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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheYeti1775" data-source="post: 5637182" data-attributes="member: 20914">Simple answer: If it works for your game and group, do it.  Else don't.The rest is all opinions.Having said that here is my opinion.If the setting doesn't already have it (i.e. 3E D&D), don't add it.If the setting has it (i.e. 1E AD&D), and you like it than keep it, else discard it.Someone mentioned Game of Thrones.  That is a very heavily sexist based in a social sense.  But as mentioned you can build a 'Strong Woman' such as Brienne.Social stigma I will play with depending on the world and the situation.In FR, if your in Waterdeep and a woman, sure your pretty equal.  But you go up to Ten Towns, you run into the regular male and they treat you like 'just a woman'.Now as far as Cross-Gender rp-ing.  I don't have a personal affront against it.  Though I have stopped it at a table I ran before.  But that was because of one player's constant potrayal of constant slut on a different character.Typically though I personally normally only play males, though I have from time to time played a female.  Those are rare occassions though.I can understand the voice immerssion as well to an extent.I had posted once before about a guy bigger than me playing a Female Elf Barbarian and it honestly seemed wierd.  He didn't play it wrong or anything, just struck me wierd.  The guy read the post and asked why I said that and and I told him it was just a bit 'off' in my eyes.  This was also when 3E was still fairly new to me, so the I still had a standard roles in classes & race in mind.Nowadays it isn't gender differences that bother me at the table as much as age disparities in players (mental & physical).</blockquote>

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