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<blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 1624753" data-attributes="member: 1049">When I run games, cross-gender gaming is banned.&nbsp; I've seen it done badly too often, and little is creepier than a bad XGRP character.&nbsp; In closed games where I trust everyone, that limit is off, though.(I think this is probably the base of the XGRP debate.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; The more you know and trust the other players, the more comfortable you are letting players make choices that might risk &quot;stepping on someone's toes&quot;.)If the name doesn't give it away, I tend to play predominantly human characters.&nbsp; It actually bothers me slightly how many people play demihumans.&nbsp; (Shades of 2e, all elf parties that acted like PC's.&nbsp; You don't live 100+ years by being suicidally foolish.)&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Humanophile, post: 1624753, member: 1049"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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