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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balsamic Dragon" data-source="post: 280635" data-attributes="member: 2433">In my games and in most of the games that I play in, we usually (but not always) have one or two characters who are cross-gendered.  Personally, I think it is an interesting part of role-playing.  Perhaps not as analogous to playing a dwarf or an elf, but more analogous to playing a real world racial minority or someone of a different real world religion.  It's an opportunity for roleplaying and it is fun.  To Teflon Billy:I've seen players of the type that you have had to deal with.  I've gamed with them and for them.  I tend to be a fairly harsh GM when it comes to players being disgusting and rude for no other reason than to diminish the enjoyment of the game for everyone else.  I kick them out and they don't get invited back.  If I'm the player, I inform the GM that if they don't shape up, then I will no longer play.  Despite this, I find that I am rarely short of players or GMs to game with.  I disagree with your policy, because it punishes everyone because of the bad behavior of a few.  It means that other people don't get to roleplay because a few people are incapable of doing so.  To me, that diminishs the whole game.  However, if you yourself are uncomfortable with other players cross-gendering, then just say so!  The GM has as much right to enjoy the game as the players, and everyone has issues that they would prefer not to see in a roleplaying game.  I do as well.  You can play transvestites, lesbians and strange alien hive minds in my game and I won't mind, but I will not allow a character whose central theme/motive is rape.  It isn't something I like, and therefor it doesn't get in.  So if your policy is a result of having survived and being sick of a number of bad experiences and, as a result, simply not enjoying cross-gender playing no matter how skilled the RP is, that's fine.  But if you refuse to give new players the benefit of the doubt and assume that old players will never mature past the mental age of 14, then you may be doing some of your players a disservice.  And if you allow those players who refuse to mature to control the way your game is run, I'd say you'd be better off finding new players.Balsamic Dragon</blockquote>

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