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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bae'zel" data-source="post: 9565642" data-attributes="member: 7048197">I only have issue with gender swapping when it affects older established characters, some derived from literature, where their gender was kind of the point.Vlad Drakov in the 5e Ravenloft book, for example. I personally think he's a more detestable villain if he's a guy as it just "feels" better to explain the character's toxic macho militarism. Vladeska is okay, I guess, but the book softens her deeds a little and makes her into more of a "I've gotta do my grim duty, no matter the cost" instead of the former "I'm a sadistic monster obsessed with military conquest and I'll impale my towntrodden peasants for even the most minor of crimes". If they'd kept her equally as horrible as before, I'd feel better about the gender switch, but... I guess that it was beyond the PG rating of the book. Shift the focus of Falkovnia mroe on zombie invasions than the horrors of tyrants.I guess that war crimes committed by humans are far worse than the spooky deeds of ghosts and ghouls.Anyway, for my own campaign, I've chosen Vlad over Vladeska because it is somehow easier for me to describe and portray an irredeemably bloodthirsty tyrant if he's a man. My players, all ladies, agree, but hey, to each their own.</blockquote>