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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 4523923" data-attributes="member: 9327">I remember a story on EnWorld several years back, where someone recounted an RPGA event where the male (and very.. uh... unhygienic, shall we say) DM was roleplaying a female NPC trying to seduce a male player, with icky DM-on-player pantomiming. Why'd I mention it?Well, in this case, the player absolutley, 100% broke immersion. If the DM had maybe described the action instead of pantomiming it, the player might have rolled with it, but no guarantees. NOW, consider a female DM doing the same as above. Would this feel odd, or break immersion? I think a majority of EnWorlder's would say yes. I would like to pretend to be that egalitarian, but I'm not, and I suspect a good many of my fellow gamers are the same. This would not affect me as much, and I would not feel as wierd.My point is this: gender is only one axis of characterization, but it's a heavy one. The more of these axes that are diametrically opposite from you, the harder it is (1) for you to roleplay and (2) for your fellow roleplayers to accept. If you are a capable roleplayer, gaming with other capable roleplayers, then you shouldn't have a problem. If you're like me, then you only play male, lawful-good-but-slightly-lawful-stupid paladins. It's the character concept that most closely aligns itself to my real personality. Immersion is easy, and the group readily accepts my character.However, if you're like me, you gotta avoid playing character exactly like you every single time. The only way to grow as a roleplayer is to play characters that aren't already you. By the same token, I think you must be careful to know your limitations. I am now capable (through three character's worth of practice) of playing Chaotic Good characters, but I would simply fail to properly roleplay any sort of evil character. To date, I have never played a female character, and I do not see myself doing so in the future.EDIT: To date, the single hardest roleplaying I have ever done was playing a sexually-ambiguous CN half-elf bard. I drew Scales on a DoMT and rolled LG. I took levels of paladin and ended up back with my old mainstay. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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