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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1720411" data-attributes="member: 707"><p>This, I think, is the most important bit of advice in this thread so far. Many men fail to do women well, mainly because they are trying too hard. Yes, men and women are different, but in the scope of D&D you aren't going to be able to deal with those kinds of subtleties. And trying often leads to oversimplification and exaggeration that results in a <em>less</em> accurate portrayal. So the best way to play a good female PC...is to not try and play a female PC.</p><p></p><p>My advice, for what it's worth, is to restrict your "gender-thinking" to a character's backstory. Consider the status of women in the character's society, and build an appropriate backstory that takes that into account. </p><p></p><p>For instance, in a traditional medieval setting, women were expected to marry and have children above all else. So you might create a character who <em>had</em> a family, but lost her family to a fire. Or perhaps she is estranged. Or perhaps she was a newlywed, but her husband went missing in a foreign war. Perhaps she is barren, and was cast out by her husband for being unable to have children. Then build the PC from there.</p><p></p><p>Once you actually start playing, don't worry about the PC being a woman, concentrate on playing a PC who lost her family to a fire, or lost her loved one in a foreign war, or cannot have children. You'll be closer to the mark, because you'll be dealing with issues that are gender-specific. But you won't fall into the trap of constantly trying to adjust your role-playing to fit a preconceived notion of how women should behave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 1720411, member: 707"] This, I think, is the most important bit of advice in this thread so far. Many men fail to do women well, mainly because they are trying too hard. Yes, men and women are different, but in the scope of D&D you aren't going to be able to deal with those kinds of subtleties. And trying often leads to oversimplification and exaggeration that results in a [i]less[/i] accurate portrayal. So the best way to play a good female PC...is to not try and play a female PC. My advice, for what it's worth, is to restrict your "gender-thinking" to a character's backstory. Consider the status of women in the character's society, and build an appropriate backstory that takes that into account. For instance, in a traditional medieval setting, women were expected to marry and have children above all else. So you might create a character who [i]had[/i] a family, but lost her family to a fire. Or perhaps she is estranged. Or perhaps she was a newlywed, but her husband went missing in a foreign war. Perhaps she is barren, and was cast out by her husband for being unable to have children. Then build the PC from there. Once you actually start playing, don't worry about the PC being a woman, concentrate on playing a PC who lost her family to a fire, or lost her loved one in a foreign war, or cannot have children. You'll be closer to the mark, because you'll be dealing with issues that are gender-specific. But you won't fall into the trap of constantly trying to adjust your role-playing to fit a preconceived notion of how women should behave. [/QUOTE]
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