guys and girls

[Humanophile]

When I run games, cross-gender gaming is banned. I've seen it done badly too often, and little is creepier than a bad XGRP character. In closed games where I trust everyone, that limit is off, though.

(I think this is probably the base of the XGRP debate. I'd bet that most people who are for it play in closed, tight-knit groups of friends, while those who are against tend to be in more open games. The more you know and trust the other players, the more comfortable you are letting players make choices that might risk "stepping on someone's toes".)

If the name doesn't give it away, I tend to play predominantly human characters. It actually bothers me slightly how many people play demihumans. (Shades of 2e, all elf parties that acted like PC's. You don't live 100+ years by being suicidally foolish.) I have a few female characters in random folders - my equivalent to sketching out or writing a character into a story - but greater numbers of males from when a concept in my head wanted expression. I tend to fall back into a small number of roles in real play, though, and as my stable of characters would require just the right group, I tend to play generic male support-types to get a feel for any setting I play in.

 

[Buttercup]

As a player, I've played male characters twice, and in both cases, I did not create them. I just don't tend to have character concepts that start with "male" for some reason.

Of course as a DM, I play everything.

 

[megamania]

I roleplay about 60% male and 40% female Dnd characters while being 100% male in real life.

Some classes/personality types I just associate with a gender.

Nearly all of my females were mages or psions with a few rogues. Go figure.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Right now I only play one male character: a half-elf ranger. IMO, I see rangers as being male characters. The rest of my characters, a cleric (retired), another cleric (deceased but now stuck to live out the rest of her days residing in either her god's realm or any of the other planes but can't return to the Prime), a half silver dragon paladin and a dwarven fighter are all females.

It totally confuses everyone who refers to my male character as "she" alot.

 

[Taneel BrightBlade]

I'll probobly play a female after playing Asil, never have before.
PS: I think that playing a race other than human is easier than another gender 'cauze they aren't there to skuff at bad role playing.

 

[PA]

My DM won't let us play characters that are not our gender. He says it makes things weird because it's hard to role play from a perspective that you, by nature, cannot understand...

So he doesn't let you play elves or dwarves either? And he never, as a GM, plays a female character himself?

 

[PA]

As a player, I've played male characters twice, and in both cases, I did not create them. I just don't tend to have character concepts that start with "male" for some reason.

Of course as a DM, I play everything.

Replace "male" by "female" and "twice" by "once" and we're the same person.