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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 5288036" data-attributes="member: 41485">I play about 50/50 (with the occasional "other" thrown in, like a Drazi or a robot).  Most of the time, it makes no difference whatsoever. It's just a character concept, and it's really just flavor. However, once it was really interesting. I played a female character in Exalted. I designed this happy-go-lucky gadabout leech who was a genius in getting out of situations scot-free. At the last minute, I thought the character should be female (the cute redhead named Wee Jas I mentioned elsewhere).  Well, the first thing that happened is that Jas met another PC, a faerie who manifested as male and dazzlingly beautiful. A couple die rolls later, and blam, Jas was smitten.  Boy, did the faerie regret it. I played it more as an innocent crush than anything, where she always made sure he was comfortable, confided all sorts of inane things to him, and always ended up on his team when the party split.  Then, she ended up getting separated from the party, cornered by a bunch of other faeries who wanted to do him harm. They bullied her, promising her anything if she would just betray him. What they didn't realize was that although she couldn't fight back, she was still a master of escape. She negotiated a charm so that she could always see through her paramour's glamour. Then, she betrayed him... into the hands of some death lords who owed her a favor. They simply returned him to her.  Jas ran up to him, threw her arms around him, and gave him a big kiss. "Miss me?" she asked. He shuddered, "...I promise I'll hit next time." His faerie foes were livid. They promised to destroy her life forever. She simply looked through their glamour and waited for them to do anything real. They never could conceive of doing so. It didn't end there. He tried to impress upon Jas about the horror of the faeries, and drew a picture showing her as completely and utterly mangled in a hundred different ways. She looked at the picture, smirked, and drew him a picture of a snowflake. He got the picture. Jas and her paramour separated for a while. Faeries became a regular part of her life. She became a complete scourge to faeries. She learned how to disintegrate them with cold iron, and developed a liking to "faerie dust." She became known as the mysterious Iron Maiden, one of the greatest enemies to all faeries.  When she met up with him again, he looked at her, horrified at what she had become. She just batted her eyelashes and said, "Don't worry, you're safe. I like you." "You know, I also have allies that are faeries. You haven't been killing them, too, have you?""Mmmhmm..." she replied, noncommitally.  The romance went from him being in control to him not daring to cross her. This would have NEVER played out this way, if Jas had been male. Sometimes, gender does matter, and creates for more interesting stories.</blockquote>

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