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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5288623" data-attributes="member: 22779">Hang on a tick here.People are dogpiling in here saying that if anyone has even the slightest problem with someone playing across gender, they must have huge problems with players playing anything that they aren't.  This completely ignores anyones possible experiences.  Several posters have chimed in to say that they don't like gender bending characters simply because every time they've seen it done, it's been done very, very poorly - either creepy or incredibly immaturely.Is this really hard to believe?I mean, I loathe elves in D&D for EXACTLY the same reason.  I'm so sick of players playing humans that see in the dark.  Nothing about the character actually denotes the fact that he isn't human, lives for centuries, comes from a culture that predates human cultures by millenia (true in most D&D settings) or in the slightest way draws any attention to the fact that this character isn't human.In the same way, I've seen more than my share of female characters that in no way actually played up the fact that they were female.  To the point of other players being surprised on the rare occassion when it came up in play.It's not that gender-bending character's are a bad thing.  They're not.  It's an interesting challenge.  But, that's the point right there.  It's a challenge.  If the player can't be bothered bringing  a major element of the character to the table, why bother in the first place?Either do it right, put in a bit of effort, or forget about it.  Doing a half-assed at best job just annoys the crap out of me as a DM.  So, snide shots about being uncomfortable with my own sexuality aside, it's got nothing to do with the player playing something different, and everything to do with the player putting something on a character sheet and then never, ever referencing it again.</blockquote>

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