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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haradim" data-source="post: 1549672" data-attributes="member: 8468">I'm male, and probably half my characters are now female.Typically, this is simply because the character was female when it popped into my head. I sometimes find I have trouble just making a character; I tend to prefer going wherever inspiration takes me, and that has led to a number of female characters. Sadly, I've never really had a chance to really explore these characters; we are notoriously bad for never playing anything long enough to actually get into character. We usually only get 1 session out of a given group of characters (unless they are taken along into whatever happens to be run...a practice I tend to dislike).My other method of gender determination is a simple roll of the dice, when I don't have a clear idea on gender, or if I don't really care one way or the other. This was how I generated my Mage character last night.When it comes to actually playing these characters, I usually just play them as per whatever personality I have in mind. I don't concern myself with being 'correct' in how I play a character (given how subjective that is), especially since I would probably fail if I tried that even with a male PC. I don't doubt there are various nuances I'm missing, but they are unlikely to matter a great deal anyway unless someone makes a point of making them matter...which can just as easily become a problem for a male or elf character.That said, the more convincing a masquerade I can pull off, the better. A good performance means that I've begun to understand what it is I'm playing. Or maybe we are all just stereotypically clueless when it comes to the opposite sex, and nobody noticed  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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