What's the deal with guys playing female characters in RPG's?

[Sparrowhawk]

Anyone ever factor the morality into the equation?

Playing a male I think I subconsciously hold back on fighting the females (feels wrong to hit a female, even in a game), with no problem fighting the males.

Playing as a female, no problem hitting/killing anyone ( except maybe that Baby someone referred to earlier, even if they were a devil worshipping evil eating type of Baby )

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And staring at a computer generated character for hours on end is easier when the character is a female

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
Anyone ever factor the morality into the equation?

Playing a male I think I subconsciously hold back on fighting the females (feels wrong to hit a female, even in a game), with no problem fighting the males.

Nonsense! If they are doing my precious character damage, they shall pay, no matter what gender.

[Skanky Burns]

Most guys hold back from hunting down females "out of the blue" while they will gladly hack to death and loot a guy they don't know.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Most guys hold back from hunting down females "out of the blue" while they will gladly hack to death and loot a guy they don't know.

I don't discriminate.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Most guys hold back from hunting down females "out of the blue" while they will gladly hack to death and loot a guy they don't know.

I hack and loot everybody/everything. I'm an equal opportunity hacker.

[Sikander]

I don't do it often, but in a game with little or no roleplaying which touches on gender I'll sometimes choose a female character because it is more soothing to look at.

[Skanky Burns]

Change the "most" to "some" then.

[FlameFlash]

Depends.

In P&P I will play a female character if the entire group is a bunch of guys just to throw that extra element of RP into the mix that wouldn't be there otherwise-and to be able to slap them on the back of the head both in game and out of game when they're perverts. After all, I'd think most of that stuff would have been left in middle and high school (and the gaming group was all twenty-something).

As far as computer RPGs, I don't play very many. KOTOR would be one, played through being good with a guy, so on my second trip as going evil I just figured I might as well go through as an angry red-head (wife is one sometimes anyway ).

[Whoha]

Let it be known that I would have abused the extra plasma/blaster damage bug ay any chance I got.

[lord of the mark]

if we're not limiting it to RPG's, then I must say its cause of the mindworms

[Dry]

Originally posted by Verto
1.) The female character possesses abilities they want. Their choice is purely strategic.

Correct. Female Britons in Morrowind have my 'ideal' stats.

2.) They are perverts who want breasts.

Not only breats. All the mobile parts...
That and the voice, and the little screams when they hit/are hit...

3.) They are trying to play all the classes available.

Errr..., well, no.
But well to check the game side quests/possibilities.
BG2: while Nalia complains about not having the right to be Lord (Lady) of her own land, you, as female fighter, you may become her 'Lord Protector'.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
Anyone ever factor the morality into the equation?

Playing a male I think I subconsciously hold back on fighting the females (feels wrong to hit a female, even in a game), with no problem fighting the males.

Playing as a female, no problem hitting/killing anyone ( except maybe that Baby someone referred to earlier, even if they were a devil worshipping evil eating type of Baby )

no because you always assume the person controlling the female character to be male. Its not the digitized character thats important to me, but the person thats playing.

Actually most female charactrs are annoying (due to their usual advantage) and I find myself taking immense satisfaction beating the crap out of them, slipping a few phrase like "die *****" once or twice when im beating on their helpless body after the round is over... or gibbing the body after being killed etc.

[Dis]

actually I see no problem playing a female in a single player game.

But in a MMORPG? I haven't played one yet. But I'm fairly certain I'll play a male character. I don't want to get hit on by other guys .

[vovan]

What's the deal with guys playing female characters in RPG's?

They are girlie men!

The only RPG I ever played with a female character was Fallout... Not much electronic boobs there, so that wasn't the reason. The reason was that you could play the game differently then, like someone above said.