D&D General A friend of mine has joined A 5E Dnd Group, has decided to play A Robin Hood Style character and wants to know what people think of his character

[Charlaquin]

Wait, what? What exactly do you mean ",male naturally,"?

I suspect they mean it is natural to assume a character based on Robin Hood would be male. One certainly could create a female character based on Robin Hood (in fact, I have done so), but that would be an exception to the typical expectation.

 

[JMISBEST]

I suspect they mean it is natural to assume a character based on Robin Hood would be male. One certainly could create a female character based on Robin Hood (in fact, I have done so), but that would be an exception to the typical expectation.

They could even play a female with the name Robin Hood, after all Robin is a name that can be given to both boys and girls

 

[thirdkingdom]

I suspect they mean it is natural to assume a character based on Robin Hood would be male. One certainly could create a female character based on Robin Hood (in fact, I have done so), but that would be an exception to the typical expectation.

I think that is a very generous interpretation on your part.

 

[Charlaquin]

They could even play a female with the name Robin Hood, after all Robin is a name that can be given to both boys and girls

Which is exactly what I did!

 

[Charlaquin]

I think that is a very generous interpretation on your part.

I find that interpreting people’s words generously unless given reason not to makes for more productive conversations.

Also, @JMISBEST just posted the same reasoning, so it seems I was right to interpret generously. As I find to be the case more often than not.

 

[Charlaquin]

People need to drop this pointless thread as begun by a clickbaiter.

This is a pretty typical @JMISBEST thread, and I’m pretty sure they’re entirely genuine. They just clearly have a lot of story and character ideas and nobody to talk to them about outside of ENWorld. And for some reason feel more secure in framing them as their friends’ ideas instead of their own.

 

[Clint_L]

Agreed - I think it's awesome that they come here to bounce ideas around and get feedback.

 

[abirdcall]

My mate thinks it resembles Lawful Evil enough to justify his character being of Lawful Evil alignment and its his character

Your mate is free to do that. It is just that it is going to be confusing to most people who read it because they have different definitions for those words.

 

[MichaelSomething]

You're not truly Lawful Evil until you had to put a cover sheet on a TPS report imo.

 

[Tonguez]

They could even play a female with the name Robin Hood, after all Robin is a name that can be given to both boys and girls

Most every name can be given to both boys and girls, especially if youre happy to accept alternate spellings. Afterall Marion can be a boys name and Little Joni and Allana Dale could be girls.