Thread 96275348

Have you ever played a female character?
Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?

yes, because I enjoy fantasy roleplay, not self-inserting
I don't have to worry about other players, because my games are for me

Yes. And I hope so.

>>96275348 (OP)
Never have but make voices for female characters in online campaigns (no lgs near me) makes things awkward and ruins the immersion so if there would be males playing female or me doing that I’d rather the online rp session to be text based.

Who wouldn't feel weird about your bro showing up with this on his sheet? Then getting a little romance-y? You gotta blush.

>>96275367
You're in every character you make and play. There's no way to completely disassociate yourself from the decision you make for that character or the tiniest inclinations that pile up into the extrapolation of their personalities.
No comment on your weird 'games are for me' line. Maybe you only play Solo or not at all?

>>96275386
Based.

>>96275394
Just don't do voices. This isn't community theater. Tell them if the NPC has a weird accent or something then just talk normally or in the third person by summarizing what they said instead of going word for word.

>>96275367
>I don't have to worry about other players, because my games are for me
So you don't actually play games, you just daydream about it.

>>96275348 (OP)
There's nothing weird about women going there so why should men give a shit either?
Don't be a misandrist complaining men just being men are creepy, you're just as bad thinking about it that way yourself.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Most of my characters, yeah.

>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No, because we can differentiate between fantasy and reality.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Yes.
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Once. As a joke.

My wife always wants out characters to be in some sort of relationship. Not always romantic - sometimes siblings or buddy cop partners or whatever - but always connected, and if we don't start with a relationship in our backstory then she'll make sure we end the campaign in one. One time I made my character as the classic 'girl pretends to be a man so she can runaway and enlist' archetype, mostly so I could reveal the truth when my wife's character made her inevitable declaration of love.
It was fun. Everyone laughed. No one was uncomfortable.

OK /tg/.
Would you say your character is the most popular one in the campaign?
Or do you think you get on the DM's nerves a little? lol

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
yea
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
no
i've also seen girls play men

>>96275348 (OP)
Deedlit was played by a man? I guess it's a given, since there was probably a single digit of jap RPG nerds in that decade, but wow, I really didn't think of that.

>>96275348 (OP)
Once, involuntarily, GM's trap chest forcibly genderbent mine an my then gf's characters. Gf stopped playing females a while later, for unrelated reasons, she made a chick in Dark Souls 2 and found it distracting that her walk cycle shook her ass so much, and decided she'd never voluntarilly play females in games ever again. I wouldn't mind playing a female, actually kinda want to ever since I've watched madan no ou to vanadis, playing someone like Eleonora Viltaria as a warlord in 4e sounds fun, but I'm a perma GM now, so I have too many characters idea I'd like to try before too.

>>96275348 (OP)
Sure, back when I was an awkward teenager with very little understanding of myself.
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
My friends were also awkward teenagers so: sure. Everything awkward teenagers do, think and say is awkward. We grow out of it. Let teens figure it out. Boarding schools exist for a reason.

>>96275608
Yeah. The late Hiroshi Yamamoto.

>single digit count of jap RPG nerds
Indeed. The Lodoss sessions were run and recorded in order to introduce and get people interested in TRPG in the mid 80s when it had zero presence.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes and yes.
>Be 16 at the time
>First campaign ever
>Be certified that guy supreme™
>Just murderhoboed my way through the campaign
>GM was heavily into railroading
>Never was able to put his foot down though
>Only way he knew, how to get us back on track were bullshit encounters and GMPCs
>One particularly tame session he decides I've had too many lucky rolls
>As a punishment I got death by DMPC
>Decided to retaliate
>Roll up female elf
>Name her after his waifu at the time
>Did I mention, this guy was chronically unable to say "No"?
>Play her as the biggest slut possible
>All the while the other players and I now started to smoke the GMs pot during sessions
>It devolved to us basically writing porn at this point
>Stuff like my character sneaking into stables at night and trying to earn money as a prostitute
>Also being very graphic while doing so
>GM is VERY uncomfortable but he is a pushover outside of bullshit encounters
>At this point we sometimes straight up told him we didn't want to, when he tries to pull one of them
>Basically had strikes at the table so he'd cancel battles and we'd continue the asventures of the murderhobos and the whore
>Finally when one player vomited all over his bathroom he called quits and banned us from his home
A year later I started running my own campaign with the same players. Using a better system and better prep and writing we actually had quite the awesome campaign. We denounced our wicked ways, but the guy has been the benchmark for shitty GMing in our group ever since.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes.
No.

Pic related was one of the characters I played.

>>96275422
Nah I'd just think he's got immaculate taste.

>>96275592
these character descriptions fucking suck
>bland protag guy but given a distinct description
>the chick. she's popular because yes
>generic description of dwarf, refers to mystery, no reason given
>chill mage with little side not about the dm's issues, probably with the guy playing him and so irrelevant
>boy that leveled up recently. that's it
>generic but distinct description of a older thief guy
no wonder dnd didn't take off in japan if this is an indication of the writing

>>96275684
>Confusing from either direction
I hate this because it's one torso rotation away from being rad. It just shouldn't be this hard to figure out wtf I'm looking at.

>>96275692
It's all very brief and to the point writing. These were magazine articles with maybe a couple pages of space.

Keep in mind also that this was a time in D&D where characters were made through gameplay, not in their overwrought backstories and descriptions.

>>96275700
See, that's why I like it. The artist is a personal friend and she drew it entirely on a whim (though I did end up paying her anyway because what the fuck, this is great). Anyway, when she's viewed head on it's confusing, but when you rotate her, her expression is clearly readable - she's gonna fuck your shit up.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Yea. Most of them. Just how it is.
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
Eh, I don't think so, but I also don't play with randos either. Really, just don't play with randos and most of your problems are solved.

>>96275703
but these are just as short but much better except for the dwarf

>>96275348 (OP)
Only once, she was a brown tomboy fighter with a giant greatsword and the Crossbow Expert feat. Had a fuckton of fun paying her.

I doubt it made anyone uncomfortable since the DM at the time had played a female character the campaign prior and everyone else present almost made weird characters.

>>96275348 (OP)
I play Nechronica so
>Yes
And
>Yes but probably not for the reason implied.

>>96275781
Sure. They change a little as the sessions progress too, depending on what they did during the adventure.

For example, the reason Ghim is described as mysterious could be the first article where the DM briefly describes some nearby geography and when he explains the White Dragon Range is the home of the Dwarves Ghim says "I have no home and I have no regrets."
It really created a mystique about his past with very few words.

>>96275747
>Yea. Most of them.
Most female characters in TTRPGs have been played by you, you mean? That's pretty impressive.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes and yes, but it depended on the group. My online friends didn't bat an eye, but at least one guy in my in person group found it strange. I think it is more awkward when you can see the player directly.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Yes

>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No. Several of the other guys also have played females in the past and 2 of the girls at the table are currently playing male characters

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes but it turns out it doesn't have any benefits outside of ERP games.

>>96275348 (OP)
I've played as a woman in text roleplay, but never in person or in voice. When I do text roleplay, I think of it as more of a collaborative writing exercise so I can play any character I really feel like, but if I actually have to TALK and ACT as a woman... Fuck that, I'm just fundamentally uncomfortable with it.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes, tons of them

>foreverDM

>>96276539
The only female voice I can do decently is old grandma/crazy cat lady, personally.

>>96276463
>when you see the player directly
AKA actual real Tabletop RPG.

>>96276543
Felt.

>>96276561
Like from the Simpsons?

>>96276610
This OOtS?

>>96275348 (OP)
>played a female character?
Obviously, you think I'd run games where the world contains zero women?

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
About 50/50 gender split for my PCs, excluding the shapeshifters. But I'm also a GM so RPing some women comes with the territory regardless.

>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
The other guys in my group play women far more often, so no.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Most of my characters were female.
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No, because I didn't go out of my way to make it uncomfortable or awkward for them. What would that even involve?

>>96275348 (OP)
I will give it to you as bluntly as I can.

>Playing as your character, who happens to be a woman?
Good, enjoy the game.

>Playing a woman, who happens to be your character?
Go find another DM. I run stories and strategy. I don't write porn and I'm not your shrink either.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
No, unless you mean playing female NPCs when I ran a game, in which case yes.
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?

I tried it once, as a teen. 20 years later my friends still think I'm gay.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Yes, a few times.
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No, I don't play with faggots.

I've never played a female character cause that's really fucking gay. I've played female NPCs and there's a small bit of enjoyment there but they're not MY character and it's temporary so it feels less gay. My group however is mostly men and some of them play female characters and of those 1 has become a tranny and the other is bound to any day now. I mean ALL of their characters are female. Meanwhile they claim to be female yet do not act feminine at all. They also don't jerk off to porn or mention being attracted to women. They are asexual. They are loud (why are nerds always so fucking loud) and brash. They play nothing but female characters. I'll admit at least they don't sexualize them but still.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Yes.
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No, because she crossdresses.

I didn't allow my players to play as females without taking a hefty amount of disadvantages (we played GURPS)

Playing a female character is a pretty good litmus test on what sort of people are in the group.

So yes, I always play them.

>>96277444
How does GURPS handle the cramps mechanics?
Just plain -ST and penalty to getting noticed by smell?

>>96277541
Based Kurobot.

It depends heavily on how you play. If you are exclusively player avatar I guess it could get weird, or if you make it cringe but I feel that would apply to male characters too. If you have a gimmick or archetype then it's as weird as a writer having female characters in a novel or tv script.

I run games, obviously I have male and female NPCs, I don't think it ever was an issue for anyone.

In the table I'm playing whfrpg a dude plays a girl and it's pretty evident he had a certain archetype in mind, the only issue was that he gave her a pretty common name and so did the female player so the GM kept mixing up their names.
A couple times I played with dudes who had grandma type characters, in the extremes of cookie baking nice old lady and absolute harpy. The first was more of a reactive than role playing type of player so it didn't matter much, the later was with pregens and I had an old man so we kept bickering and accusing each other of senile shit all the time.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Yes
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
>>96275538

>>96275638
Oh, that's right, I got gender bent in ToA. But I also got 40 years older which was the bigger issue both in times of survivavility and our cleric having the running gag that he was a man in his late 50's who was into older women.

>>96275422
>You gotta blush.
>Bro, stop seducing me! Not cool!

>>96275592
I could see groups where I had the most popular character for an imaginary audience, mainly groups where I was the only one being consistent session to session. But never the type of character you'd put in all promotional material.

>>96275781
You're comparing an older one to a previous one. Why cram 4 sessions of backstory when you could just order a back issue? If anything an inside joke makes it sound like something you had to be there to get.
After that it's a matter of taste. I personally prefer something about the real life situation than in character stuff for an intro.

>>96276673
>AKA actual real Tabletop RPG.
>his DM doesn't hide behind a filing cabinet
>still thinks he plays D&D as intended

>>96277398
>They are loud (why are nerds always so fucking loud)
I think the issue is hiding and ignoring the things they enjoy, and when they finally get a chance to bring it up they're just not trained to do it in a responsible way. So they act like little children.
It happens with other stuff that isn't as promoted as nerd stuff too, for example I've seen people who were way too into sports calm down about it and turn into people that have interesting ideas about ball kicking.

>>96275592
>Most popular
Probably not, I like playing characters that don't take centerstage as much but that also makes others stand out more
>Getting on GM's nerves
Absolutely not lol, I love his borderline sadistic and favouritistic style (his actual rulings are fair dw) and make sure to let him know. It's built me up some credit :3

>>96275348 (OP)

Even through the filter of four decades, anonymity, and the magazine article trimming out most of the side-chatter, everyone in the Lodoss War game is relatable, like someone I've gamed with many times before.

Parn's player is the nerd who can pass as a normie in real life. Optimistic, extroverted, always trying to keep his autist bros on-track.

Deedlit's player is a high-functioning coomer.

Ghim's player is a powergamer who wants to kill everything.

Wood Chuck's player is checked out.

>>96275348 (OP)
I've mostly played female characters. People seem to respond more to them. Having some art on hand for reference probably helps people distinguish between your character and you as a narrator of what your character says and does.

>>96277444
So you don't have any players because you are a unlikable retard.

>>96275828
Between Parn and Deedlit we can tell which player the DM likes more

What do you do to differentiate between male and female characters /tg/?

>>96278369
Gender doesn't matter unless the PCs are going to rizz them up, in which case it would be stated if relevant.

>>96278369
Not a ton. Mostly just give them feminine hobbies/interests on the side. You'd be surprised how much RP cred you get out of just picking a flower when the opportunity arises.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes.
No.

>>96275348 (OP)
About 50% of the time. I pick my character's based on what I think best suits the overall role or theme I'm going for. My female DM said I play them quite realistically.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yeah. Not as often as I play male characters though, just as a matter of preference. It's easier to play as someone more like me, but sometimes I come up with ideas for lady characters that I like and want to use.

No, it doesn't make anyone in my current group feel awkward. Half of them are trans anyway, so they're not really hung up on the whole "gender" thing. I don't think it bothered anyone in my previous groups either. Also, pretty much everyone who GMs sometimes plays female characters to some extent. It's really not like it's a big deal, even if you were to assume that all of the players at a table are always males (which isn't the case).

>Have you ever played a female character?
Yes because my DM has turned half my male characters into women so might as fucking well. I get it, the girdle of masculinity/femininity is an item. It stopped being funny the 3rd time.
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No. My antics are tame compared to some of the people who have come and gone. I wasnt the one who went into graphic detail about raping a peasant girl while in werewolf form. He did knot leave anything to the imaginartion.

>>96279770
Maybe stop putting on items before finding out what they are.

>>96275348 (OP)
Many times
Don't care

>>96275348 (OP)
I've inherited a female cleric from a different player in a pathfinder game. I find it uncomfortable, in part because it's not my character and in part because of the image of said character the old player picked.
I'm fixing this by building an orcish witch doctor, which I'll be far more comfortable with and probably capable of piloting a lot better.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Play WoW in high school (yes I know this isn't /v/, shut up)
>have a bunch of characters
>one of them is a female night elf hunter because in night elf lore the women are the hunters
>eventually get bored of WoW and give my account to my gay friend
>realize I had a female character
>worried that word might get out and everyone will think I'm gay
>he meets up with me a week later
>hey anon, I paid to have all your characters turned into girls is that okay?
>phew
>now everyone will think he's gay and not me

>>96275348 (OP)
I do sometimes if I feel it would make the character more fun.
The last one I played probably did make the other players a bit uncomfortable but that had less to do with her being a woman and more to do with her being a horror movie nun who ate children.

>>96280003
>in part because of the image of said character the old player picked
Well you can't just say that without posting it or at least describing it.

>>96277560
GURPS actually no-shit suggests female characters having lower ST if the players are down with it
But it's a point buy system so it doesn't matter at all

>>96275348 (OP)
>>96275592
Wait, they clarified that besides evil monsters there's also evil non-monsters. But are there good monsters or non-evil monsters?

>>96275592
Btw, everyone else here is a fucking jobber while Chad Slayn solos everything. Not even joking.

It depends on the game, the setting, the characters my friends are bringing to the table and what I want to play.

Yes. I realized that playing a lesbian as a male makes you pretty much immune to a lot of DM's bullshit and has a lot of advantages. Try it sometimes and see what happens when you attempt to use flirt and seduction to get some piece of information from a male NPC as a lesbian character. The DM's brain starts boiling and he just grants you what you want because he wants to avoid opening that entire can of worms.

>>96280832
Slayn is a cheater. He's clearly read the Dungeon Master's part of the Box Set and beyond.

He's constantly calling out the Monsters' names and abilities, and seems to know what every Spell is and what it does. He's a meta-gamer.
However, he goes along with the flow and doesn't rules lawyer. The DM just seems upset because he's a skilled player and kind of thwarts what is supposed to be challenging lol

>>96280969
Doesn't he also get a redeemed goth mommy wife

>>96280998
Haha. I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe he seduces Karla somehow. That fits in with becoming the DM's nemesis, charming their powerful antagonist lol

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Most of the characters I play are female. Its the same for vidya.

>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
As long as you're not playing, "Sexica, the Voluptuous Knight", you'll be fine.
Just remember to play the character and not the gender, which should be easy if you made a proper backstory or some general traits.

Hmm, a hot take herein by Mizuno-sensei.

/tg/DM, have you ever killed an annoying character or protected a cute one?
Do you manipulate your die rolls and most importantly, would you let a little cheating slide in the name of fun?

I used to play female characters.

Now I only play male characters that used to be women.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes and I WILL flirt and ask out male PCs in game

>>96281547
Better be ready to back it up, hot lips.
In game I mean.

>>96281128
No, no, no, and no. The jap RPG scene seems to be all about acting out highly scripted scenarios, so minor cheating probably isn't a big deal to them, but that's not how I play. I value the integrity of the game.

Playing maid as all boys is definitely gayer than just being girls.

>>96281128
>Do you manipulate your die rolls
I don't roll dice, I just make them do it.
>have you ever killed an annoying character or protected a cute one?
I only ever let them die as a consequence of their choices. GMing for me is mostly about providing rope for hanging themselves and cliffs to jump off.
>would you let a little cheating slide in the name of fun?
I probably would but my friends would never let each other get away with it.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes and yes, on purpose

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes, all the time. My favorite to play was a Star Wars campaign where I played an Arkanian Alternate Jedi Padawan. And since the campaign started at the Jedi temple with our characters going to class, I of course had to make her tsundere-as-fuck. Up to and including calling another player baka in the first session.
Pic related is ai slopped up rendition of her as a miniature.

>>96282024
Jerk off before playing with other people

>>96282051
Okay. Also, anon, I forgot my dice, can I borrow yours?

>>96275348 (OP)
Nechronica has no concept of male PCs, except if we count Necromancer/DM as a player themselves.

>>96275348 (OP)
Most recently, she was unknowingly dating a Mage and he decided to keep her and started fleshsculpting her into a perfect doll-girl, by the time she managed to kill him with his own sword and become a Lunar Exalted she was about 4'10" and looked like a punkish non-tryharding Harley Quinn, who would turn into an anthromorphic pangolin ninja because she kept the sword.

>>96282217
But also, what is a definition of a girl? A lot of times characters in Nechronica can become weird kitbashes of biological and mechanical parts maybe keeping some elements of original body.

>>96282217
>Nechronica has no concept of male PCs
odd think is, it's location Any, not Torso as one would expect

>>96282240
>what is a definition of a girl?
Human born with two X chromosomes.

>>96282244
Dicks growing out of palms or whatever is absolutely normal for this game.

>>96282268
it says male features not necessarily a dick - could mean chiseled chin, boyish smirk, or yaoi hands

>>96282257
show me your chromosomes

> southern belle fighter
> kept saying “ah dew deeclaya!” and “Gracious!” after fucking up bugbears

>>96283080
We were playing maid and someone rolled southern belle and angel on the random traits table so he called her Annab-El and did that exact voice.
Also she was a necromancer.

>>96275348 (OP)
Yes. About 40% of my characters.
Which leads to the time, recently, my bro asked me if I was a closet tranny as "you only play female characters" when I handed him a female character sheet for a one shot session.
When in his main campaign I was playing as a male human fighter. And was playing a male human bard in the other campaign, which I had started playing in as a male lizardman barbarian.
He realised his mistake, much to everyone's amusement.

>>96277768
>the running gag that he was a man in his late 50's who was into older women.
Been there, our 2m tall elf warrior liked taller women, because his player got smitten by the owner of a restaurant we went to once (2m10 full figure blonde with blue eyes and dough kneading arms). We had to fight all sorts of giantesses and whatnots since he just didn't have the charisma to back up his yearnings.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Yes
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No, that was my femboy rogue who got knocked up and gave our DM a new fetish

>>96282055
First lick that mess up

>>96280827
Fay.

>>96275348 (OP)
Lots of times
Kinda sorta depends on the concept which it will be and no, I don't think it has ever weirded anyone out

A couple times, in in person games most people forget my character is female.
For voice based online games no one cares.
Picrel is my character from Ravenloft, it is fun playing a scared little girl.

>>96280006
You're not gay for playing a female character, you're gay for playing Alliance.

>>96283644
>gave the DM a new fetish

If your DM allowed your character to get boypreggers I don't think it was new Anon.

>>96283080
Soulful and based

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
Yes to the first, no to the second. One of the pregens for D&D3.5 was Alundra the Paladin, a chick.
When I played her, the fact she was a woman didn't come up at all. And that, I think, is the best way to handle it: I'm a dude, so fundamentally every character I play is going to be a dude.

>>96286523
I'd say the DM only allowed it by accident. Mainly it came up after a fade to black hookup with another PC.
>"You know, this item I have could let Other PC knock up Femboy for real."
>"Oh that's hot. Would he? Femboy'd think it was a joke until later and then be into it."
>"Definitely, putting kids in another guy is the peak of manliness."
And our poor DM having to sit there and process that convo as he realized a few things about himself.

>>96290206
What are you, a bunch of ancient Greeks?

>>96290268
Or at least the other PC was given that attitude toward it.

>>96275348 (OP)
A few times, not nearly as much as i play men. I played them exactly the same as i'd play a male character except i drew a lady on the character sheet instead of a man and i don't think it bothered anyone.
If you're just playing a character in the RolePlayingGame then you're only going to offend prudes who would be just as offended if you played a dwarf or teifling.

>>96275422
>Just don't do voices. This isn't community theater.

>>96290206
So yeah, he had it already and you fags were playing some lewd game in the first place where an item that enables mpreg would conceivably exist.

>>96293729
>I just played a man
So you failed roleplaying a female you mean. Because Men and Women are not the same on a fundamental, psychological level.

>>96275592
>The girl is the most popular
no wonder.

>>96293799
Well it's not like the Poll was very big. They had less than 100 votes IIRC. Deedlit had like 20 or something.

He seems like a decent player too. Not as meta-gamey as Slayn but capable and clever. Gotta be mindful though the Replay is VERY truncated and mentions a lot of stuff in passing.
But the things it does include more fully paint a very competent and dependable picture of Deedlit.

>>96293791
>Because Men and Women are not the same on a fundamental, psychological level.
that may be true, but who cares? I'm not going for an emmy when i play a game with my friends.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
Yes
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
The GM made an effort to make it uncomfortable and awkward. Kept trying to set up rapey situations and having her stuck with weird creeps. Finally I declared an attack on one of these NPCs and he was like "are you really going to start a deadly fight over this?" and l was like "I'd rather derail the campaign with senseless violence than roleplay weird sex stuff with you. Everytime you try to take it there she is going to start blasting with no exceptions." And he took the hint and stopped.

>>96293791
>Because Men and Women are not the same on a fundamental, psychological level.
NTA but all you need is one or two basic motivations and all your rp and major decisions can flow from there without needing to worry about their gender much. PCs are socially unusual to begin with and have or are pursuing power beyond normal cultural expectations. A normal woman and a sorceress are goung to be fundamentally different on a psychologucal level, because the personal power of a sorceress allows her to transcend mundane concerns.

>>96275348 (OP)
I'm usually the DM, so yes, of course I have. Would be pretty stupid to have every NPC be a dude just because you are one as well, wouldn't it?

>>96293799
Source?

>>96294404
>>96275592
>She is currently the most popular character in the character contest.
Anonymous-sama...

>>96275348 (OP)
I tried to once. Made one during character creation because we rolled dice and with the stats I got, it felt right the character should be a woman. I know in the modern day political climate of 4chan that you guys would just call it based, but I'm pretty sure the DM thought I was trying to go "tranny" on him for whatever bizarre reason even though I also stood against it. Without discussing it with me, he proceeded to get exceptionally combative over EVERYTHING I tried doing with that character up until I finally said "fuck this" and left. Also pretty sure one of the other players in a drunken fit confessed he was crushing huge on my character, which came out of nowhere.

>>96294426
That's so obviously not Deedlit.

>>96281128
Literally how I DM. I don't make it obvious but my campaigns are quantum ogre everywhere and I'm not quite a forever DM and no one has ever complained in over a decade of me playing RPGs regularly.

>>96281128
Obviously. I and the players determine how fun the campaign is, not the dice

>>96281128
No(castration, yes), no, yes, maybe. Depending on what "a little" means, and more importantly if the other players notice.

>>96294473
It's Deedlit in her JAV debut, anon.

>>96281128
Sometimes, when a player is just barely shy of succeeding at something important that I myself can't fudge (e.g. making a big, fancy attack and rolling one number off against an AC that my players have already pinpointed through trial and error), I start asking if the player is "forgetting" any bonuses they could possibly have—basically my way of letting them either legitimately recheck their numbers (I run PF1e, so there's a lot of random miscellaneous bonuses to consider) or invent a lie like "I forgot to add flanking" when they did in fact already add it. For my numerically-challenged players, I'll do the latter for them without asking and "assume they forgot" unless they themselves "correct" me. Surprisingly, some do actually correct me.

>>96294525
As much as people love to tout "player agency", most players don't actually mind chances and choices being illusions so long as it isn't blatantly obvious. I obscure my quantum ogres by having the players roll d100s for "events" whenever randomization is feasible (with high numbers portending "positive events for the PCs" and low numbers the opposite), such as monsters on travels, people in taverns, loot on mooks, so on and so forth, keeping it random most of the time but having some events I quietly have at a ~100% chance of happening (depending on the roll, I dance up the flavor to make it feel either "good" or "bad"). If a particular time or location isn't important but the nature of the event is (i.e. it is definitively either positive or negative and can't be disguised as another or neutral), I'll often set the probability low with the expectation that the PCs will roll enough times to eventually trigger it—especially useful for "search" quests when you don't have a map.

>>96275348 (OP)
>Have you ever played a female character?
I've played a grand total of 3 out of several dozens of characters. I also GM so I "play" female NPCs all the fucking time. Somehow the latter never seems to spark debate. Curious...
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
No, because I'm not a delusional autogynephiliac faggot and neither are the other people in my group. One of my female characters was a high CHA sorceress and would sometimes get her way by seducing NPCs, but I kept it short and subtle.
This is theater, characters are not you, they're devices to interact with the game mechanics while collectively telling a story. If I have an interesting character in mind I'd like to bring to life, I'll do it regardless of how different they may be from me. This goes not just for playing women, but also playing characters with radically different views from mine. Again, people get their panties into a twist about playing female characters but somehow don't have a problem playing evil torturers, or brainwashed cult members worshipping demons and Great Old Ones.
Sure, play a woman if you have an interesting female character in mind. Just don't act like a fucking drag queen at my table. Same shit when someone plays an evil character, by all means do it if you have something interesting in mind, but no one needs detailed descriptions of your orphan maiming escapades.

>>96275348 (OP)
I have the opposite problem: a female playera that exclusively plays male characters. I think she may be a fujo but I can't confirm since there isn't any romance in our games.

>>96275348 (OP)
My wizard found a cursed circlet that gave him +8 INT, had to roll for a random bad effect the DM put together with a d100. Ended up turning into a woman but the int was too good to pass up. I hid myself from the party at all times and wore increasingly bulkier robes because his pride wouldn't wouldn't let him live it down in front of his friends.

>>96293861
>>96293861
...Wood Chuck?

All my chars are random. I flip a coin for sex so I've played plenty of female chars.
It doesn't really matter. As long as the DM isn't a weird coomer, it's basically the same as a male char outside of a few different storytelling avenues.

>>96275348 (OP)
Multiple times, some concepts just hit better as male or female depending on the campaign, setting hooks, ect. Just don't make it weird or put on a falsetto voice and its fine. Imo, making a female character isn't just making a male character despite what a lot of people said, especially for historical setting

>>96275348 (OP)
I usually play female characters because I like playing characters who are cute and who rely more on wits than brute strength. I don't do any cringy voice-acting though, because I want to maintain the player/character separation. The character is my pawn in the game, she's not me and should never be confused with me the player. I just like my pawn in the game to be cute if I have that option, alright?

>>96299774
Also:
>Do you think it made the other players feel uncomfortable or awkward?
There's been a couple times where my characters did or said something that made someone else feel uncomfortable or awkward, but it had nothing to do with the character being a girl. Not doing any romance plots unless everyone else is okay with it, and keeping it mild. Nah, if I disturb people it's more through being a little edgy and straying from the geneva suggestions, which again, is why player/character separation is important.

>>96299774
Are you me?

Guys playing girls makes me feel uncomfortable. I'd prefer not to allow it. I could type up some autistic essays about how men in society are constantly pressured to repress their feminine sides and that leads to overcompensation in behaviors like playing women in online games and other spaces, turning a certain girl's cartoon into an internet phenomenon of biblical proportions, and other stuff.

But I hate seeing it in TTRPGs because there's always going to end up being a romantic subplot and it's never not fucking squicky to watch a presumably straight man roleplay as a girl falling in love with another man. The worst part is how they'll lie to themselves about why they're doing it. "oh I just like looking at girl butts in vidya games" "oh I'm just roleplaying a make believe character for unspecified reasons" but the subconscious baggage that's feeding into it is so blatantly obvious it's just hard to be around.

I've only seen one instance of a man playing a woman that's not cringe af and that's Bitsy from Avantris.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TrF-uNuo8xM

>>96275348 (OP)
What is the context of this passage? What is the relevance of the player's gender to the question being asked?

>>96275422
No. Your character isn't you and you aren't your character. Take an improv class some time.

>>96275522
going where?

>>96275638
lol what a fuckin beta

>>96300223
>But I hate seeing it in TTRPGs because there's always going to end up being a romantic subplot and it's never not fucking squicky to watch a presumably straight man roleplay as a girl falling in love with another man.
I basically agree with you but this part isn't exclusively weird when it comes to men playing as women. Romantic subplots are always weird. Men playing men trying to romance women is still weird since it's loke flirting with the dungeon master. Gay and awkward. Simply do not include any romantic subplots of any kind.

>>96300223
Supposing that you're right (you probably are), what makes it ok for the GM to roleplay female NPCs? Is it just because he has to (unless you're playing in Testosteronia: Manworld), or is it quantity? If a player controlled 10 characters and one was female, would that still be weird?

>>96300859
The GM doesn't "roleplay female NPCs", the GM runs the monsters and traps. D&D is a dungeon crawler, not a dating sim.

>>96300264
for me it'd be as awkward if it's a man and a woman or two men. I don't want to sit there watching someone hitting on someone else and the other person pretending to be into that. Even if they are into it, then I'm just stuck watching a couple flirt.

>>96300909
Alright, trollanon, and if one of the monsters happens to be a succubus or a randomly rolled harlot in an urban encounter, is it weird for the GM to "run" them? And if not, why not?

Stop trolling. Final warning.

>>96300223
You've got some kind of weird 'tism or are some sort of closet case yourself. Evident from your words and that you consume critical role shit.

Why is there 'always' going to be a romantic subplot? And why is it any 'squickier' for a man to roleplay as a woman falling in love than it is to roleplay as say- a woman murdering a tribe of indigenous kobolds? Why can you separate the reality from the fiction for one but not the other?

Anon: You are the cringe here. I don't even want to play a chick but the second you say no and give your weirdo explanation I'm pardoning myself from the table regardless.

>>96300236
>this nigga actually trying to 'what system?' a Lodoss OP

>>96300264
Immensely immature and insecure take.
Imagine if Odysseus or Aragorn's players had said "Keep the romance out!"

>>96275828
>Ghim says "I have no home and I have no regrets."
Maybe he was just an experienced player sick of DMs wanting to make stories personal instead of just throwing orcs in a dungeon.

>>96301179
I don't care about whatever dumb game this is, I'm asking why it matters that player is a girl here. Her question doesn't appear to have anything to do with her being female, so why did the DM mention it?

>>96301179
>Imagine if Odysseus or Aragorn's players had said "Keep the romance out!"
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>96301181
There's no maybe to it. It wasn't.
This was everyone involved's first time playing as D&D had just released in Japan that year.
It was a clever way to leave his backstory malleable so it could be set in stone as it they needed it, piecemeal.

>>96301187
That's right after character creation and so the first time Deedlit 'speaks'. Maybe it just set in on the DM then, maybe he was looking at her portrait at the time (one of the players was an artist and drew them all) maybe he was doing a voice for her, I dunno.
What's it matter?

>>96301192
Can you imagine a picture of an apple in your mind?

>>96301219
Because it's completely fucking nonsensical, obviously. Dumb sped.

>>96301179
Odysseus and Aragorn didn't have players. They weren't characters in a game. There was no group of people physically in the same place with each other who had to watch two overweight men pretend to flirt with each other. Games aren't stories and stories aren't games, and there is no reason to expect a particular technique or method that functions in one to function in the other.

>>96275348 (OP)
How different is it from writing a woman? Or even using one in a video game?

>>96275348 (OP)
There's always some meek guy in every RPG group who plays as a girl every time. He's always faintly in denial about it even though everyone can tell he's some kind of queer every time he speaks.
And then, one day, he "comes out" as if literally everyone didn't already know.
Look, play as women. Be gay. Be trans. I don't really care. But this idea that you're a straight guy who exclusively plays as women in video games and TTRPGs, come on... Nobody believes that shit. Just be honest with yourself, holy fuck.

>>96275348 (OP)
I played a female character to make the others feel less unconfortable.
We were playing Monsterhearts in the club. We were a bunch of incels and every fucking idiot picked a boy.
I chose the cheerleader (with her menagerie) so we could have straight heteronormative sex .
Those idiots...

>>96275348 (OP)
Not yet unless you count video games.

>>96299774
Same. I tend to use third person to describe my character's actions regardless of what they are (male, female, robot, etc.), so I always feel like an author writing a story rather than an actor portraying a character.

>>96296731
Uddo Chakku
never used a random foreign word as a character name before?

>>96275348 (OP)
I played a female character in a dungeon world game so I could use the Disney Princess playbook, and it was incredibly fun. That was my one and only female character in 28 years of roleplaying