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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lutecius" data-source="post: 4527521" data-attributes="member: 60332">Same here. I guess I fall in the "mostly plays idealized versions of himself" category but i've played and seen a few "cross-gender pcs", especially when I started playing, back in middle school. They were generally fun and none of the girls in our group were offended by males playing stereotypical fantasy babes. I can't see how a female character played by a male, no matter how stereotypical or "unrealistic", is in itself more disruptive than drunken antisocial dwarves or snotty elves. A disruptive player is going to be disruptive no matter what character he plays.As for believability... What???Compared to common portrayals of dungeon crawling sociopaths and improbable fantasy races, I find slutty or bitchy women quite believable.Likewise, the player/character gender discrepancy doesn’t break my suspension of disbelief any more than stereotypical gamers portraying attractive/charismatic heroes or muscular barbarians <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Romantic interactions involving PCs are going to be awkward, regardless of the player’s or dm’s gender. In this case, not using 1st person helps a lot, though occasional cheesy falsettos can be fun, depending on the tone of the game.</blockquote>

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