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By: Ravenous Role Playing » Blog Archive » Friday Five: 2009-10-23

Ravenous Role Playing » Blog Archive » Friday Five: 2009-10-23 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:51:23 +0000

[...] Character Sheet Cross Dressing Playing a character of the opposite sex can be a huge blast. I’m not talking about logging into your favorite MMORPG as a member of the opposite sex and flirting with people when your true identity is hidden. I’m talking about sitting at the table with a beer gut and a five-o-clock shadow and playing that elven maiden… or for you ladies, sitting there with makeup on and a fresh manicure and playing a belching, farting barbarian. Sure, I’m taking things to the extreme with my examples, but that’s not necessary. As a matter of fact, taking the opposite sex to the extreme will only be good for some laughs, and could potentially offend the other people at the table. For more details about playing someone totally different, check out Nicholas’s post over at Dungeon Mastering. [...]

By: ScottM

ScottM — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:29:06 +0000

As a GM, I regularly play characters of both genders. As a player, I default to male characters, unless a specific character concept encourages otherwise. Some of my favorite characters were female. Let me tell you at great length about Alanora the bard…

Hmm, cleared the room? On the flip side, my wife tends to play about 50/50, though she likes aliens without identifiable gender. I know that her initial character with a new group is usually male; playing a female character in a group you don’t know can open you up to horrible commentary or differential treatment. Making a man seems to successfully signal “I’m here to kill Orcs– let’s get to it”.

By: Krys

Krys — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:27:11 +0000

I like playing all different kinds of characters. As a Dungeon Mistress, a lot of times it’s necessity. As a player, though, I’ve played a very well-endowed male stone child who just LOOOVVVVEEEDDD getting nekked. He was arrested a lot for public indecency. I’ve also played a bisexual Baptist female farmer bard who got her singing skills from choir practice. I’ve played a scuzzy female who was obsessed with trying out toilets. I’ve played an Eladrin female warlord who was very Captain Janeway-esque. My characters are just generally quirky, male or female.

Krys

By: Jade

Jade — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:40:18 +0000

As a female player, most of my characters are male. Not because of political reasons, or wish fulfillment or increased status in campaign worlds. I play male characters simply because I can’t see the characters I play in any other way. I usually find my character’s sex until I’m mid-way through the creation process; I let the character tell me if they’re male or female (or other).

I once had character where I got to the end of the creation process and I still had no idea what the characters sex was — so I made the character completely androgynous. It made for some great roleplaying, since the character let everyone around him/her decide whether to refer to her/him as “he” or “she” and would respond to both. When talking about the character, I carefully alternated between “he” and “she”.

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:48:26 +0000

Personally when I play females they tend to be soft talking versions of their male counterparts. Maybe it’s a lack of understanding of the female mentality but I personally don’t see them being that much different.

I have seen players really play up the stereo types of women though sometimes to hilarious effect.