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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 8021412" data-attributes="member: 6775477">As a player, the only aspect that is overwhelmingly in one direction is being male. I did a lot of &quot;genderbending&quot; when I was younger, but since I also DM, I found it unnecessary and distracting (watch the Gamers 2 for an example of this). As a DM I have to be whatever the NPC is, so I get plenty of time RPing females. The sexuality of my PCs is normally irrelevant, since it seldom comes up, but I've played several homosexual characters. The most interesting one I had was in love with another male PC who was a notorious womanizer, making for some hilarious and memorable interactions. The other player was pretty good with it... until the DM gave me an item that gave a bonus specifically for seduction that had double the bonus against said PC (important to note: I never once attempted to seduce him, but we had a check for it because he used it against NPC women all the time).As for ethnicity... pretty much never. For one I seldom play humans, usually playing an elf or other demi-human (or alien race for sci-fi). For another, since I almost always play in a published setting, I use one of the setting's fantasy ethnicity appropriate for the region we're in. Since I try very hard to play the mindset of the race I play (including the specific human ethnicity), it seldom makes a difference if the ethnicity is similar to my own or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 8021412, member: 6775477"] As a player, the only aspect that is overwhelmingly in one direction is being male. I did a lot of "genderbending" when I was younger, but since I also DM, I found it unnecessary and distracting (watch the Gamers 2 for an example of this). As a DM I have to be whatever the NPC is, so I get plenty of time RPing females. The sexuality of my PCs is normally irrelevant, since it seldom comes up, but I've played several homosexual characters. The most interesting one I had was in love with another male PC who was a notorious womanizer, making for some hilarious and memorable interactions. The other player was pretty good with it... until the DM gave me an item that gave a bonus specifically for seduction that had double the bonus against said PC (important to note: I never once attempted to seduce him, but we had a check for it because he used it against NPC women all the time). As for ethnicity... pretty much never. For one I seldom play humans, usually playing an elf or other demi-human (or alien race for sci-fi). For another, since I almost always play in a published setting, I use one of the setting's fantasy ethnicity appropriate for the region we're in. Since I try very hard to play the mindset of the race I play (including the specific human ethnicity), it seldom makes a difference if the ethnicity is similar to my own or not. [/QUOTE]

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