Author: Archangel (---.ntli.net)
Date: 08-18-2004 09:14
Well, not literally, but in the one-shots I've run, it's been pretty common for female players to play male characters. Admittedly, this is because only around 20-35% of the pre-genned PCs I come up with are female, and occasionally I get surprised by a disproportionate number of female players.
For example, a Cthulhu Dark Ages band of travellers consisted of a priest (male), warrior monk (male), cleric (male), a Viking mercenary (male), a travelling healer (female) and her beggar bodyguard (male). In the event, the cleric character was played by a female player, to no apparent weirdness.
An earlier Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay one-shot, intended to have two female characters and four male ones, ended up with four female players and two males.
In a few months, I'll be running a Godlike one-shot, where the PCs are a squad of American TOG paratroopers. There's no room for female PCs in that kind of set-up so I envisage all the characters being male. However, the way my group works, I'll probably end up with at least one female player. On past experience, this won't matter.
Later next (academic) year, I've got another Godlike campaign coming up, where the PCs are Wehrmacht Ubermenschen at the Battle of the Bulge. Again, no room for female characters. I've already got at least one female player lined up (Erfalaswen), prepared to play a Herr, rather than a Frau.
I did have a point when I started typing... I think I've lost it.
Perhaps I was reflecting on how it's more common to have females playing male characters, and nobody even notices it as unusual or odd.
(Oh well, if I wasn't, then I can be, because it's a nice point to make.)
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