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<blockquote data-quote="Roseweave" data-source="post: 6937296" data-attributes="member: 6806914"><p>With my character I used her Courtesan-ing(and general Bard-ing I guess) as an explanation for where random items came from, which sometimes just so happened to be plot relevant. She had a "Warddrobe of Holding"(bag of holding that could initially only hold) even at first level that suddenly made more sense when that aspect of her was revealed. </p><p></p><p>I actually never created the character as a Courtesan outright, just with some influence from the sort of imagery associated, but there was a point where the GM mentioned gifts she was receiving from "patrons" and it sort of clicked, lol. You kind of have to be careful with me I guess because I'll take things and make something out of the possibly unintended implications. A lot of stuff about the character made suddenly sense to me though so I'm glad the GM let me went down that route even if he wasn't necessarily 100% comfortable with it at the time. It filled some holes(pardon the pun) in her somewhat convoluted backstory and made her an interesting mirror for her philandering father(who's nature we discovered soon after).</p><p></p><p>There's a recurring NPC in the game who's more of a stereotypically "slutty" sort, and having my character in the game sort of helps balance out any negative implications of that character(and yeah, they did end up doing stuff), not that she's the best role model either necessarily but still.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We have a guy in our group who habitually plays female characters and though a lot of his influence coming from anime & manga which can veer into dodgy territory we generally trust him to do it well and he does. He plays the more gruffer strong female character as opposed to my archetypically feminine one. He wanted to play a bi/lesbian character in the next game(I think he was actually initially influenced by Asami from the Legend of Korra) and honestly I'm pretty cool with it. He's not the biggest social justice head or anything but he's pretty un-edgy and avoids crap stereotypes.</p><p></p><p>Last leader character in the last campaign(where i played a male Tiefling Paladin) was also played a guy who often plays female characters, and did it well. Though again erred a little bit on the side of doing a more archetypically "masculine" female character for want of a much better word. Which I don't really have a problem with so much, unlike those GMs. I'm not the goddamn gender police, lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roseweave, post: 6937296, member: 6806914"] With my character I used her Courtesan-ing(and general Bard-ing I guess) as an explanation for where random items came from, which sometimes just so happened to be plot relevant. She had a "Warddrobe of Holding"(bag of holding that could initially only hold) even at first level that suddenly made more sense when that aspect of her was revealed. I actually never created the character as a Courtesan outright, just with some influence from the sort of imagery associated, but there was a point where the GM mentioned gifts she was receiving from "patrons" and it sort of clicked, lol. You kind of have to be careful with me I guess because I'll take things and make something out of the possibly unintended implications. A lot of stuff about the character made suddenly sense to me though so I'm glad the GM let me went down that route even if he wasn't necessarily 100% comfortable with it at the time. It filled some holes(pardon the pun) in her somewhat convoluted backstory and made her an interesting mirror for her philandering father(who's nature we discovered soon after). There's a recurring NPC in the game who's more of a stereotypically "slutty" sort, and having my character in the game sort of helps balance out any negative implications of that character(and yeah, they did end up doing stuff), not that she's the best role model either necessarily but still. We have a guy in our group who habitually plays female characters and though a lot of his influence coming from anime & manga which can veer into dodgy territory we generally trust him to do it well and he does. He plays the more gruffer strong female character as opposed to my archetypically feminine one. He wanted to play a bi/lesbian character in the next game(I think he was actually initially influenced by Asami from the Legend of Korra) and honestly I'm pretty cool with it. He's not the biggest social justice head or anything but he's pretty un-edgy and avoids crap stereotypes. Last leader character in the last campaign(where i played a male Tiefling Paladin) was also played a guy who often plays female characters, and did it well. Though again erred a little bit on the side of doing a more archetypically "masculine" female character for want of a much better word. Which I don't really have a problem with so much, unlike those GMs. I'm not the goddamn gender police, lol. [/QUOTE]
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