Ever play a PC of the opposite gender?

[ArielManx]

In our main campaign I currently run two characters, one female, one male. The female has been my character since day one, the male was a NPC that I took over.

Playing the male hasn't been difficult at all. I just get myself into a different mindset when I'm being Devin as opposed to Zorra. The characters have very different personalities and I think that makes a bigger distinction than gender. I hate to admit it, but I do lower my voice a bit as Devin...but not just because he's a man, but also because he tends to be in the lead and has to handle introductions, planning discussions, etc. Zorra is more meek and shy and rarely says much at all. Devin has a stronger voice to reflect his role in the party.

A male player in our campaign has a female character and does a fine job with her, and the male DM's female NPCs are very well played. There's never been any problems of anyone being uncomfortable playing the opposite gender. I think it depends a lot on the maturity of your players.

Ariel

 

[Darth Shoju]

opposite-gender PCs

Several of our players (including myself) have played female characters (all the players are male). Over all I'd say it is handled very maturely. We've had seductresses, tom-boys, and everything inbetween. I'd say the only hang up is that the female characters do tend to get played more as men than women. I know when I played a female I had a bit of hard time getting into her character, because I just kept wondering if I was doing it right, if her decision making process would be similar to a male's. I ultimately resolved to stick to playing male characters as I just don't think I have enough of an understanding how women think (and my girlfriend would probably agree with me there ). Really, this decision is due more to my shortcomings as a roleplayer than anything else. I'm quite glad that some of the other guys play female characters. They may not be the most feminine of characters (just IMO of course), but I do appreciate the diversity in the party.

Our DM is pretty good at roleplaying his female NPCs though.

 

[der_kluge]

I'm currently playing a female character. A human female rog1/sor6/mindbender2. She's got a 23 charisma, and can charm/suggestion the pants off anyone. She's starting to get quite powerful, but early on she was a naive girl who relied on her looks to get what she wanted. And no, she's not a slut. She's actually dating a guy much older than her, who is affectively the chief of state in the city.

Once I took an inventory of all my PCs, including some from Shadowrun. Fully 50% were female.

I did have the obligatory female priestess of Sune once as well. Yes, she was quite slutty (but hey, it was her religion!). One of my favorites was a drunken sensate priest/mage for a Planescape game.

I also had one that I only played once that was a female Paladin with a 7 int. She was a hoot.

I've mostly played human females. Never tried a halfling female, or a dwarven female. Maybe someday I will. I really want to play a female pixie wizard, but haven't found a DM that will let me yet.


And to answer your question, no, I'm not gay.

But I don't go the opposite extreme, either. I just can't play hulking brutish half-orc barbarians, or anything like that. I see women as being more civilized, so all my characters tend to be civilized, either dashing rogues, or mostly cleric/wizard types.

 

[roytheodd]

Over the past couple of years I've been bringing in a lot of new roleplayers. The one thing that I've noticed is that during character creation when I ask them which gender they want to play a little look of "Oh?" comes over them and they then choose to play opposite gender. I've had three new roleplayers in the past four or five months cross the gender line for their very first character. As these characters yet live, they haven't had the option to make another character yet.

 

[Zogg]

I did have the obligatory female priestess of Sune once as well. Yes, she was quite slutty (but hey, it was her religion!). One of my favorites was a drunken sensate priest/mage for a Planescape game.

Hey now...nowhere does it state that priestesses of Sune are slutty...many of them are quite classy and only use their charms for good. Priestesses of Sharess, on the other hand,....I mean, their holy simple is a set of female lips!

 

[Argent Silvermage]

I have played Females many times. I prefer male characters most of the time but if the character concept calls for a female touch than so be it. Most of the women I play tend to be a bit exagerated but if I wanted to play a "normal" person I would play a man.
examples.

Lilly White: 1/2 elf druid/sorceress. sort of a snow white ripoff but dshe's looking for her soul mate. Not to girly but has her moments.

Autumn: Tiefling Druid. Autumn is an urban druid and a total whore. There is so little life in the city and so much death that she is trying to compensate in her own way.

Now I have a question....Would you play a Gay or Lesbian character?

 

[Taloras]

I havent, but one of my friends does it quite often. Of course....in EverQuest, he ONLY plays female characters. His reasoning? "If im gonna sit there and stare at my characters butt for hours on end, i want it to be a NICE butt."

 

[med stud]

I have to admit I have only played a female character once, and it was a character that was your typical cutthroat with no moral and living of scams, burglary and assassinations. This was before the campaign started. Just before the campaign started, he donned a girdle of masculinity/femininity and got the looks of a frail, princess-like girl. This was why he/she joined up with the good guys, because she wanted a solution to her problem. It was a blast role playing her, as she was constantly pissed off about patronizing males and guys that hit on her (she had Cha 17). One of the best campaigns I have played in

 

[Draugin]

I've never played a female character, but I think that the gaming group has to be mature and serious.
I saw one of my friends playing a female lesbian amazon - you've got the picture - and it was terrible (well it was five years ago and we were young, but there are some things that you cannot forget). Maybe he didn't start in such a terrible way, but soon the jokes of the party made his character (poor Athana) a caricature of a woman, even for a female-lesbian-amazon-in-bikini.

Well, I'm going to begin a new campaign and I've to create a new PC, what about making her a girl? Mmmh, that's a possibility.
But I think I should read some Arcane Tome of Female Thought. Has anyone got a copy?

 

[WayneLigon]

Lessee..to cover all the bases in the thread and go past that... I've played a hetero female character three or four times, a gay female once, a bi female once (she was a half-dryad; pretty much anything pretty on two legs attracted her), a het male.. hundreds of times, a gay male four times, a bi male.. um, twice, I think. At least one character that changed sexes regularly thanks to a family 'curse'. At least once character that was technically non-sexed (equipments there, but somewhere along the way the instruction manual was lost...). So.. I think that covers all the bases and then some