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Shadowrun General => General Discussion => Topic started by: TranKirsaKali on <09-12-10/0059:26>
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Just curious. How many females do we have lurking or posting here? What company am I keeping? Zelda where are you? Hoping to get some of us to sound off and be heard. LOL ::) 8)
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They hear me just fine when I throw destruction down the hall at them. ;D
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I'm a girl out here. Still new, but have a lot of Shadowrun experience and have been enjoying reading the threads around here.
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Well, they are "out there", but not "in here". The group I run with atm consists of me, my best pal and... two girls. Yepp, 50-50 rating.
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I have a couple of females in the group, currently.
Not including my avatar, of course.
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*teasing the men* see that ladies? They can't help themselves the men have to chime in on everything!!!! ROFLMAO :o ;D :P
But it is good to see that people are watching.
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(They're just hoping you'll talk to them... ;))
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i'm female. I also have a 2 other females on my team currently. ive been playin sr4 weekly for about 5 years now
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(They're just hoping you'll talk to them... ;))
Just smile nicely and most of us will talk to you. We like to game to. :) And it is kind of hard to do with out other players.
And see there are a few of us running amok in here with you even. Here's hoping for some more. I know there are more of us out there than are admitting to it.
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Me, me!
I'm sorta hanging around, when I'm not too busy IRL.
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Woo hoo and welcome to you Catadmin.
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The best players I've ever had were female. In fact I've had more Female members in my groups over the years than
men boys. I'm glad to see there are a few on here that aren't intimidated to post. Keep these men boys in line.
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I am not a woman, but I like them a lot.
A.A. Salati
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I will definitely not post as often as Fast Jack or Caszil. But I will be around. You all may get tired of hearing from me eventually.
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Heck my Editor and first SRun GM was Hilary Ayer. Hands down one of the best GMs I've ever played with (Master's in History I think helps a lot).
I think SRun is one of the games that is more welcoming to female players. The only other game I've seen with a higher average female ratio is Call of Cthullu.
Welshman
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My DnD groups have tended to have at least 2 women if not more as well. The reality is there are more of us out there than is realized. I think we just need to realize we can be proud to be gamers and be able to think outside of the box.
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Heck, scariest player I've ever seen was at GenCon '09. My friends and I sat down to play Munchkin Cthulhu and there was a girl that couldn't had been older than 9 years old. Not only did she whip our buts at the game, but she did it with a cute smile and singing songs about Cthulhu and other ... unmentionables. :o
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Geek children are scary sometimes. Goes double for females...
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*waves* I are female. Never play one ever, but I am one. Only one in my group currently since it's just me, Dad, and a couple friends of mine.
And yes. Gamer children are terrifying. I've been playing battletech since I was 6 years old and I whooped everyone's ass at a bloodname tournament (for KERENSKY) when I was 7. My father was my first kill. A requested headshot was my last. In between rounds I was playing with beanie babies and the Thomas The Tank Engine display they had at our local hobby store.
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*waves* I are female. Never play one ever, but I am one. Only one in my group currently since it's just me, Dad, and a couple friends of mine.
And yes. Gamer children are terrifying. I've been playing battletech since I was 6 years old and I whooped everyone's ass at a bloodname tournament (for KERENSKY) when I was 7. My father was my first kill. A requested headshot was my last. In between rounds I was playing with beanie babies and the Thomas The Tank Engine display they had at our local hobby store.
We're drifting from double X chromosomes to tiny chromosomes, but I can't help but add to it. I taught my eldest son the game recently. Four games and I've had my head handed to me four times. I shudder to think what happens when my youngest gets into it, as he's way smarter than my elder.
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Ah the joys of training the new generation.
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My little boy learned Dragon before Mommy......cool thing is he learned it from the Komodo dragon we go and look at in the Seattle Zoo, though now he knows Fantasy dragons as well lol. O and he has learned Mommy as well, which has made Kat's day :)
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Aside from my wife playing, we have two other couples (yeah, 3 couples that game together; REGULARLY!) in our group. One of the guys always runs the game, but the 3 ladies play.
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Very nice.. As I said in another thread, THe couple that games together stays together. DarkLloyd and I have a blast gaming together even though our styles are different.
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I think SRun is one of the games that is more welcoming to female players.
Apart from D&D, Shadowrun is the only other RPG my wife will play. And she's had quite a few options. (Actually, that's not entirely true. She's run Og and Kobolds Ate My Baby in the past and introduced us to Battle Cattle.) Though she keeps threatening to run Project A-ko again.
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So get her on the forums to join the rest of us in causing havoc. :P ;D
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Turns out I'm full of drek, as my wife promptly reminded me the instant I showed her the above. She was also a very sporting Vampire the Masquerade player and was quite supportive of our brief foray into Aeon before it had to be renamed Trinity.
She has no interest in joining another board at this time but her power is such that she can still make me correct myself in a public venue even when she will likely never double-check to see if I have complied.
So while she's not signing up at this time, rest assured she is already causing havoc! :'( ;) ;D
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ROFLAMAO that is great! ;D
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I'm the only guy in my group. And lord help me. Some of the stuff those girls come up with is horrifying. Other times, horrifyingly cute. "Can I headbutt the dragon?"
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That's right up there with "TAZE THAT BEAR! DO IT DO I- that did not work."
*next respawn*
"GO FIST FIGHT THAT BEAR."
And you're either an incredibly lucky man to have a table full of girls... or they'll sync and you'll become crispety dead.
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I don't know how lucky it is. I get blamed for everything that goes wrong. Though I'm not sure how much of that is because I'm the only guy and how much is because I'm the GM. Probably both.
Another scary/amusing question I've gotten:
HER: How much damage can I do with a metahuman body?
ME: I don't know. Why?
HER: Because I want to hit that asshole with his dead friend. That's why.
ME: Okay then. Let me check.
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There's already been discussion of Dad fastball-special-ing me.
Or using our face as a club if he gets too uppity.
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Sweet! My Half-orc barbarians favorite ranged attack is throwing the monk in our D&D game.
@Monky: Wait. Your gaming group is all girls and your the GM? I hope that if what Chaotic Insane says ever happens, you plan on skipping the game that week for a night at the ice cream parlor... ;)
<looks around thread, ducks & runs for cover>
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As long as you invite all of them and offer them all chocolate. Or else they will all get pissed at you. The boys just putting up with ME is bad enough. XD Though apparently I get nasty enough to count as more than one. I just get downright mean... er...
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There's already been discussion of Dad fastball-special-ing me.
Or using our face as a club if he gets too uppity.
Nice. When my group gets too uppity (or fails to pay attention) I usually just threaten to crush their characters with arbitrarily falling satellites or explode them with mysteriously explosive garbage trucks parked in front of their houses.
Sweet! My Half-orc barbarians favorite ranged attack is throwing the monk in our D&D game.
@Monky: Wait. Your gaming group is all girls and your the GM? I hope that if what Chaotic Insane says ever happens, you plan on skipping the game that week for a night at the ice cream parlor... ;)
<looks around thread, ducks & runs for cover>
Lucky for me I can outrun them all, huh?
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Dad just gives us a good whap upside the head with the campaign or whatever rulebook is closest. It works. Usually. Doom just sits there all quiet and creepy like 'till we notice.
I haven't decided which is more intimidating, actually.
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I've threatened to hit them books too. My gf usually just glares at me and threatens to punch me in the testicles.
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And this is why gaming with your girlfriend is usually not the best idea. I mean, it CAN work, but if you're the DM? Noooot so much.
"I'm making you do point buy."
*to the DM's fiancée* "Tell him we're not doing point buy."
"We aren't doing point buy."
"But I want to make you d-"
"And I want to make you sleep on the couch."
"... ok you can just roll."
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She actually likes point buy. Whenever we roll for stuff she usually ends up with nothing over a 7 or something, swears at her dice, then goes off on a ten minute rant about the "gayness" of random chance in gaming.
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That's me. Doom actually overrided my rolls once because they were just that horrible. Difference is, I don't really mind. It's funny.
Or I just say forget it, roll dice, ignore them, and pick a decent stat line myself. I almost always play RP characters of mine who already HAVE defined stats that are balanced so meh. I haven't run into a DM that made me roll for them after I showed it to them.
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Another testament to the awesomeness of my gaming wife who for now must post through me as proxy:
As an anniversary gift she just now presented me with a nice hardcover Seattle 2072. Just to make it easier for me to make their running lives miserable. Now that's love. ;D A thanks to juxtamon for the assist. :)
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Aww, how sweet.
It's becoming a yearly tradition for my gf and I to buy each other sourcebooks and/or dice for birthday and Christmas presents.
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It is good to see that many of you are realizing just how sadistic we women can be. And any male GM willing to run a table full of women I would love to meet. As for you FastJack, just remember that women have long memories. You can run, but you will just die tired! LOL :P
And woo hoo my thread made it to 3 pages, even if the guys have taken over except for me and Insane!
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Yes, but the rabies only lasts for about a week. After that I'm lucky if I can remember why I was so furious at so-and-so. Though I do really feel guilty with as much as I bitch at them about other people >_<;; they don't deserve me shit-talking their friends for the littlest offences in hormonal rages.
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It is good to see that many of you are realizing just how sadistic we women can be. And any male GM willing to run a table full of women I would love to meet. As for you FastJack, just remember that women have long memories. You can run, but you will just die tired! LOL :P
And woo hoo my thread made it to 3 pages, even if the guys have taken over except for me and Insane!
My brother-in-law (that's been trained to be a police sniper) has a t-shirt that says something similar. And, we're not trying to take over. Just trying to improve our Etiquette skill points... ;)
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:D Lord knows mine could use some work. My usual attempt at social graces is throwing a non-lethal grenade at someone.
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It is good to see that many of you are realizing just how sadistic we women can be. And any male GM willing to run a table full of women I would love to meet. As for you FastJack, just remember that women have long memories. You can run, but you will just die tired! LOL :P
And woo hoo my thread made it to 3 pages, even if the guys have taken over except for me and Insane!
My brother-in-law (that's been trained to be a police sniper) has a t-shirt that says something similar. And, we're not trying to take over. Just trying to improve our Etiquette skill points... ;)
ROFL, it is all good. I am attempting to tease you all. That and get more of the women here to chime in. You guys need to hear from us so we can lul you into a sense of security. As for the saying. I am part of a group called the society for creative anachronism. And in that organization I get to be a combat archer with a cross bow and actually shoot people. It is fun. It is even more fun when you realize you get to kill people and then they get up and walk away to come back and try again. ::)
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:D Lord knows mine could use some work. My usual attempt at social graces is throwing a non-lethal grenade at someone.
Sounds like you are playing nice to me. . . .
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Sounds like you are playing nice to me. . . .
Nah. Just trying not too lose too much pay. :D
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You guys need to hear from us so we can lul you into a sense of security.
Careful, gamers are skittish creatures when it comes to the fairer sex. Too much feminine wiles and charms in a roomful of male gamers is like turning on a light in a New York apartment kitchen. A brief second of your eyes meeting the stares of a half-dozen feasting cockroaches, then they skitter for the shadows. ;D
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Sounds like you are playing nice to me. . . .
Nah. Just trying not too lose too much pay. :D
And how is that not playing nice? You are being all gentle and stuff. Sounds like when Kali just drops a stun ball on everyone and then goes in to loot and get the pay data. I guess you could leave a sorry for your headache doc wagon will be here in 10 minutes card for them or something. I guess that would be good etiquette.
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Careful, gamers are skittish creatures when it comes to the fairer sex. Too much feminine wiles and charms in a roomful of male gamers is like turning on a light in a New York apartment kitchen. A brief second of your eyes meeting the stares of a half-dozen feasting cockroaches, then they skitter for the shadows. Grin
You forgot about how we stammer and sweat nervously when cornered.
And how is that not playing nice? You are being all gentle and stuff. Sounds like when Kali just drops a stun ball on everyone and then goes in to loot and get the pay data. I guess you could leave a sorry for your headache doc wagon will be here in 10 minutes card for them or something. I guess that would be good etiquette.
Okay, so I'm playing nice. I like to leave the actual talking to the Face. That's her job.
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You guys need to hear from us so we can lul you into a sense of security.
Careful, gamers are skittish creatures when it comes to the fairer sex. Too much feminine wiles and charms in a roomful of male gamers is like turning on a light in a New York apartment kitchen. A brief second of your eyes meeting the stares of a half-dozen feasting cockroaches, then they skitter for the shadows. ;D
Ah but FastJack, that means the women doing the wiling is doing it all wrong. If she does it right the guys don't even know it is happening. I think my favorite moment was at Gen Con last year. I was in the scramble in costume for Kali. Long black hair wig, black basically leather outfit and nice Indian accents. After the live action portion I sat back down at my table with our team. Looked at them and asked if they minded if I took the wig off. It was hot in the room with it on. They said go for it so I did. And from across the room there came a shocked cry of "she's blond???"
At which point our whole table lost it.
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You guys need to hear from us so we can lul you into a sense of security.
Careful, gamers are skittish creatures when it comes to the fairer sex. Too much feminine wiles and charms in a roomful of male gamers is like turning on a light in a New York apartment kitchen. A brief second of your eyes meeting the stares of a half-dozen feasting cockroaches, then they skitter for the shadows. ;D
Ah but FastJack, that means the women doing the wiling is doing it all wrong. If she does it right the guys don't even know it is happening. I think my favorite moment was at Gen Con last year. I was in the scramble in costume for Kali. Long black hair wig, black basically leather outfit and nice Indian accents. After the live action portion I sat back down at my table with our team. Looked at them and asked if they minded if I took the wig off. It was hot in the room with it on. They said go for it so I did. And from across the room there came a shocked cry of "she's blond???"
At which point our whole table lost it.
Never underestimate a blond... My mom's blond and she breaks many a stereotypes, including the one that people over 60 don't know jack about computers. I *wish* I had her processors...
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You guys need to hear from us so we can lul you into a sense of security.
Careful, gamers are skittish creatures when it comes to the fairer sex. Too much feminine wiles and charms in a roomful of male gamers is like turning on a light in a New York apartment kitchen. A brief second of your eyes meeting the stares of a half-dozen feasting cockroaches, then they skitter for the shadows. ;D
Understatement. Of. The. Century. -_-;;
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You guys need to hear from us so we can lul you into a sense of security.
Careful, gamers are skittish creatures when it comes to the fairer sex. Too much feminine wiles and charms in a roomful of male gamers is like turning on a light in a New York apartment kitchen. A brief second of your eyes meeting the stares of a half-dozen feasting cockroaches, then they skitter for the shadows. ;D
Understatement. Of. The. Century. -_-;;
Just remember ChooticInsaine, you have great powers as a gamer chick, and with Great powers comes the ability to rule them all!! oh oh oh wait that was supposed to read great responcibility! ::)
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You guys need to hear from us so we can lul you into a sense of security.
Careful, gamers are skittish creatures when it comes to the fairer sex. Too much feminine wiles and charms in a roomful of male gamers is like turning on a light in a New York apartment kitchen. A brief second of your eyes meeting the stares of a half-dozen feasting cockroaches, then they skitter for the shadows. ;D
Ah but FastJack, that means the women doing the wiling is doing it all wrong. If she does it right the guys don't even know it is happening. I think my favorite moment was at Gen Con last year. I was in the scramble in costume for Kali. Long black hair wig, black basically leather outfit and nice Indian accents. After the live action portion I sat back down at my table with our team. Looked at them and asked if they minded if I took the wig off. It was hot in the room with it on. They said go for it so I did. And from across the room there came a shocked cry of "she's blond???"
At which point our whole table lost it.
Never underestimate a blond... My mom's blond and she breaks many a stereotypes, including the one that people over 60 don't know jack about computers. I *wish* I had her processors...
I was teaching in a middle school classroom one day when one of the girls called her brunette friend so blond. I kinda just gave her a look, and she replied to me, Blond isn't a hair color any more it is a state of mind. . . .
ROFL
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That's actually pretty true. I know more people that aren't blond but act the stereotype... ;)
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;D Yeppers unfortunately. But it is what it is and so it will continue to be. LOL
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It's still better than being a soulless ginger. ;D
*runs*
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lol Dead Monkey, be careful where you are slinging stuff!
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My former SR group consisted of 2 femmes (one the GM) and 3-4 guys (including me). The femme player's character was a teenage girl Bat shaman who came across as a wannabe vampire. underneath the dye job she was very much a Blonde.
Which made her semi-continuous shots at my character for being blonde somewhat weird . . . but hey, teenage Blonde goth with rampaging hormones and the whole "i'm omniscient, omnipotent and immortal" made her usually fun to bounce off.
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Y'know, I just realized that four of the last six PC's I've ran in various games have been female (including Mercedes over in Road to Redmond). Does this mean I'm more in touch with my feminine side?
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Not especially. I've noticed many male players wanting to play female PC's for the image their mind generates, and possibly some in game bonuses (women tend to have a pronounced effect on males). Very, very few actually play to a more female mindset (and yes, there is a difference).
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Heh... never got any in game bonuses*, but it was definitely more of how I viewed the character. One of my favorites was for a Forgotten Realms game. I started off with the idea of a Samurai from Kara-tur. To make it so the PC was in Baldur's Gate, I had to come up with the backstory of why an imperial Samurai would have traveled the distance. That turned into a story that the emperor had sent his eight best samurai on a quest for a stolen artifact (sent one in each of the cardinal and ordinal points of the compass). That then became the backstory of how an seventeen-year-old would have been one of the best samurai in the empire; which turned into a prodigy child (and this is where the female *DING* idea hit) that had been recruited from her village for her exceptional skill and wound up pushing herself hard to repay the honor of her being chosen. The "ironic" part of the story is that her attitude was very much like Rukia Kuchiki of Bleach, but I hadn't even seen the anime until years after the game.
*In fact, it wasn't until the second game that I realized I was playing a Asian teenage girl in an RPG and the DM was a BIG fan of hentai -- and he introduced my nemesis as a ronin samurai that was constantly flirting with me. :o
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My fiance is an avid Runner-she is the crazy one who constantly complains that we need to play more...
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I play about 50/50 both genders.
Most of the time my characters originate from a sketch or drawing I'm noodling with, so they tend to get their gender established that way.
-karma
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Y'know, I just realized that four of the last six PC's I've ran in various games have been female (including Mercedes over in Road to Redmond). Does this mean I'm more in touch with my feminine side?
80-90% of my characters in any setting ever are male. I hate playing/writing women. I don't know why. And even then, one of my female characters is still incredibly masculine. XD
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I normally do not like playing with a guy trying to play a female character. Either they say she is female and keep playing like a guy, or they play them as what ever their stereotype of choice is. And I have never seen a man play a woman well. But those are just my experiences. As for women playing male characters. I have never personally seen that done. So I couldn't comment on it. I personally prefer for people to stay with their own sex. But that is because my poor brain has a really hard time looking at a guy and calling them a her and vice versa.
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Meh... I usually just get into the character's head and play them that way. The gender of the character just usually doesn't factor in that much. I know I don't use stereotypes (or I hope I don't), but I also don't try to 'act' like a girl either... Then again, when I'm playing a guy, I don't act like a guy either.
Mostly, it comes down to how I picture the character and how they'd react to certain situations. When developing a character, I establish a "Logic Path" for that character and sometimes the gender affects that, sometimes it doesn't. I'm really just in it to tell their version of the story. *shrug*
My groups also didn't harp too much on the calling me "her" while playing, unless it was in character. And I guess I played her well enough that slip-ups like that were rare.
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Sounds like you are just you when you play no matter what gender. And that is a good thing.
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Sounds like you are just you when you play no matter what gender. And that is a good thing.
Yay me! ;D Anyway, back to the original topic. Which means I'm off to a different topic!
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I am still hoping my friend Zelda will show up in here at some point.
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ZELDA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUxnF48RKVU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUxnF48RKVU)
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Groan
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For my current Missions character: I'm a guy, playing a girl, who is pretending to be a guy, and sometimes pretends to be a different girl, and who some folks think is a robot. The character has a magic bus.
Things occasionally get confusing.
-karma
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*stops hand in mid action* Dang it! My first response was to Gibs you for that one Karma. ::) ;D
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For my current Missions character: I'm a guy, playing a girl, who is pretending to be a guy, and sometimes pretends to be a different girl, and who some folks think is a robot. The character has a magic bus.
Things occasionally get confusing.
-karma
Does her magic bus take her on tours of the solar system or the human anatomy...you know... when Arnold gets sick?
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She better have a fake sin by the last name of Frizzle. XD
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Yay! Someone gets my lame jokes!
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*stops hand in mid action* Dang it! My first response was to Gibs you for that one Karma. ::) ;D
Why'd you stop???
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Granfalloons.
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*stops hand in mid action* Dang it! My first response was to Gibs you for that one Karma. ::) ;D
Why'd you stop???
Don't know him well enough to know how he would react yet. Now if it had been you on the other hand. The hand would not have stopped! :P
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I'll give you a hint about how silly and/or easygoing I am.
The character in question is a pixie. With a pink mohawk.
-karma
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*stops hand in mid action* Dang it! My first response was to Gibs you for that one Karma. ::) ;D
Why'd you stop???
Don't know him well enough to know how he would react yet. Now if it had been you on the other hand. The hand would not have stopped! :P
Awww... I <3 U too! :D
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I'll give you a hint about how silly and/or easygoing I am.
The character in question is a pixie. With a pink mohawk.
-karma
See now I think you are just asking to be Gibbsed. . . . Keep it up and I will oblige you! :P
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*stops hand in mid action* Dang it! My first response was to Gibs you for that one Karma. ::) ;D
Why'd you stop???
Don't know him well enough to know how he would react yet. Now if it had been you on the other hand. The hand would not have stopped! :P
Awww... I <3 U too! :D
:P
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Man, there are some nasty stereotypes flying around in this thread ::)
/E: oops, I didnt see the thread already is a month old. Sorry for the accidental necromancy.
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It is all good. I like the thread being revived. What stereotypes are you seeing? I haven't been digging myself.