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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ladyofdragons" data-source="post: 300583" data-attributes="member: 5718">I am in no way against cross-gender gaming, though I rarely do it myself.  As a woman, I've never had the problem of playing in a single-gender gaming group, and since the men in our group always play male characters, I play the female to round out the party.  I think in 15+ years of D&D I have played exactly 2 male characters.  One was really rather asexual, the other was a really stupid half ork named Krunk, who liked to pick flowers and make daisy chains and crush bad people.  So really, I don't think I'm very good at gender-bending while roleplaying and I avoid it.  As a DM, however, I play male NPCs all the time, but since I really don't need to get very deep into their motivations it's not an issue.As for playing Women of Loose Morals, I've done that before, and it was a lot of fun.  But nobody in our party would ever have thought of calling her a slut, she was simply a free spirit following the tenets of her god.  Sluttyness requires the character to realize what she's doing is 'sinful' and go on doing it in spite of (or because of) that.   Really, I've only ever met one man who could play a female character and do it justice.  He did a wonderful job playing a sex mage (I forget what the actual title is) from the netbook of carnal knowledge, and managed to do it lightly, humorously, and without making the women in the room cringe thinking "a woman would NEVER have done that".One great twist on this is a campaign I played in where one of the characters had a curse placed on him, where every night he had a 1 in 6 chance of switching genders.  Since this was new for him, being a woman, it required some tutelage and he wasn't expected to really be a believable woman, just to make a good hack at it.  Was some good fun, since the person he had to ask for advice on how to be a good woman was the aforementioned free-spirited cleric.In summation, I guess I'm trying to say that playing someone of the opposite gender (or perhaps the opposite sexual preference) well is a very difficult task, something I generally avoid, but it can be done and can add to a game, if all the players are mature enough to handle the subject.</blockquote>

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