GenCon: D&D introduction for women
Since I'm the resident D&D expert between ShoshieB1 and me, I told her I would run a session at GenCon to introduce D&D to women and girls. I've got ideas brewing, but this site is a great resource for honing and building ideas from the community on what would be good.
What I know for sure
I will have characters already created because character creation with people who have never played before would be challenging enough to get into the time frame.
What I'm considering
Since the players are going to likely be all new to D&D, I'm thinking about all of the characters being either a fighter, a rogue, a cleric, or a wizard to keep things less complex.
The story will be something with a traditional or stereotypical D&D slant like rescuing someone from a dungeon or retrieving a magic item from a dungeon. Would it be appealing or annoying if all the characters were female and were tasked to rescue a prince in a sort of role-reversal from fairy tales.
The setting will likely be one of my own creation but using the pantheon from Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous (the best gaming book I own, I believe).
Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?
Rescue the Princess
Truthfully, I would be no more annoyed at asking to rescue a fairy tale prince than a princess. It would more depend on how the adventure and rescue were presented.
introductory characters
You could make up enough character sheets for everyone to have a choice on whether they want to play a male or female character.