PC sex relative to player sex

[Xaov]

Heh yep all mine are. I dunno I never really saw a reason to do otherwise. and plus I've had the misfortune of playing with someone who did that but was creepy about it, so yeah.

 

[Henry]

About 90/10 Same Sex / Opposite sex, myself. Maybe 85/15 - I run a character so rarely it might well be 75/25!

 

[Desdichado]

This again . . . have I missed an earlier thread/poll on the same topic?

Are you kidding? Any such general relevency RPG topic has probably been done at least half a dozen times here, if not considerably more than that.

Still, no reason not to bring something up again. There's always a lot of turnover in the members who are active at any given time.

 

[Fieari]

I have the "audio/visual" object to cross gendered PCs, and as such ban it from my in person games and never try it in person. However, online, I have no objections whatsoever and have frequently cross gendered, to about a rate of 50/50 ish, sometimes bucking on one side or the other.

 

[barsoomcore]

My PCs over the years have probably been about 80-90% male, like myself. The campaigns in which I played female PCs were invariably the campaigns run by very close friends with only a couple of players, where we each had half-a-dozen PCs running around, so we just tried out all sorts of concepts.

Characters rumble up in my head with gender attached, so when I'm determining what sort of PC I want, I'm usually sort of "selecting" from a bunch of individuals I'm already interested in, and sometimes those have happened to be female. Never really thought much about it, wasn't the slightest bit awkward, but wouldn't do it with a game full of strangers.

On the other hand, I try to make sure I'm always having more sex than my PCs. I get jealous otherwise. As does my wife.

 

[Aeson]

I normally DM but I'm taking a break and a player in my group will take over for a few sessions. I plan to play in the game. I had a cool concept I stole from another message board. It is a female character. Most of my characters had always been male. I can't remember a time I played a female PC. Once long ago I was asked why I didn't want to play a female character. I was 20 at the time and replied that I didn't know women very well and wished not to attempt to play one. Well 10 years later I still don't know women very well.

Could someone offer some serious advice on playing a character of the opposite gender? She is a goth and a bit on the creepy Wednesday Addams side. I'm not even going to try a female voice. I don't want to turn playing her into a joke.

 

[Dextolen]

I usually play my sex (Male), but have made female characters once in a while. I know a guy who only plays female characters - and plays them really cheezily, it sorta creeps me out. Whatever floats yer boat.

 

[gizmo33]

It's not nearly as good.

Oh. I thought this thread was about something else. Nevermind.

 

[palleomortis]

I think that playing another sex is harder, becase you have to put your mind in another track. I can't really do that at all, so mine are all big, buff, and stupid guys.

 

[orsal]

Once long ago I was asked why I didn't want to play a female character. I was 20 at the time and replied that I didn't know women very well and wished not to attempt to play one. Well 10 years later I still don't know women very well.

I don't know a lot of people, or groups of people, very well. I don't know melee fighters well at all. I've never even met a wizard. I don't grasp the mindset of evil characters. And dwarves -- no, don't know any personally.

That doesn't stop me from roleplaying all of the above. Given that I have far more experience with women than with any of the races or classes, and most of the alignments, in D&D, I don't think it should stop me from playing a woman either. I could play a lawful evil female halfling sorceror, and the sex or gender would be the least unfamiliar or incomprehensible aspect of the character.