 Rollplaying defended, gender examined, REAL MEN ROLL PLAY! RAARRHHH! |
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 Feb 21 2006, 11:28 AM
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Free Spirit  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,944 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920  |
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Feb 21 2006, 10:06 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
This was a most interesting thread.
Need to think about a few things & will get back to it in a bit.. |
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Feb 22 2006, 04:43 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
One thing we can all agree on, is that wailing on guitars is awesome and will cause buildings to collapse... or make you look pathetically 80's.
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Feb 22 2006, 10:00 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
Definitely true. Up at Evergreen College, in Washington, there is a stairwell in the humanities building that has superb resonance. One evening we wanted to find out what the sonic fundamental of the space was so we took an oscillator and began running through frequencies until we found the stairwell's sympathetic node. All of a sudden things started to go out of phase so we kept correcting until we realised we were actually warping the surrounding framework in this corner of the structure. Yes sound can be a very potent weapon. |
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Feb 22 2006, 10:30 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
WWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *head bangs until his head falls off*
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Feb 23 2006, 01:19 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
You misspelled "awesomely". ~J |
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Feb 23 2006, 03:22 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
Almost missed that!
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Feb 23 2006, 03:23 AM
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Ah, nothing better then to read forums 4 houres for a "qick" laugh before going to bed. :D
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Mar 1 2006, 04:08 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Hmm, I remember you being one of those people who would sometimes make posts concerning "role playing". I'd be interested to hear your comments. Have you figured out what you wanted to say yet? |
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Mar 1 2006, 05:20 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 1-March 06 Member No.: 8,323 |
I for the most part try to promote character interaction at all times. but i tend to divide my game up between 2 sections.
A) a shit ton of interaction and info gathering/preparing B) plan exicution and me mucking up there plans and them failing at combat and teh same guy saving them through getting pissed off and decidign to whip out his rifle cuz the ywere taking to long and he is the getaway driver/engineer so in this one session one of the characters Reggie did a nigth full of infiltration work and then decided to sleep during the day. befor he went to bed he gave a number to anotehr player to get soem information and get a chip they needed programed. The other player playing Richard a forgetful old mans calls teh guy up and forgets waht he was supose to do. In a panic he sets one of the otehr cahracters up on a date withthe guy to get somethign completely unrelated. I was dying laughing at this point cuz i looked across the table and see Reggie's player just shaking hsi head. Reggie gets pissed off when he wakes up kidnaps the poor clerk during his date with the other PC a character named Sarah. And i still think til thsi day the 2 old men reggie and richard are trying to sell off sarah into slavery... |
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Mar 1 2006, 06:54 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
I have a prety good idea Just been too busy as of late to submit any lengthy posts which this one most will certainly be. Will try to finally get my .02 :nuyen: in on Wednesday during lunch or after work. |
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Mar 1 2006, 04:39 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 944 Joined: 19-February 03 Member No.: 4,128 |
Do any of you know male RPG players who are _good_ at playing female characters?
In my RPG experience, cross-gamer characters tend to be lesbian supermodels with huge breasts (natural of course). Otherwise, the character tends to be identical to the player's last male character, just with different plumbing. And they think they are being so creative. They are only playing themselves in drag. |
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Mar 1 2006, 04:53 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 775 Joined: 31-March 05 From: florida Member No.: 7,273 |
i have to disagree, the only guy i have seen play a female character actually pulled it off, he was actually getting props from the female gamer that was in the group. but then again flea could dress in drag and be picked up in a straight bar to.
i'm currently experimenting with the concept and while the driver adept i made isnt an exact copy of my usual gun fu adept, it is close since they work off of the same basic premise. but hey its experimentation. |
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Mar 1 2006, 05:33 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
A full response to this thread will be forthcoming later today. A good part of it concerns the playing of female characters. |
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Mar 1 2006, 05:34 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
First off, yes. I know one right now who is very good at it. Aside from that, I like to think I am good at it as well since one of my primary PCs is a woman. I figure if I wasn't playing her well, then I'd hope someone (possibly one of the women I game with) would have said something in the last year and a half - especially since she and I are pretty much exact opposites. I have seen one of those ... Well, let's not dig up things best left buried. However that was one PC from one player out of a half-dozen or so (I wish I could recall, but I just can't remember everyone's PCs and NPCs) I've played with over the years. As for those, they were hardly some previous male PC in drag. The other people I play with tend to put a great deal of thought into their characters, plus there is the ... unpleasantness ... which has extended the usual mockery of crappy characters/ concepts to that specific situation as to make it irrelevant. But that's just me. |
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Mar 1 2006, 06:28 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
MAKE ME FORGET I'M A DYKE TONIGHT!
oh, whoops, we were letting that stay buried. my bad! |
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Mar 1 2006, 06:53 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
I've been told I do a good job. This is all online though, which may change things, but so far I've: - been offered two in game marriage proposals and a dozen in-game chocolates, roses, romantic dates etc. (in MUDs) - got a chance to laugh at someone else who cross-played terribly - am regularly referred to as 'she' and 'her' on forums if I have a sexually ambiguous handle - have been excused from posting on a game as I 'recently gave birth' - have been invited by my wife to crossplay pretty regularly because she enjoys having another female in the group I don't know if that means I'm good at crossplaying or that men are tragically stupid when it comes to women. |
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Mar 1 2006, 07:06 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,635 Joined: 27-November 05 Member No.: 8,006 |
I know a few of them that were really good at it playing Ultima Online. Incidentally a couple years back one of them came out of the closet and came to the conclusion that they were at heart a bisexual crossdresser IRL. Men were really only the thing when he was dressed appropriately in drag, and it was more about the seduction than the, you know, fluid exchange part. The guy himself is a fairly gruff guy that is into guns, martial arts, and japanese period blades/armor. |
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Mar 1 2006, 07:16 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
What is that from? |
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Mar 1 2006, 07:27 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
a dark, dark chapter in the history of shadowland, the site i play SR on.
dark. and horrible. |
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Mar 1 2006, 10:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
Nope! There is no such thing. The only thing worse is a female trying to play a male! If they can play at all instead of just "enhancing characters" and having "social interactions" |
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Mar 1 2006, 10:58 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Well, I've tried that before but I have no idea if I was convincing or not. Regarding "lesbians": I'm not sure it's a "bad" thing if your female shadowrunner ends up being, I want to say, more aggro than most women you meet. I think that having an aggro or nihilistic personality might predispose people in general to very dangerous deniable asset mercenary work. And IRL some women are just, well, combative. Some of my female friends were really into combative sports like judo. There was one young woman I knew in college who was a lesbian and I got her interested in boxing. The thing is that in general I got along better with these women who were into combative sports than I generally did with women who were less, well, aggro. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that if someone tries to play a female but exhibits a lot of "male" characteristics that's not necessarily unrealistic or incorrect per se. Because a lot of the women whom I got along best with as friends often were more aggro than the average bear and coincidentally or not many of them actually *were* lesbians or bisexual. |
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Mar 2 2006, 12:23 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
It wasn't dark. It was stupid. The unpleasantness was more a result of some of the reactions, which mostly sat on the retarded part of the poster spectrum. You know, this part. But then again, none of the people spouting off their own brand of grade A bullshit ever played with the man, whereas I did, so yeah... It pisses me to think about it. It's interesting, though. That happened years ago, and yet when I RP'ed my character meeting a notoriously lecherous PC for a job about six months ago, in spite of the fact that it made perfect sense for her to exploit his own libido in the process of recruiting him I felt uncomfortable about it. |
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Mar 2 2006, 10:15 AM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
Actually I have been told by my mostly female group that I do a good job of playing a female character. Which for some reason I always seem to do (the male ideas are less fun sounding...)
On the good looking lesbian thing. All my characters are vaugely good looking unless there is a reason for them not to be, and most, male or female are bi-sexual. The girls in the group play believable males, with out playing big packaged gay guys even. I have fond memories of the last SR3 game I ran where one female player's male character was consistantly being smaked for using the phrase "women, irrational, emotional creatures!" *SMACK!* "see I'm right." But then he was Irish... |
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Mar 2 2006, 01:31 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 20-May 05 Member No.: 7,405 |
What gets me is when someone starts telling me about the sex life of their character, period. If someone sits down and declares that their character scores a lot, or is bisexual, or is a 'chick with huge sweater pillows,' without a shred of irony, I usually chock them up to to being a 'vicarious liver'
I've played with girls who were OK gamers. I've played with girls that could have been, but wouldn't give the activity a chance. I've played with girls that were horrible but had a lot of enthusiasm and learned over time. I don't think, over all, girls have any particular tendencies as far as what they play and how they play it. I think there's a lot more scrutiny of their play and their motives for that play, though. |
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