet, a crush that isn't yet your girlfriend) then it's so hard to keep things fair.

I'd have a friend run something that's fun and treat her like any new player.

[AlgaeNymph]

Mentioning "My Little Pony" and "cupcakes" in the same sentence brings to mind the witch's 'cook people' hex from Ultimate Magic.