What do you think about cross-gender characters (i.e., men playing female characters and women playing male characters)? What about GMs playing them as NPCs?I really have no issues with men playing female characters or women playing male characters.
I've seen it done well and I've seen it done not-so-well. I've also seen the guys with fetishes - only playing female characters, and those overly endowed and wanting sex all the time.
I've been fortunate enough to not see the reverse with the women I've seen played. I haven't played with a huge variety of women, but they've managed to stay away from the stereotypes.
As a GM, I think I've done a decent job of playing male NPCs. I have one as my main NPC in my ATF game. I think I've done an okay job with Tallis, and with his cohort, Zel.
As brief NPCs, I don't have a complaint about any male GM I've encountered doing a female character. I can't recall any GM doing a long-term female NPC, so I'm not really qualified to comment.
And if someone can play an elf, dwarf, or mutated space alien, why can't they play cross-gender?
What I'd love to see is someone play a hermaphrodite or neuter as a long-term character!
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I've done neuters. I haven't done hermaphrodites because the common thinking is still to be raised as "one or another" gender. Frankly, if we want to get into the "weird-out zone" I'd like to run someone of a fifth or sixth gender... ("What? Oh, no, I don't like her. I can't be alone with her. I have to be alone with six or seven people, the way you humans figure it.")
Erm.
Posted by MT Fierce | September 24, 2002 10:57 PM
Posted on September 24, 2002 22:57
I find myself for some strange reason enormously tempted to play a eunuch... it'd work in one of the campaigns I'm currently in. Too bad I already have a good character going in that campaign. She isn't overly tough, though, so she could end up dead...
Posted by Dorothea Salo | September 25, 2002 9:59 AM
Posted on September 25, 2002 09:59