Do you think it's wierd for a guy to use a girl character?

[Sketch]

My main character is a HUcaseal and obviously i'm a guy. Do you think that's wierd?

[eRUPT]

In some online games its wierd, In pso its pretty normal, You should usually bet 99% of the girls you see on PSO are guys. Alot of them are simple playing the girl for the class benefits, some for cuteness, and a bit of people do enjoy roleplaying a girl. This is after all a role playing game still somewhat so role playing a character is quite enjoyable to some people.

[DirewolfX]

I for one play girl characters on PSO... partially for class benefits (FOnewearls are just badass) and partially cause if I'm going to be staring at a bunch of pixels for hours on end, I'd rather they be cute pixels.

Roleplaying is roleplaying, though. And it's perfectly acceptable, IMO, to play girl characters even in more character-interaction driven RPGs, such as MUDs or pen-and-paper RPGs. As long as you're not doing it for some twisted and perverse reason (in which case, I still don't really care, but it IS twisted and perverse by definition).

[Robantifast]

I completely agree with eRUPT...

HUcaseals are great characters. I'm a guy and I've played two of them so far. Haha I don't have them anymore tho, they were on my friends GCs...I played a FOmarl on the DC and am planning on making a RAmarl on the GC. I personally enjoy playing either gender simply based on which one looks cooler and which one most fits my playing style. *shrugs* After all, coolness in looks has to play some role doesn't it?

My 3 cents there. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[Sapphire87]

It's only wierd if you pretend to be a girl in real life when you're not. Although it is kind of funny to see in a PSO lobby how quickly a swarm of horny 12-year-old boys congregate to female characters when they claim that they're a real girl.

[Nawms]

Hey, I had one female character and I just told everyone I was a man. Nevertheless, people still thought I was a girl and after level 26 I deleted her.

[Abductor]

Listen anyone who has played Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Metroid or a million other games has played as a female character. I think everybody knows that. And there's nothing wrong with enjoying it a little or enjoying it a lot hehe.

[gravitypenguin]

I figure its okay to play a female character, especialy in games like PSO with the huge stat differences and Diablo II with classes having locked genders.

Now if you pretend to be the opposite gender that can get real anoying, but aside from that its cool I guess.

[chaodragonb]

Hunewearls rock! They're so powerful! Even though I'm a male, I love them. Besides, who can live without techniques?


In your face, androids!!!

[DangerBoy]

Besides, who can live without techniques?
In your face, androids!!!


lol

In PSO, I don't see a problem with it. I don't see a problem wiith it outside PSO, as a matter of fact; I used to RP female characters because I kinda liked the idea of being viewed as weak and proving people wrong (but that meant my chicks were a little butch since I'm still a guy after all). But back to PSO...

I don't see a problem with it in PSO especially because the model comes with the character.

[zebalba]

all my characters are female and im a guy irl. i like they way they look and their benefits too are awesome!!

[Barubary6]

I'm not sure why I always use a female character. I feel weird using a male character online. Very strange, since I'm a guy...

-- Barubary

[Spy]

I'm really a girl http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

[VulpesMundi]

There's nothing wrong with it. This is an (action) role playing game and you're supposed to act the role of a character. Back in the days of Shakespeare's Globe Theater all the women were played by men. Not really anything different here. The gate just swings both ways.

And just so you know, I'm a guy and I'd say about 75% of my total characters spanning from ver.1, 2, and E1&2 were/are female. The female characters are far more interesting than the males, imo.

[CajunSamurai]

Hmm... I think that about half of my PSO characters are female, actually... Yeah, 3 of my 6 "main" characters have been female, and I just made a FOnewearl the other day.
Why do I, who is most DEFINITELY a guy, play as female characters? First off: Unlike a lot of other customizable online RPG's, I can only get certain classes by playing as a chick. On PSOv1, I desperately wanted to begin as a male FO, but after a minute or two of discovering that the only human FO was the FOmarl, I attempted to create a FOnewm... and erased that fruitatious sucker within seconds. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif
After making a RAmar and a HUcast, I decided to try out one of the ever-so-cute FOnewearls, and she slowly became one of my very favorite characters. Insanely high TP and arguably the most powerful magic user around, there is no class quite like the FOnewearl... Whereas in, say, Neverwinter Nights, you can make any class you'd like in any gender, so I'd have no reason for a gender bender there.
I've since made a RAmarl and HUcaseal on Episode 1&2, and I love 'em both.

So for me, it's all about the unique classes. I want to eventually play all of them as extensively as possible, no matter what gender they are.

And hey, it's just more FUN to play dress-up with a RAmarl than with a RAmar. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[Toyzferall]

I dunno, I did play all guy characters before, but now I'm 50-50. I have a HUcast, HUmar, FOmarl, and HUcaseal. I only mainly play my HUcast and FOmarl, though. It's for the benefits, I say. Honestly, if I could have the support spell boosts of a FOmarl, and be a guy, I would. Cuz' I like playing nice healy-healy helpful white mage-type-deal characters. And it's even more fun to do that if yer a guy. Cuz' it's kinda' oxymoronic. Most people stereotype the frail healer as a female. Of course, on the more manly side of things, I really enjoy my HUcast. Pertially because of the stats, and also partially because it gives me a chance to feel large and in-charge. I'm a guy IRL, but I'm pretty short... So the HUcast gives me my tall-fix. I RP online. even in non-RP games. It's not that hard, considering that since this ISN'T a fantasy medieval RPG, acting like yourself is potentially RPing. My HUcast acts like a more oxymoronic, stupid version of me, and to avoid horny 12-year-olds, my FOmarl is basically a nun. I don't mind if you play the opposite gender, if it's for stats. If you have a choice, though, I'd preferr if people play their own gender, but... *Shrugs* Whatever creams yer twinkie. Just as long as you don't RP the opposite gender AND get... Like THAT. RPing the opposite gender is okay, as long as you don't get involved. Even still, though, who am I to say what's right and wrong?

[Sedyne]

TAKES A REAL MAN TO DRESS UP AS A GIRL ^_^ http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif LOL

[Sketch]

Wow...I didn't think my post would get this many replies.

[eRUPT]

On 2002-12-21 20:18, Force-Elite wrote:
Wow...I didn't think my post would get this many replies.



Its was a good general pso topic to bring up, and everyone in this thread has REALLY good opinions on the subject, and I agree with all of you.

heh my first eRUPT in pso was none other then a hunewearl =)

[Cloak]

Yeah, I think it's weird. I dun really see why a guy would want to mainly use a female char, or vice versa, but that's me. Doesn't really bother me, just kinda weird. Makes you wonder about the person controlling the character.. (j/k)

For me, I use all female characters except a FOnewm. I remade in GC him from V2, and only made him in V2 because of his fast casting and I had one of each force. But I picked him over FOnewearl and FOmarl this version because of his barehanded casting, and Gi/Ra tech advantage. Guess you could call me a hypocrite, but lookin' at the newm, he's not the most manly character, I could see if he was a HUcast @_@;. Plus, I get to molest(alt + f2 in DC) random guy chars in lobbies, since they had fun doing it to my HUne. XO" (too bad no KB for this yet, tho...)

[Mazarin]

The male character designs were geigh IMHO. I really wanted to play a Force, but I couldn't take the FOnewm seriously w/ a fruity outfit like that. (Of course, I'm talking about DC V1+2)

Mitclax was my most used character by far. Once the XBox version comes out, I'm going to be using a HUcast. I like the accuracy, and I wanna play as a droid http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

But my only characters that were male were Colitis and Kanchi(both rangers) But chances are, I'll finally use my real handle for Mazarin, the FOmar http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[pixelate]

I don't really feel the need to project the whole macho thing onto my characters. I don't do what most guys do and make their female characters the next best things to street walkers. Plus, two new characters are female, so they seemed fun to play.

[LollipopLolita]

homophobia and machissmo. oooo

[CorneliusPower]

On 2002-12-21 13:41, DirewolfX wrote:
I for one play girl characters on PSO... partially for class benefits (FOnewearls are just badass) and partially cause if I'm going to be staring at a bunch of pixels for hours on end, I'd rather they be cute pixels.

Roleplaying is roleplaying, though. And it's perfectly acceptable, IMO, to play girl characters even in more character-interaction driven RPGs, such as MUDs or pen-and-paper RPGs. As long as you're not doing it for some twisted and perverse reason (in which case, I still don't really care, but it IS twisted and perverse by definition).

Excellent point, as i agree, if your gonna play a character and countless hours why not make it EZ on the eyes. I've played a FOmarl and a HUcaseal before on the DC, and now on the Gamecube, i have a lvl 89 RAmarl, a lvl 112 HUmar and a lvl 89 FOnewearl, and i have to say out of the bunch the FOnewearl OWNZ! This FO i created wreaks havoc and is a JOY as well as a pleasure to take side with REASONABLE players to support like HUnters and RAngers. The verdict FOR ME, as an opinion from day 1 on DC, taking some time off every now and then, I prefer to play as a FO, above any class. So far my FOnewearl, i love her! My 2 cents, peace!

[MetalGriever]

Back in v1/v2, I played mainly as a HUcast. But I also had a FOmarl and a RAcaseal. Like many others, I play them for class benefits. Back in v2, RAcaseals had the highest evasion out of everyone, and were practically untouchable at max EVP with the right armor and shield.

[SlickRick]

I dont know why every one says that the Fonewman is gay looking. He is the only character that you can make look like a true pimp. Come on flashy red suit, afro thunda and a cane on top of all of it. I think that they should just change it to FOpimp.

[SaitoH]

On 2002-12-21 12:59, Force-Elite wrote:
My main character is a HUcaseal and obviously i'm a guy. Do you think that's wierd?



Yes, it is weird!

>_>

<_<

=_=;;

[Maverynthia]

The only time I disagree with guys playing as girls is when they make the character out to be a smut kitten...it pisses me off....

I play guys mostly because the last chik character I played, I was swarmed with perverts...Sorry I came to play the game no be swarmed by immature kids..though I might make a new one just to get them temp banned to perm banned for harrasment..*teehee* "I said shut up!!"

My friend Jacob plays chiks because he thinks their cute...same reason I play dudes..if I'm going to spend 50 hours staring at something..better be cute... So as long as your not making sexual gestures with said female character..I'm cool

[Elusive_Llama]

The way I see it, as far as PSO goes, I'm playing a character, not roleplaying. There is a difference between choosing a female character and *being* a female character. That said, I play female characters exclusively in all online games such as this, except when it comes to stuff like Day of Defeat of course http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

'sides...Hunewearls are the sexiest things alive on Pioneer 2. Why not have one running in front of you for 500hrs+?

[RaGuS]

On 2002-12-22 00:52, pixelate wrote:
I don't really feel the need to project the whole macho thing onto my characters. I don't do what most guys do and make their female characters the next best things to street walkers. Plus, two new characters are female, so they seemed fun to play.



You are a chick, right?

[Blenjar]

When you make a game, tell to the people your playing with that your a guy so they won't act all gay on you.

[pixelate]

On 2002-12-22 10:51, RaGuS wrote:

On 2002-12-22 00:52, pixelate wrote:
I don't really feel the need to project the whole macho thing onto my characters. I don't do what most guys do and make their female characters the next best things to street walkers. Plus, two new characters are female, so they seemed fun to play.



You are a chick, right?



Nope. Shot down!

[CrashCat]

I've got two guys and two girls on my card, but it was just because those were the classes I wanted to play. I can't get over the HUcaseal's butt-kicking animations and also can't get enough of the HUcast so I have both of them, and then I picked a FOmarl to play support and a RAcast for the insane HP. I don't really give a rappy what gender character you pick given that you have to pick a certain gender to get certain stats and abilities, but to each his own.

[Ina]

Does it matters at all? as Crashcat-san said, he/she use the character he/she wants, thats all u have to do.... afterall, its u that represent urself, not ur character...... if u dun want ppl mistaken u aas a girl online, then tell them, if they called u a perv/freak/etc, tell them they have to play pso more, there r lots of chick-guy/guy-chick in game

[CajunSamurai]

I dont know why every one says that the Fonewman is gay looking. He is the only character that you can make look like a true pimp. Come on flashy red suit, afro thunda and a cane on top of all of it.I prefer his purple suit myself. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif The afro: The smartest thing Sonic Team ever did for PSO character designing.
But man, the amount of really, REALLY lame looking FOnewms (which includes, but is not limited to, fruitcake designs) easily overpowers the amount of pimp-newms. It's sad... really sad. Pimpin' ain't easy.

[Tenko]

I see no problem with it. My favorite class is the Hunewearl; I see it as giving up a small amount of hunter ability that the other hunters have, for a *lot* of force ability. (Though I am kind of pissed about them revoking Reverser from me in the Gamecube version.)

Plus, what several other people said, as long as you're going to be staring at this character for hours on end, it may as well be eye candy...

[Elusive_Llama]

To see why Hunnys are my fave, let's go through a process of elimination.

HUcast, HUmar, HUcaseal, HUnewearl

1. Hucasts and Hucaseals don't get techniques. Techniques are very, very important. Resta is my number one spell and I find that I can't do without it.

HUcast, HUmar, HUcaseal, HUnewearl

2. Of the remaining HUs with techniques, HUnewearls get shifta/deband whereas HUmars don't. HUnewearls get level 20 techniques, as opposed to level 15 for HUmars. Jellen and Deband can make even a Hidelt`s punch feel like lovetaps, therefore a higher level Jellen and Deband are very useful.

My level 20 Shifta adds an extra 50 - 60dmg; combined with a high level Zalure, I can do an extra 80 - 100dmg. HUnewearls also have the highest MST and the highest TP max - which is very useful to spam Resta while an Ultimate Baranz is spamming missiles at you as Gilchichs swarm you under simultaneously. HUnewearls ALSO have the skimpiest, most stylish costumes and the hottest bods.

HUnewearl, the other hunter classes

http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[Jae]

HUnewearl
Hunter / Newman / Female
Has very strong techniques as well as being adept at close-range combat. Has the Lowest HP of the Hunter Class.


Sonic Team should have added the following line:
"Also gets hit on the most by adolescent boys who play HUmars."

Bah. I don't know why anybody bothers to hit on the 'girls' when like 97% of PSO community are guys.

As for the original question, no I don't think it's weird to play female characters. 3/4 of my characters are female. I picked them mostly for their stats and abilities, but I also thought the male HU and RA looked too generic.

[Javier_Von_Fenrir]

Even though I really shouldn't care, it gets on my nervs sometimes when I find out that the Hunewearl in the party is a guy. Most of the time I can tell, I spend alot of time with women and get along with them much more then I do with men; so I know how women act and react to my actions. Still, like I said before, I really don't care but it gets on my nerves. I enjoy flirting and playing with women online and IRL.

[Jae]

On 2002-12-23 09:42, Javier_Von_Fenrir wrote:
Even though I really shouldn't care, it gets on my nervs sometimes when I find out that the Hunewearl in the party is a guy. Most of the time I can tell, I spend alot of time with women and get along with them much more then I do with men; so I know how women act and react to my actions. Still, like I said before, I really don't care but it gets on my nerves. I enjoy flirting and playing with women online and IRL.



1) Obvoiusly you do care because you're annoyed by males playing HUnewearls.

2) You must spend a lot of time being annoyed since HUnewearls are so common on PSO. Read these boards and look at how many GUYS play HUnewearls. Yep. I'm willing to wager that 9 out of 10 HUnewearls on PSO are actually guys.

3) Umm... you can actually TELL what gender a person really is by their 'typing' in an online video game? No. You flirt with me and I'll tell you to take a cold shower.

This post isn't intended as a flame. It's just cold reality.

[Elusive_Llama]

PSO is not a dating game.

[2Xtreme]

I have a female character (see sig) and it doesn't bug me...

It's funny though. In the Dreamcast version, I couldn't play female characters. I think it was because I was going through a tough time in my life (medical issues) and I was't as self-confident. I always used to feel ... weird when playing a female character. How do I describe it? Like I was acting gay? Not quite.... hmmm... let's just leave it at "weird". But anyway, I am glad that I'm over all that, because the HUcaseal (and the FOmarl and the RAmarl, IMO) are really sweet!

[Maverynthia]

What's this BIG problem people have with "gay"...I'm getting sick of hearing you all go on about "gay" this and acting all "gay"... You people need to grow up...

[2Xtreme]

I said I didn't feel "gay". That word was close, but I didn't feel "gay" per say. I can't describe how I felt. Anyways, I'm over it now.

[Abductor]

Sonic Team should have added the following line:
"Also gets hit on the most by adolescent boys who play HUmars."



This post exposes the danger of playing video games too much. You shy nerdy guys need to balance your videogame time with "real" activities where you meet, among others, "real" girls. Don't let the virtual world act as a substitute for a real life. Hell there are girls out there that will spend hours playing videogames with you but you won't meet them on PSO.

This is the age where a shy nerdy guy is the wealthiest man in the world. The jocks that make fun of you now may well be asking you if you "want fries with that" in a few years. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif Get out there and meet some people and take some chances.

[Blur2168]

personally i prefer playing guy characters ( cuz im a guy) but i made a HUcaseal neway just to see if they're a good class. then @ about lv 55 i wuz like "damn, i need to make a guy char. this feels wierd" ( kinda like that 2Xtreme said) so i made a FOnewm. haha well i already made a FOmar and he wuz a pain so i deleted him, so FOnewm's coo. my 2 cents

[HONOTORI]

Why would it be weird. What makes it weird is those sicko's who pick girl chars and act like girls online!

[Kayumi]

Online, gender does not apply. You should not be going onto the internet to attempt to meet a girl. Online relationships are very dangerous, and can be very, very, very painful. I've heard occasional tales of them working out but in my personal experience, I've never seen one that ended well, let alone failed to cause pain.

Getting offended because someone's physical reality is different from the way they act online is foolish. It's common sense not to make any assumptions on the internet based on how someone chooses to represent themselves. I'm often mistaken for a woman online, and sometimes I don't bother to correct that mistake. Sometimes I even encourage that belief. Doesn't make me sick, or gay. It shouldn't make people treat me any differently than they otherwise would. It's sometimes surprising the way that isn't true, though. When people assume I'm female they act friendlier and more open. When they assume I'm male, or know beforehand, they act about neutral. Sometimes when people I don't know are informed that I'm male they immediately get less friendly and more closed, and sometimes they just go to neutral. It's quite interesting to see, especially since the chances of most of the online world ever meeting me in the flesh are close to zero. Why, then, should gender, specifically percieved gender, make such a difference in the way someone is treated?

If you like the way someone online thinks, don't change your opinion of them based on a couple of chromosones. Physical organs aren't accessible online. And since PSO is just a game, don't go searching for a serious relationship in it. Be sure to keep the game-reality and real-reality seperate. There's absolutely nothing wrong with roleplaying characters falling in love with each other, or whatever, no matter the gender of either player, so long as it doesn't extend outside the game.

And that's where the only problem with people playing characters with different genders to their own is--and it also applies to people playing their own gender, really. The game stays in the game. Online is not the same as real life. You are not going to meet your future spouse or lover online, unless you are incredibly lucky. It's very very rare. If you're going to get that worried about the sex of the people you're playing a game with, you need to sit back, look at the situation for a moment, and realize that there's no valid reason for it to matter.

One more thing...homosexuality and transgenderedness are hardly "sick". We're moving into the year 2003 within two weeks, let's get our brains out of the 50s, shall we? Tolerance and diversity are the watchwords of the era, and getting your panties in a knot over someone's sexual organs and sexual preferences is just a little silly. People are what they think, feel, and say, not their physical bodies.

(For the record, I'm a straight male who plays female characters almost 100% of the time, in computer games (because I like to watch the cute girls) and in paper-and-pencil-RPGs (because I like thinking up backstory and suchlike for females better than males. Spending hours imagining girls is so much more entertaining than spending hours thinking about guys...)

[Alielle]

I don't give a crap about anyone's gender. As long as they pick the right one hurr hurr hurr!

I'm kidding. All of you guys complaining about people not playing their own gender, or acting like another gender, should get out and play some D&D. Unfortunately, no one roleplays on PSO, and when they do, people don't understand ("omg wtf is wrong with u?!!1" etc.). Yay for dullards who don't understand the concept of roleplaying in a roleplaying game.

[Forever Zero]

I think it's ok to play as whoever you want. I'm a girl in real life and choose mainly guy chars. I play as a HUmar and FOmar mainly. Hah, I'm probably the only female who uses the guy chars. When someone refers to me as a he and I tell them I'm a she I get this: "LIES, YEA RIGHT" type stuff, heh.

I really like the male outfits much more than the girl chars. I couldn't stand my HUnewearl's looks, she looks kinda...you know, it just didn't fit me at all. Only girl char I use is RAmarl. Now she knows how to dress http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[DarknesstheHUCAseal]

I'm another male who tends to play female characters. Part of it is just aesthetic: i don't like the look of a lot of the male characters, and wish Sonic Team had added more diversity to their costumes, hairstyles, etc. Part of it is the new classes as well..out of 3, only 1 is male, and from what i hear,can be difficult to play compared to the other fo classes. Stats play a part as well, especially with the new limitations Sonic Team imposed on humars. And to be honest, the easy on the eyes thing is a factor too. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

I don't think there is any problem with a male playing a female character, or vice versa. In fact, it opens your eyes in many ways to the different ways people treat the different sexes. Playing a fonewearl on dc version 1, i was pretty shocked at the number of times i was hit on, shadowed (a male character constantly overlapping your own with his), and such, often very crudely so. Its important of course to honestly give your true gender when asked, but a lot of the problems deal with others false assumptions. Thankfully, it seems a lot of gc players are dc vets, and make less of them. For the bookish pso players in this thread, sherry turkle's Life on the screen is a pretty good read on gender in cyberspace that deals with some of the issues raised here.

It isn't weird for males to play female characters, any more than it is for a male novelist to write them. But it is important to be honest and upfront if anyone asks your gender, and also not to assume a persons gender, at all. Those two things will pretty much take the uncomfortableness out of the gender issue on pso, imo.

[IceBlink]

I use any character I like. ^_^ Sometimes I roleplay, sometimes, I don't. : O (anyone remember Lyric the tiny FOmarl? Ah-hahaa)

There's nothing wrong with whatever gender character you pick, because this is a game. You're free to be who you want to be. And if you can't handle the FOnewearl next to you being a guy, well... ^_^

I still remember the 'wedding' between two RAmars back in v2... both of them turned out to be female behind the controllers! ^_^; There's a lot of strange things which happen in the world of PSO... and in the end, it only makes the game more richer. o_O

[CounterStryke]

I say its alright for a guy to choose any character that that is available to them. I mean if a girl were playing any game that had a male as the main character does that mean that that girl is considered weird for that. The developers obviously wanted it so that guys wouldn't only play with the male characters or they could have had created a totally different version for that purpose, but that would be stupid now wouldn't it. However i draw the line if a guy is playing games like Barbie. I mean really a guy playing Barbie. LOL

[EDarkness]

This is an interesting thread. You know, I generally use a male character, but at some point during my DC PSO days I started playing a RAcaseal. I got the idea after playing through the Find My Master quest. The little RAcaseal NPC babe was pretty cute. When I started playing that character online a bunch of guys began hitting on me. It was funny. But I always told people that I was a guy.

The problem I have is that the game doesn't have any cool outfits for the male characters. Even the new force guy looks bad. They need to work on that in the next installment of PSO. Because of this, when I'm considering making a new character the options are limited. I think this contributes to more guys playing as female characters.

Unfortunately, with any kind of online game there are going to be people who are looking to hit on the opposite sex. Personally, it doesn't matter to me, as long as I'm left out of it. Online has this stigma where once someone finds out there's a woman online everyone flocks to them. I don't know how women deal with it, honestly. I gues in some cases they play online as guys. I can't blame, 'em either.

Anyway, I play AD&D and quite a few guys play female characters. It's just something you get used to. Of course, sometimes the guys get a little wierded out when their "female" chracter gets into "freaky" situations and they have to play it out. Heh, I always love that. With online RPGs there's very little RPG stuff going on so it's not that bad.

That's my take on it.


-EDarkness