A debate on OUR characters, and how we relate to them.

[Sinophile]

Know what is really weird? Whenever I play Pen and Paper D&D with this one DM, his NPCs always hit up on me. It makes me kinda uncomfortable.

 

Anyway, if you braved the tsunami of text, I salute you, discuss!

If you can write several paragrahs, couldn't you have typed out "City Of Villains" instead of COV, forcing me to google acronyms? I never played COV, but back in the days of Everquest 1, I used to play a a lot of female characters(I was a teenager back then, and almost always preferred female characters if only for the aesethics). You wouldn't believe how often my elf characters got hit on. Strangely, no one would ever hit up on my female Iksar or my troll.

[DeathWarrior]

Most of the characters I play are male, and I actually made my Oblivion and Fallout 3 characters resemble me. But my New Vegas character is female as you can see in the sig I have.

[Vindekarr]

Heh.

 

My male troll got hit on more(by ladies-his name WAS Casinova McHandsome though, big joke there.) in WoW than either of my Blood Elfs. Both scantily clad, both with fantabulous hair, and yet my ugly as heck troll got all the attention-except from this one girl who hit on my female BE warlock, and eventualy became one of my best friends ever.

 

Men usualy looked on my female characters withdisaproval, to say the least. Frankly I find chauvanists a lot more worthy of contempt than people emotionaly strong, and secure enough to play a diferent gender though.

[ub3rman123]

Heh.

 

My male troll got hit on more(by ladies-his name WAS Casinova McHandsome though, big joke there.) in WoW than either of my Blood Elfs. Both scantily clad, both with fantabulous hair, and yet my ugly as heck troll got all the attention-except from this one girl who hit on my female BE warlock, and eventualy became one of my best friends ever.

 

Men usualy looked on my female characters withdisaproval, to say the least. Frankly I find chauvanists a lot more worthy of contempt than people emotionaly strong, and secure enough to play a diferent gender though.

 

I always wanted to play troll, but went night elf because of the bonus the shadowmeld ability gives to rogues. I never really judge a character by more than stats.

[Karasuman]

Heh.

 

My male troll got hit on more(by ladies-his name WAS Casinova McHandsome though, big joke there.) in WoW than either of my Blood Elfs.

 

That's because Trolls are irresistibly cool.

[Salamander8]

Heh.

 

My male troll got hit on more(by ladies-his name WAS Casinova McHandsome though, big joke there.) in WoW than either of my Blood Elfs.

 

That's because Trolls are irresistibly cool.

Oh yeah. When I still played WoW both my main (discipline-specced priestess) and my tank-specced DK were female trolls. I like the looks, especially if you pick the one face that is noticeably more attractive than the others, and their 'take no ****' attitude makes them a lot of fun to play. I preferred them over female blood elves which are awfully anorexic looking although my paladin is one. Some of the female troll quotes were hilarious and my favorite flirt emote of all time is the one troll woman one:"While enraged and in heat, a female troll can mate over 80 times in one night. Are you prepared?"

 

I always play females when possible, regardless of the 'eye candy' level (although I do like that of course). I even played a female operative in Ravenshield and you only see yourself in that game through the death cam or reflections. I just find them more interesting to play, and barring exceptions like Half-Life and F.E.A.R., I won't even play a game where the only character choice is male.

[TheCalliton]

when i make a character, i just get one going and make em up on the way

but usually my serious characters are male and my goof off characters are female

nothing says goofy like a naked chick with a two story sword slaughtering the imperial city

besides, i feel that men look better in armor than women do

Edited January 2, 2011 by TheCalliton

[Vindekarr]

My goof off characters are a variety-usualy either Dwarfs Orks or Trolls.

 

For me, nothing says goofy than a drunk dwarf charging around Imperial city shouting abuse and picking fistfights!

 

I dont really like skimpy armour even on my female characters.

 

For me, I really like my characters of both genders to be aesthetic, but for me that means having them wear something that suits them. Hair that matches and suits facial features, clothing dyes that matches and sets off eye and hair colour, and an overall style of garb that suit's personality.

 

An outfit should be a full package, if it doesnt match, it wont be half as effective. Shy hair and a bikini doesnt work, A mohawk and a ballgown doesnt work, what you need is to pick colours and outfits and even hair that really suit how that character looks and behaves. Red hair? green dress. Green eyes? orange dress,

[Nizzquizz]

In PP-rpgs I started as real noob, always just playing chars that are alike to how i am or at least would like to be .. but with time i made up my mind and now need to be stopped before creating nymphomanic female dwarf-bardes or other crazy stuff ^^"

 

In PC-rpgs i usually end up being the good-guy, despite NOT being the happy-go-lucky guy in RL. Aside from that, i have very little limits at all: Fe/male, black/white/asian, good/bad/strict/amoral/lawful/chaotic. Mostly end up as white guy through, just for identification.

However, if at all, there are two things which are somewhat limits to me:

1) i don't romance guys. It's - just like in RL btw. - not in any way a morale-decision or homophobic/religious bull****, it's just that males lack in asthetics for me. Same goes if I play as female - I would end up with another fem. before even considering the males at all (maybe exception: Garrus in ME2). Anyway i wouldn't mind playing a gay pre-determinded character as long as the romance is dealt siriously and not in a gay-fanfiction-of-FinalFantasy/HarryPotter-kind of way. Also no problem in befriending gay/bi chars (Zevran for King!).

2) I might blow up cities (FO3), kill my Masters (Kotor2), join forces with demons (BG, NWN, DA) and random-punch/kill people (ME2), but there are a few principles i strictly stand up for, even in a game, especially personal freedom (for better or worse) and revengefull justice - detaining me to join sides with oppressors (Templars in DA, religion in general) and fashists (Cerberus in ME2 or even just Ashley in ME1) or to be any way helpful or forgiving to those who thought small of me and stepped into my way (like, almost all rpgs ever, from Baldurs Gate to NWN to FO:NV).

 

That said, i somewhat play as i live - mostly a liberal guy who strongly opposes any kind of oppression and intolerance, who is yet striken with a somewhat cruel trait now and then. This also reflects in how i value my characters - in a game of 75 hours +, i simply want to identify with my char. If on the other hand, i just make up a char to do some crazy stuff (like PP-chars for one evening or for comic-relief) i don't need to identify and also don't need the char to survive (the nympho-dwarf ended up being impaled by a dragon-bone® ... i guess that says everything about my character-treatment....).