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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaos_Kitten" data-source="post: 1615246" data-attributes="member: 13257">Hello all.  Long time lurker, first time poster.Forgive me for the fairly silly title.  It just felt appropriate at the time.This question/rant is directed mostly to the female gamers in the forum, but anyone is welcome to add their input.I find when I play D&D and other d20 roleplaying games I tend to have difficulty with some of the male gamers.  They expect me to play some sexed sorceress in barely there clothes or a fighter chick in a chainmail bikini.What is even more frustrating is how it comes as some huge surprise that I can play my character effectively.  If I do have a character that shows some prowess then I've had many assume my significant other must have built and written it up for me.  I got the half minotaur template banned from the local PvP on my own merit.  (A naturally large Hextor worshipping, flail wielding, monkey gripping cleric can be especially dangerous when you put divine favor and righteous might into the mix.)Don't get me wrong.  I'm not up on my soapbox glaring at the male population as a whole.  I've just had some very frustrating experiences of this nature.  I just wonder if anyone else has and just how they dealt with it.Thanks for seeing this through and not getting horribly bored with my rambling. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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