Have you ever played a character of the opposite sex?

[RedFox]

I play characters of either gender (and some others besides. Verpine are hermaphrodites and droids are neuter. ). I've never really had a problem with it in Star Wars.
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[RedFox]

[Hellcat]

[ZepDek]

Strangly enough I'm told that I can play an effective girl character by my players. Probably because I have so many voices in my head heheh j/k.

[Jen'tara Rhee]

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[Hellcat]

[Error]

I play chicks all the time
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[Krapou]

Replying to the first post :

[Demona]

I have never played with any males who roleplayed females in D6, but in some online rpg's I have played before I had only met ONE male who was able to convince me that he rped a female. And he only rped females. Most males do tend to lay on the girlishness too thick.

To rp a convincing female you have to say one thing and do another...and even say conflicting stuff. Get irritated at small things and not really care about the big things. Well, thats if your playing a human female.

I am a female and I have never played a male yet. Its on my list of things to do. I have played female dwarves in D&d..thats about as manly as I have gotten.

Right now I play a barabel shockboxer so in a way she would probably be a tad manly. I sure don't play her as feminine as her gender deems.

I personally think that the ultimate test of roleplaying is when you can switch genders and convincingly rp. My husband plays a fairly good female. He convinces all the guys though
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[K_Feldspar]

Hmmmm... interesting. I am male. I have played many a prissy angry sorceress in D&D, but have always been male in Star Wars--excluding female npcs when I GM. I don't think I role play a woman any better than I role play a male. They're both people who I'm not. One just happens to be the opposite sex. Granted I don't think any of my group really concentrates too much on gender issues one way or the other.

I've also had other males play females and females play males in my campaigns. Quite successfully I would say. I have a female playing a male human kid in my current campaign, and she does an excellent job.

Now that I give it a little thought maybe it has to do with the kind of female we're used to interacting with. I bet that not many of them played My Little Ponies much as a kid, or if they did it didn't stop them from playing with bugs. Which is NOT to say they aren't feminine or pretty. Just that they aren't stereotypical princess types. Really, maybe I should stop babbling.

[Boomer]

I havn't gotten an opportunity to play females very often. But I was told by a female friend of mine that I do it quite well when I do.

Interestingly I am told by males who play females often that I am horrible at it.

I think a real woman knows how a woman should be played better than any man.

I had a friend who only played femal characters, a polite enough friend who never questioned anyones personality traits in real life or playing style for their characters. Neither stand-offish or sleazy, he just didn't do personalities and made whatever choice he thought was best. He got the habit of playing females from online-RPGs, where he got quickly tired of staring at a man's butt for hours on end. So he just played females, and it stuck with him ever since.
Never questioned how he played it, he only saw me play a female once and thinks I did a fine job... that was D20 Star Wars and it sucked.

That is my 0.02 credits.
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[Tahlorn]

I have played a female character or two. One is a young kid [kind of like Ed from Cowboy Bebop]. Another one was in a different system, which I played as a cold-hearted, ruthless killing b****. It is lots of fun to play, and great for interacting with other characters (everyone in the group knows her as 'the b****').

My normal gaming group consists of three males and two females. The females will play iether gender on a regular basis, and do a fine job of it.

As for the males playing females, I usually don't play mine sleazy or stand-offish at all, and it is rare for the other males in my group to play females, but they don't play it sleazy or slutty or such. The females in our group are more likey to have thier characters be sleazy, or as they put it, use thier "femine wiles". Esaier to use when a female playing a female when the GM is male. My girlfriend is currently not denying this as she reads this over my should.

We once had a game where the two females were playing males, and the two males were playing females. the GM never got used to it, so was worth a good laugh.

~Tahlorn

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