When Bob wants to play a female PC

[John Morrow]

Expected patterns? Pray tell, how many of us here have any experience in dealing in social or combat situations with females, hell, males even, from a fantasy world containing dragons, magic, and gods that go around smashing atheists windows? What patterns are we going to expect?

We are going to expect what we have experienced. Believability in role-playing games isn't about realism but versimilitude -- the appearance of realism. In many cases, I suspect that a realistic role-playing game wouldn't be very popular because it wouldn't be what people expect.

 

[Plane Sailing]

One way or another I think this thread has run it's course. It has been reported to the moderators a number of times, even after my warning.

I hope that Destan, battered and bruised, has got value from it.

Clunk.