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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6957285" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't play that often, and mostly play male PCs. The last time I remember playing a woman PC was a long time ago now at a convention, in a CoC freeform. The basic framing for the three-session game was that my character's son had been taken to hell by his father (my (ex-)partner). The other PCs were my daughter, her boyfriend, and my son's friends.The issue of family drama/trauma was pretty central to the game. As it happened, at the time I had a couple of very close former school friends (sisters) whose father had recently abandoned the family. I was close to their mother also, and I used my knowledge of her experiences and responses as a basic template/guideline for playing my character. It seemed to work fine (I got the tournament prize for that particular PC).In my regular games I've had a few male players over the years play female PCs. It's never been a big deal. Sex tends not to be a very big part of our games, so being a woman rather than a man is mostly just an issue of flavour/characterisation.In the BW game that I'm currently running, one of the PCs is a woman played by a man. On a couple of occasions, there have been situations where women NPCs are threatened by male NPCs (not necessarily sexually, but BW if a fairly gritty game with a somewhat S&S tone, and so the undertones of gendered violence have been present). On those occasions the player has played his PC - who is a sort-of necromancer/assassin - as feeling particularly protective of the women NPCs. In the context of our RPGing, this is quite a heavy foregrounding of PC gender.</blockquote>

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