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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor_Malek" data-source="post: 5336164" data-attributes="member: 91608">Well you've already fell for one, but hopefully not too deep <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> You assume there's some major difference. Or that there's none.Think of all NPC's as it's the case with angels - it's not which one they are, but the fact that they're neither. Anything and everything you might connect to given sex relies on culture it's in. And I do mean everything. Even what we call "maternal instinct" is not universally occuring, and it's paternal instinct in some cultures (OK, to be fair I know of only one).So in your own world, it's a carte blanche. It depends solely on what you want to achieve with story, or what kind of world you want to build, and what your characters will want to achieve.Even what we have sewed into our minds by culture is not that deep though. In psychological studies, sex is either irrelevant to final results differentiation, or very rarely confirms or completely overturns our habits (like the puppy + electrical shock study <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).What you have here, designing a female NPC as male DM is similar exercise to any creation of NPC's. What do you do, when you're creating a neutral necromancer? It's not like you raised any zombies yourself, or even used magic.You compose this character. You give him goals and abilities. You add background. And now, everything he does is more or less reaction to what's around him.For example, the situation you mentioned - PC's making some sexual remarks to NPC. First off, who is the NPC? It's rather safe to assume that she had to deal with stuff like that on numerous occasions, and it's nothing more or less than an irritating, common re-occurrence. Though if she's particularly influential - she might be accustomed to more classy approach.It doesn't mean the female NPC would be irrevocably against any advances. If the PC has charisma of 20, and is already known as a powerful hero... I hate to break it, but if I noticed one distinction between women and men talking about well crafted bottoms - it's that men I know put less heart in it (might be my confirmation bias though). Even then though, there's an escape plan that women use for such emergencies, and might come in handy to DM - label such PC as "cute". It's the same men do - when someone is undeniably attractive, not only physically, but with reasonable amount of charm... but is just... you know*.So the crucial, most important thing you need to actually focus on is... not to over-think it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Just play her as you'd do with any male NPC, and if her ovaries come up, just don't panic (unless they, like literally pop out ← fine to panic). Try to remember some female protagonists from modern (hopefully not too pulpy) literature. Would Clarice Starling be any different if she was a bloke? On the other hand - did the fact that Ursula le Guin was female herself - made her characters, bulk (all?) of which were male - less believable? Would it matter if you imagined Ged to be a woman? Unless you actually want to make a damsel in distress or some other trope - just relax, and do what you always do.Huh. Now that I thought of Starling - there actually was an important reason why a woman was put there instead of Will Graham. Sexual tension was the only way to make a connection with Hannibal without retconning most of what we knew about him from first book (and he himself, rare gem as he was already - simply couldn't be a woman - there was under 100 female serial killers in US that we know of (96 last time I checked, so it might be slightly above now), and their modus operandi was noticeably different from male counterparts (again, with several exceptions). A "pure psychopath" was far fetched already, and a female one at that would be just too much of suspension-of-disbelief breaker).Sorry for a long start-up, but what I'm getting at is: and why exactly is this NPC a woman? *customisable <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Put in this spot what is missing - intellect, too much, too few self reliance, whatever is crucial for you to be attracted to someone. In this case you can just put in there whatever the character is lacking in <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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