Males playing female Toons?

[LuckyLuke2]

So you guys playing females can you give me good reasons of why you play a female toon?

My mum used to dress me up in all those fancy little dresses ... and now ... the digital world has opened up some major possibilities !!!

So basically there is no good reason, I just create the toon that I have in mind ...

[Cauthey]

Now I never said anything about Females playing male characters as harrassment is a very good reason for why they would, and for some reason I dont care if females play males <shrug>.

What is the reason? Why exercise a double standard? It would seem that if males playing female toons is distasteful or unacceptable, then females playing make toons would also be the same.

Even if I would do an assessment of you I am sure we would have to agree to disagree as you put it, so not even going to waste my time.

Aww, poo. I really was curious to know what you had come up with about me!

[Razcar]

Reread my post you will find my reasons for playing a male character, or maybe I just hurt your feelings so you have to insult me by calling me gay?

Lol, how the hell could that be an "insult"?

-1 because this tired old trolling topic is as dead as I wish bigotry was.

[bowiehero]

Really beating a dead horse here but either I seem to be noticing it more now or there is a influx of it then used to be but does anyone notice all the males playing male characters?

Is it a control issue? Might be just coincidence but I find most of these guys playing males are a bit pushy and rude at times.

Or maybe I just put to much thought behind a character as imo its a digital imprint of yourself in a way, since you can tell alot about a person due to his playstyle and what kind of character they play.

So you guys playing males can you give me good reasons of why you play a male toon?

**Do you see now how ridiculous and arbitrary you are re: Gender Issues, OP?

[sweez]

since you can tell alot about a person due to his playstyle and what kind of character they play.

Can you tell "a lot" about a person based on their playstyle and type of toon? Maybe, but probably not.

Can you tell "anything" about a person based on their toon's gender? Not really.

[Ratnix]

I generally don't run female characters unless I don't have a choice.

In games such as Diablo 2 where you have a class that is female only, it's not really an option.

Or in Demon's Souls where the female characters get special equipment I played one just to be able to use that equipment.

I have rolled up females in some Mud's but those characters were just storage characters and not something that I actually played as an adventurer.

I don't have a problem with it either way. I don't really look at the characters. I don't do interpersonal RP communications with other players so it really makes no difference to me. Getting instructions on what to do in quests and whatnot is one thing but I don't do the in-character RP stuff with others so it really doesn't matter if I am hearing it from a guy or gal.

[IronClan]

The problem is these rude/pushy people playing male or female characters, are rude and pushy people

[Lorz]

Reread my post you will find my reasons for playing a male character, or maybe I just hurt your feelings so you have to insult me by calling me gay?

I called you no such thing.
I suggest you read what i wrote and not WHAT YOU THINK I WROTE.

And yes i am reporting you for saying such inconsiderate things.

:P

[Legohaiden]

I wish this game had sweet skimpy outfits and bunny ears like i have for my fem toon back when i used to play WoW.

Id love to run around town wearing basically Frilly underwear with bunny ears and /kiss anyone that walked by.


why?


it amused me. isnt that what the game is all about? MY amusment? its what i thought i paid for....

(Edit: My amusment within the games set rules and policies)

[EricCanuck]

I don't claim to know the exact statistics , but my guess is that at least 80% of the people playing this game are male . The characters I see seem to be about 50/50 between male and female . That tells me that there are a lot of guys playing female characters . There are probably overweight people playing skinny characters . There are probably short people playing big hulking brutes . There are probably dark skinned people playing light skinned characters and vice versa . Some people like to create a character that looks and acts and interacts with others as close to they are in real life . Some people like to do the opposite . Remember what RPG means . It's a ROLE playing game . I've played the pen and paper version of this game (loooong ago) and played some characters like me and some totally different . Right now I'm playing a male elf ranger , which from the previous posts is the worst choice ever . So i'll likely play a female half-orc or dwarf when I can , just to be different . My character isn't me . If you assume that anyone you interact with here looks or acts anything like they do in real life then you're in the wrong place .

[AyumiAmakusa]

Some people like to create a character that looks and acts and interacts with others as close to they are in real life . Some people like to do the opposite . Remember what RPG means . It's a ROLE playing game .

We should post this as a banner in the forums so no one will keep asking this question.

[IronClan]

I called you no such thing.
I suggest you read what i wrote and not WHAT YOU THINK I WROTE.

And yes i am reporting you for saying such inconsiderate things.

:P

Uh well... I read the same implication in your words that he apparently did... so yeah; yah might want to work on that.

[Jakarr]

Oo -2 rep for this thread, keep em coming I guess. I posted this from just a interested view and it would seem I offended alot of people, silly me thinking we could keep this all civilized. Guess internet thugs will be internet thugs

Your OP said you noticed a corrolation with men who play female characters as pushy and rude and suggested they have control issues. I didn't name call any more than you did, I just speculated based on experience, as you did. So if I was name calling, so were you in the OP.

Wasn't talking about you with the name calling

[Skiathea]

Holy **** this thread has a lot of posts in it. No way am I reading them all..

I'm new to DDO, and this is my first forum post. I've been a "mediumcore" gamer since I was a kid (I'm 28 now).

I'm a guy, but if I have the option, I always make a female game character in any game...my wife calls them my ho's. I never have come up with a good reason why, but then again, I don't really have to justify it to anyone...except maybe my wife. I don't think I really know why, and I don't think I really care...maybe I have issues or something. I guess I just prefer the pretty to the harsh?

My toon is Lynnessa of Cannith. I had another, but I scrapped it. By the way, my character doesn't show up properly on my profile, dunno why...and I thought I made up the name "Lynnessa" but I guess it's actually a real name...go figure.

[Kirachan]

As far as I noticed in all MMOs I played, female characters are all about good looks, slim and young and immaculate, whereas male characters mostly have a gritty, battle scared, badass look going.

Some like it, others don't and rather have a cute female than having to run around with a scared, hulk-like dude with bad hair.

That's the main reason I as a female have mostly female characters. It's really quite difficult to build young- and good-looking male characters. They all end up with that veteran soldier image.

[mephistos2]

What is this... "The Crying Game"? Don't be such a pinhead .

[cdbd3rd]

Really beating a dead horse here ...

Yup.
Just as all the similar threads on this topic have before - and most never ended well.

...So you guys playing females can you give me good reasons of why you play a female toon?

Yup. Cuz we want to.

Nuff said.



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edit:

Just skimmed the previous page and did have to poke fun at this sweet lil tid-bit:

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Or in Demon's Souls where the female characters get special equipment I played one just to be able to use that equipment.....

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[NaturalHazard]

I don't claim to know the exact statistics , but my guess is that at least 80% of the people playing this game are male . The characters I see seem to be about 50/50 between male and female . That tells me that there are a lot of guys playing female characters . There are probably overweight people playing skinny characters . There are probably short people playing big hulking brutes . There are probably dark skinned people playing light skinned characters and vice versa . Some people like to create a character that looks and acts and interacts with others as close to they are in real life . Some people like to do the opposite . Remember what RPG means . It's a ROLE playing game . I've played the pen and paper version of this game (loooong ago) and played some characters like me and some totally different . Right now I'm playing a male elf ranger , which from the previous posts is the worst choice ever . So i'll likely play a female half-orc or dwarf when I can , just to be different . My character isn't me . If you assume that anyone you interact with here looks or acts anything like they do in real life then you're in the wrong place .

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[TigrisMorte]

boobs!

[CrescentCalling_5]

... I have a simple question.. Why is this relevant?

if we ever discuss something relevant on these forums, I'll stab myself, hang myself, then with the last scrap of my life drag myself to a cliff and jump.