17-07-2004 05:08									#1
	What's the deal with guys playing female characters in RPG's? Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

If it is truelly roleplay, does that mean they want to be girls? I'm just curious. I'm not exempt, I have played female characters.

any psychologists or wannabe psychologists want to comment?

	17-07-2004 05:11									#2
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1.) The female character possesses abilities they want. Their choice is purely strategic.
2.) They are perverts who want breasts.
3.) They are trying to play all the classes available.

	17-07-2004 05:15									#3
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Well in tribes atleast people rationalized it by saying that female characters were smaller and harder to hit. This was of course false and there were 2 patches where female characters took extra damage from blaster/plasma weapons.

or more likely its the breasts like verto says.

	17-07-2004 05:34									#4
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The only reason Perfect Dark was so popular is because the hero had breasts.

	17-07-2004 05:35									#5
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quote: 1.) The female character possesses abilities they want. Their choice is purely strategic. 2.) They are perverts who want breasts. 3.) They are trying to play all the classes available.

3. b) The game is different with a female, thus making a second run (more) interesting. How about ramping up charisma and seducing your way out of tight spots? (I'm not sure if that's possible in any of the games out there at the moment though.)

	17-07-2004 05:36									#6
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I also did it in Fallout2, but in that game females could do things men couldn't. Such a great game.

But I was playing in KOTOR. kind of pointless. Women can do everything men can do

I guess it's nice to look at the breats. But sometimes I just have Bastila walk around with no clothes. It's kind of funny she addressed the jedi council with no clothes on (except her undies)

	17-07-2004 05:36									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Mr. President The only reason Perfect Dark was so popular is because the hero had breasts.

and tomb raider

	17-07-2004 06:22									#8
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Because there aren't enough girls in fantasy-lands, playing as one confers special status to these people.

I've played as a female in numerous Legend of the Red Dragon games merely because it made my character much more popular... and it allows for more role-playing.

Besides, girls are better than boys

	17-07-2004 06:28									#9
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quote: I've played as a female in numerous Legend of the Red Dragon games merely because it made my character much more popular...

Because people sometimes think you're actually a girl

I know in the Wheel of Time MUD, their are a bunch of female channelers (because male channelers go insane and are automatically hunted by everyone).

	17-07-2004 06:31									#10
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quote: b) The game is different with a female, thus making a second run (more) interesting. How about ramping up charisma and seducing your way out of tight spots? (I'm not sure if that's possible in any of the games out there at the moment though.)

Arcanum does this, I think.
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Actually, some people mistook me for female here on this board in the past, so it doesn't bother me too much

	17-07-2004 06:45									#11
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So guys can project their ideal female into a character they can control.

I mean, how many ugly female characters are out there? Not too many, I imagine.

	17-07-2004 06:59									#12
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I usually play a b*tchy/flirty one pretty much the opposite of myself (though I am somewhat flirty) so I guess for some, it's a psychological release so that they can be something different- at least in my case

	17-07-2004 08:01									#13
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I forgot the other one- the character who "does what I'd really like to do", and being female makes it easier to make the leap into something different, since genderwise she's already different. kind o' like what DC said.

Hey, I had a bunch of female RPG characters. Usually in my case, the males were more powerful, but the females more interesting.

	17-07-2004 08:03									#14
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breasts.

	17-07-2004 09:19									#15
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Yeah, I have to admit the breasts are usually the reason for going for a female character. Except for Fallout and Arcanum. That was story based too since gender actually mattered there. Every other game was just for the breasts I think. Even used Safana's pic for BG since that had the most cleavage...even though it wasn't that much.

	17-07-2004 11:12									#16
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I tried playing a femal character in Fallout, once. I couldnt stand the whine when she (my character), dressed in power armour, got hit by the smallest thing.

	17-07-2004 13:48									#17
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@ topic
Only Diss can come up with topics like this

	17-07-2004 15:57									#18
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There are sometimes slightly different plot lines. Didn't you always want to seduce Carth in KOTOR?

	17-07-2004 16:20									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident If it is truelly roleplay, does that mean they want to be girls?

No, it means their character is a girl.



What is the problem with a man roleplaying as a girl? The whole point of roleplay is that you are becoming someone else.

	17-07-2004 16:35									#20
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Good point. When you play an evil baby eating devil worshipping necromancer it doesn't mean you want to be one. Or does it Diss?

	17-07-2004 17:04									#21
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd What is the problem with a man roleplaying as a girl? The whole point of roleplay is that you are becoming someone else.

Yeah, just look at all the cosplayers out there. On second thought, don't.

	17-07-2004 17:35									#22
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They're ghey.

	17-07-2004 18:39									#23
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[quoteYeah, I have to admit the breasts are usually the reason for going for a female character. Except for Fallout and Arcanum. That was story based too since gender actually mattered there. [/quote]
In arcanum it only made sense to play as a female
And I thought it was amusing to wear a dress that had AC 3

(Idiotically, in my first game I tried to make a man wear the dress just to see if he would wear it... it turned out I had wasted 200 gold or so on it though since the game would let me buy but not equip )

	17-07-2004 21:45									#24
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Why are you people limited to computer RPGs?

Anyway, in Wizardry, there is a class Valkyrie, which is open only to female characters.

	17-07-2004 22:29									#25
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quote: Why are you people limited to computer RPGs?

What are you sitting in front of right now UR?

	17-07-2004 22:35									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Maquiladora They're ghey.

	17-07-2004 23:05									#27
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Not just RPGs. Any games with stats, females are usually better for some ppl.

game designers stereotypically design females with stats like speed,agility,dexterity etc etc while males get mostly power and etc. Or their body is slender with its a game that considers hitzones etc....

I find myself picking females most of the time because theyre just better than males in most stat games.

	17-07-2004 23:46									#28
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ooh, good memories of lara croft crawling in tight spaces...

	17-07-2004 23:51									#29
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I do it for the diversity. It all started when I played fighting games like Mortal Kombat and I noticed I tend to prefer female characters due to their speed advantage. It goes well with my playing style.

In RPGs, I do it for the novelty of it, for something different.

Alto on online RPG games such as MUDs, I do play females I don't deliberately seek cybersex or maintain a 'relationship.' I just find it too werid. I don't even do it when I play male characters either.

	18-07-2004 01:23									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident If it is truelly roleplay, does that mean they want to be girls? I'm just curious. I'm not exempt, I have played female characters. any psychologists or wannabe psychologists want to comment?

I plays girls half the time

my freind plays girls all the time

it is true roleplay something that I am not, although usually I do a poor job of doing a different sex

JM