Ever play a PC of the opposite gender?

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

In the game I'm currently playing in, we've got a couple gender switches currnetly. There are 4 male and 2 female players, and 2 of the males are playing female characters and 1 female is playing a male character, so we are 3 out of 6 for playing different genders. In previous games with the same group, we have had several other instances with characters of different gender than the player, including one of the females playing a gay male.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

However, the breastless thingie has no basis -- it comes from an poor attempt at etymology. Some people though the A was a privative A (like in asexual, anaerobie, amoral, etc.); but that wasn't the case. It's comparable to these PC persons thinking that history come from "his tory" and thus means "the tory of a male".

not that anyone actualy believes the second, they use the coincidence to make a point.

And just so you know, the idea of dragons has no basis in fact either... dinosaur bones, ya know... twice.

Kahuna burger

 

[Kahuna Burger]

-Have played a lesbian amazon, nearly identical to the type Kahuna Burger mentioned, except that mine had the left breast bound down flat to the chest all the time rather than burnt off. Her outlook was basically that men are all well and good, but you didn't couple with one out of love - you did so to have children, which after they were born were his responsability. Other women were your comrades-in-arms, and occasionally your lover. Seemed only natural, you fight alongside this person day in day out, that you two may develop an attraction to one another. Besides, with same-sex relations amongst your warriors you don't run the risk of an accidental pregnancy taking one of the soldiers out of commission for months and months.

heh heh. My amazon actually "seduced" a male party member once because she had been told to "spawn" by the tribal council... made for a funny story. Mostly, though they had a symbiotic relationship with a nearby village that the firstborn daughter of every family was given to the amazons.

Of course now that we've had that thread on pregnacy inducing polymorph, there's a whole other idea to make the tribe sustainable...

Kahuna burger

 

[Kesh]

Haven't yet, but plan to eventually.

 

[Psion]

I played female PCs all the time.

And I hear the usual complaints about how men don't play realistic females. But after meeting (and dating for a bit) a woman who was the spitting image of a female personality I made in a game, I find the notion that men can't make beleivable female characters absurd.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I have a backup character that transcends gender completely. As a native shapeshifter, with no true form of its own, the character is as androgynous as they come. However, ‘she’ spends most of 'her' time in a feminine form, because most people seem to react more favorably towards a woman than a man, finding them less threatening and such. It is interesting to play such an alien mindset, and it helps to better understand human behavior, being able to so easily step back and observe it with the objectivity of a third party.

I'd like to play an uncontrolable shape shifter sometime, ala the cursed wizard in Thieves World or Excalibur's Megan on a bad day. having no true form and little control over what you looked like from moment to moment. Would also make for a good reason to go adventuring - hard to hold a job or have a normal life when no one recognizes you from one hour to the next...

Kahuna Burger

 

[Gez]

And just so you know, the idea of dragons has no basis in fact either... dinosaur bones, ya know... twice.

Kahuna burger

Yes, but a woman that has to cut one breast because it would hamper her in using a bow otherwise would need to have boobs whose dimensions are as fantastic as dragons.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Yes, but a woman that has to cut one breast because it would hamper her in using a bow otherwise would need to have boobs whose dimensions are as fantastic as dragons.

BZZZTT! Sorry, you clearly didn't read you side's talking points for this go round. The propper comment is "they would just bind one or both breasts, not hack them off". Sadly, you've choosen to put your assertions up against the actual expereince of larger chested women who practice archery (and know what their body is like without a bra) and will not be moving on... but we have some LOVELY PARTING GIFTS! Angcuru, tell him what he's won!

Kahuna burger

 

[Olive]

My longest running character is a female half elf Transmuter, called Olive. I never found the whole 'playing a woman' thing particulalrly challenging or difficult or wierd. She was into power, and interested in gender only in so far as her gender affected how others thought of her. It was a problem when people didn't take her seriously because she was a woman, and otherwise, she got on with trying to be a powerful wizard.

I have no problem with people playing accross gender bourndries, as long as they don't engage in stereotyping, and unfortunately a lot of people do...

 

[Sixchan]

I play Females quite often, but I try hard not to turn them into Nymphomaniacs-in-chainmail, since I generally don't enjoy playing that way (the exception to this rule being the beer & pretzels PbP game where I am Outer Planar High's Succubus School Bike). I try to vary the way I play women, just as I do with men (though I dislike playing low intelligence characters in general), playing everything from overconfident teenagers through insane clerics to wise old witches.
So at least I'm not a one trick pony.