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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1341119" data-attributes="member: 158">Never used to allow it in high school and middle school (we were a bunch of... well, teenagers back then <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) but nowadays, dealing with more mature gamers, I allow it, as does the other DM. One player actually prefers playing female PC's because he likes the concept of strong female role models.I'll do it every now and again as a change of pace. When I want to emulate a more feminine (not necessarily female) character, I emphasize the character's compassionate side more, and am more heartfelt about causes taken up. Then again, since women run the gamut from compassionate to bloodthirsty (perhaps in slightly different percentage distributions, but that's not for here), there's really little difference in personality when a person plays a man versus a woman.The same argument could be made about coarse and direct personalities playing softer and more feminine personalities, and vice versa - but as long as the focus is not on the gender or gender perception itself, but rather the beliefs and actions of the character, it tends to play MUCH more smoothly.</blockquote>