Have you ever played a character of the opposite sex?

[Crell Damar]

yeah, human is definately easier to use when you first start out
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[Tybalt]

ok thanks for all the replies, especially rathe, for your tips on non-human species. i think i will make a falleen
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[Rathe Ehtar]

You're welcome, Tybalt.

About the Falleen, I speak from experience that you made a good choice. Eh, Crell?
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[Crell Damar]

hehe... a true gentleman never tells
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[Tybalt]

haha,. thanks again guys
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[Son of Fire]

I have tried to play a female on a few occasions.
But I just can’t seem to “get into it”.
I guess I’m just to macho.
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[Volar the Healer]

Many years ago while playing D&D (1st edition - as in 3 little tan books), I saw a female player charge her warrior and attack three trolls, but later run from a giant spider. At that point, I decided no man could possibly play a female character well. So, my input would be no.
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[Hellstorm]

I did in D&D maybe a year ago 8)
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[Vartax]

A long time ago I made a character for d6 starwars....okay so not so long ago, but after a few years of playing a male bounty hunter trandoshan, I decided it was time to have a wife. I saved her from an entire guild hunting her. She was around for a while, but then she went back to start the nest. In any case, my character died in a freak listening to stupid people/thermal detinator accident. Then after finding out about this the wife (that I have started playing) is now on the hunt trying to find those responsible. I must admit that I often have to stop, think about what I am doing, and do something else that would be less like me and more female.

[Maximilian Bernas]

I have played female characters and my wife has played male characters. In the end, you just find whatever motivation you need and go from there.

I played an Alderaanian female right after A New Hope, and she was the most blood-thirsty, vengeful, intimidating little female you'd never want to meet. She never fell to the Dark Side, but she eventually got her house in order and retired to an agrarian planet to sow seeds of rebirth (or something along those lines). Later I felt as if I copped out and she could have been played better, but the guys I played with thought she was realistic, so I just took them at their word.

Besides, as a GM, we play all races, genders, and species. It's our job to be "everybody else." So, it should be easier for those of us who GM a lot. Right?
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[Hellcat]

Not for a Star Wars RPG. Went once with a friend of mine to one of his friends houses where he was GMing. They were trying to finish an adventure they'd had going for a while and a couple of their regulars weren't with them, so me and one other were assigned characters who were supposed to be killed off. I got some little old lady who became very demented under my control. If she'd been a real person, I swear she'd have been carted off to an insane assylum the way I played her. Which was actually a bad thing cause I was supposed to let her get killed and my friend liked how I played her that she actually lived to see the end of the adventure. So if she was never used in another adventure and died there you can bet that out there in whatever universe that game was set in that there's some insane little old lady running free amongst society with a broom to which is tied, bayonett style, a carving knife.
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[Feyladil]

Actually for quite some time I only played female characters. For me it meant more distance to the characters which - at that time - was very important to me. You know, I don't identify myself with the actions of my characters (no, I won't blast a Star Destroyer into pieces), so playing a person with the opposite sex helped.

Today roleplaying is different to me. I spent much more time to figure out what my characters shall be like. That way I can make it very clear that it's not me who is doing those things. Besides that we've got female players in the group now and I wouldn't even think to be able to play a female character as they can do.

I have to admit though, that female characters have there advantages... It's so easy to manipulate those stormtroopers with just a single smile.

[Jen'tara Rhee]

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[Firehawk0220]

I've never played characters of the opposite sex. Never. Its never really interested me.