Female Wizard, Male Druid.

[Alexander123]

What is the tendency of D&D characters to play female wizards and male druids as opposed to the opposite?

The reason I say this is because wizards are generally weak in combat as opposed to the druid and no girl can be attracted to a guy she can beat up.

And a guy generally is not attracted to a girl who can beat him up. (and girls are attracted?)

 

[Rhun]

I think you're bringing a little bit too much real-life expectation into a fantasy game. With that said, I see more male wizards and female druids in D&D games.

 

[kitcik]

My current party is:
Male monk
Male bard
Male ranger
Male wizard
Female druid

I would say the druid's I have seen have been disproportionately women, while the wizards have been male/female in about the same proportion to the gender of the players I have played with.

I have never seen what you are describing.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

In my experience, class genders have been very roughly as follows:

barbarians - mostly men
bards - mostly women
clerics - split
druids - mostly men
fighters - split
monks - mostly men
paladins - mostly men
rangers - split
rogues - split
sorcs - mostly women
wizards - mostly men

But I'm not at all certain what attraction has to do with it..?

 

[Alexander123]

Druids generally remind of men like wolverine. While female sorcs generally remind me of women like jean grey.

I just thought what class you choose may play a role in what gender you choose.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Ah, I see what you mean. As for me personally, I usually think of a character in general (includng race and gender) first, then match a class to that concept based on the features and their flavor (or the flavor I give them, more likely). So in my mind at least, there's not a whole lot of correlation between race/gender and class-- most of the time anyway.

It's interesting, actually. When I think "druid" I immediately picture a character more like a wizard or something, with a staff and robe and all (I think that comes from the druid pictured in the Companion (iirc) set of BECM). Result is that I tend to use a nature-base cleric rather than the druid class to play what is a "druid" in my mind. But I understand your point: to emulate a character like Wolverine, I'd likely use the druid class, or certainly consider it.

 

[Noctos]

fighter- either
mage-either
bard- wouldn't
thief- male
pally- man
druid-female
necro- male
ranger-female
monk-wouldn't
Enchanter-female
elementalist-female
priest-male
swordmage-male


most often that would be it

 

[Alexander123]

priest-male

priestess-female

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Funny for me about this is that I've played with a LOT of players who do not play across gender lines. I've even had DMs that forbid playing across gender lines. So as a result, players' PC choices are nearly always of the same sex as they are.

And since most of the gamers I've gamed with are males...

 

[Noctos]

And since most of the gamers I've gamed with are males...

my last game had 5 females and 7 males in it. i gues me and my friends just know more hot nerdy girls than you