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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gort" data-source="post: 4523957" data-attributes="member: 11239">I can't be the only one who read the title as meaning "transsexual fantasy characters". <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/cry.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":.-(" title="Cry    :.-(" data-shortname=":.-(" />Anyway, to contribute, I've seen lots of cross-gender PCs played, and none were offensive to anyone. The term I would probably use for them would be "lacklustre", for males playing female characters, and "girly men" for females playing male characters.Male players aren't really interested (in my experience anyway) in playing a female character as feminine, particularly. They're more after a sort of femme-fatale character - often sexy but never actually doing anything sexual, and they rarely speak "in character", since guys just can't really do girl voices. I noticed a common theme for downtime for male-female PCs was "my character goes off, gets married to some dude and has a kid, then returns to the party". I found that totally bizarre.Female players are similar in a lot of ways. They usually play characters with next to no machismo, who don't get stuck into the fight hand-to-hand - I see a lot of timid rogues and rangers, or spellcasters of one stripe or another who stay at range. Again, no male sexuality expressed, little talking "in character" because it's hard to do a male voice as a girl.I don't discourage the cross-gender PC thing in my games, I've just yet to really be impressed by it. When I'm playing, I usually stick to my own race and gender since I think it a lot easier to stay true to the source material - though recently I had a lot of fun roleplaying a dragonborn inspiring warlord.</blockquote>

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