thread: 2005-03-15 : Cross-gender Play
On 2005-03-16, Emily Care wrote:
Tom wrote:
1.) I've never really seen a very convincing portrayal of a woman by a guy at any of the gaming tables I've sat down at.
What a shame. I guess that's probably a common experience, but it still surprises me. With the sole exception of one male player whose female character spent a (somewhat) inordinate amount of time oiling her nipples, I've never witnessed a player do a bad job of portraying a character of an opposite gender.
Might be the games I'm playing (predominately collaborative, depth-of-world oriented and thematic) or the players I've shared time with (socially and politically transgressive types, many of whom fall into artist stereotypes rather than traditional gamer geek ones).
