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<blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 4341470" data-attributes="member: 54364">Hey Mr. Apothecary.&nbsp;I'm not sure I'm any good at role playing women as distinct from men. I guess I don't see men and women as being that different. I don't hold with that Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus crap. Oh certainly in the real world men and women are indoctrinated with different gender roles from birth. But in a fantasy world I can say what gender roles people inherit. Generally this means males and females can adopt any gender role in my games. Exceptions are made when I want to have a culture where that isn't an option. As I said: I use these as exceptions and always because I'm wanting to create a particular style, mood or plot point. Generally speaking I let my modern, lefty, liberal sentiments colour my fantasy worlds.&nbsp;All of which doesn't really answer your question. Are my female NPCs very feminine? No, not really. I'm not that good an actor. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> But they're as well rounded as my male ones. &nbsp;Now you've got me worrying. Ya see, at some point my players are going to be meeting a rather large, rather unlikeable dragon. She just happens to be a she. Now I'm wondering if the players will realise she's female. I'm also wondering should it matter? Shouldn't her dragoness be a more important trait than her gender? Or should it? I don't know. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />&nbsp;A very thought provoking question. Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DrunkonDuty, post: 4341470, member: 54364"] Hey Mr. Apothecary. I'm not sure I'm any good at role playing women as distinct from men. I guess I don't see men and women as being that different. I don't hold with that Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus crap. Oh certainly in the real world men and women are indoctrinated with different gender roles from birth. But in a fantasy world I can say what gender roles people inherit. Generally this means males and females can adopt any gender role in my games. Exceptions are made when I want to have a culture where that isn't an option. As I said: I use these as exceptions and always because I'm wanting to create a particular style, mood or plot point. Generally speaking I let my modern, lefty, liberal sentiments colour my fantasy worlds. All of which doesn't really answer your question. Are my female NPCs very feminine? No, not really. I'm not that good an actor. :o But they're as well rounded as my male ones. Now you've got me worrying. Ya see, at some point my players are going to be meeting a rather large, rather unlikeable dragon. She just happens to be a she. Now I'm wondering if the players will realise she's female. I'm also wondering should it matter? Shouldn't her dragoness be a more important trait than her gender? Or should it? I don't know. :confused: A very thought provoking question. Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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