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Doctoral Student Looking for Women to Interview
Know of a woman who played tabletop RPGs in the '70s or '80s?
I’m a doctoral student doing an historical research project on women who played tabletop roleplaying games (Dungeons and Dragons, for instance) in the '70s and '80s. Do you know of anyone I could interview? If so, send them my way! The interviews can take place in person or over Skype.
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The title and blurb pretty much say it all! If you would be willing to help a doctoral student out with a research project, you can probably find their contact information over on their website.




Annnnd, the blurb disappears in this view. The OP is looking for women who played tabletop RPGs in the 70's and 80's.
Paging @Tipa
lol... you know you're old when your demo becomes a historical research project.
Heh. I don't qualify. I had the original 1st ed. D&D books in the 80's because they just seemed so awesome. I read them and created dungeons and made up my own stories....but I didn't actually play. I lived out in the boonies and am an only child. I had no one to play with.
It wasn't until I was in college, in the 90's, that I actually played D&D for real, starting with 2nd ed.
I didn't play until college either, but at least it was still in the 80s :-)
We had an actual gaming club at U of New Hamster, with both men and women (though more men).
New Hamster? Is that a real place?
Well, it is if you live there. Just an inside joke.
The actual name for the place is Cow Hampshire :=)
I've never heard UNH called New Hamster (though I didn't go there and am not from Durhum), and was wondering if it was an entirely different place, or a funny autocorrect.
I used to hang out with nerds at Dartmouth, playing tabletop stuff. Not quite 70s and 80s though, so I don't qualify :)
Honestly, it was my dad who called it that and I just picked it up from him.
When I went to UNH, it was largely an agricultural school, and so we called it the U of Cow Hampshire because... cows... though really it was mostly actually crops.
My dad was big into the fiction that you could grow anything in New Hampshire soil. He wanted to have a big vegetable garden which, of course, we kids had to help weed and remove rocks from. I swear, the best crop we ever got out of that garden was rocks. There was a buried rock so large we could not move it. Dad said we had just discovered the buried peak of the fabled Mount Holloway.
No Dartmouth here, just public and state schools for me :( Could never afford all that ivy league stuff. I loved UNH.
Last time I was there, I saw that they now have a Holloway building. So touched they still remembered me.