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Who Is Ellen - 41 - HD
🕑 Added 2022-10-01 03:00:04 +0000 UTCClassy George.
Commentary
"She collects monsters and makes them fight."
"In a game?"
"...Sure."
Comments
Some Ed
I don't know, I feel like George either has it figured out or doesn't care enough about it to keep working on it. That said, I'd rather not make a prediction of what George's gender identity is, apart from not being my business.
Some Ed
Well, it's either that, or your players fairly quickly recognize something's a bit off in your campaign world. I've seen it go that way, too, and it really wasn't pretty.
Stephen Gilberg
It occurs to me that with tabletop RPGs, there's an extra reason for playing another gender: Having to change your voice makes it easier for others to tell when you're speaking in character.
John Trauger
Playing the old, cancelled and resurrecteed MMO City of Heroes there were male players that absolutely couldn't bring themselves the play a female. Since I didn't have that problem I can only guess why, though I suspect some form of masculinitiy issue. Not that there was a shortage of female characters. Oh no. There were lots of males playing females wearing as little as the game allowed them, though the game always had a reasonable minority of female players. My own stock of heroes and villains went about 75% female. As I told my brother once, "whose butt would you rather look at?"
Brian McCloud
Having a player with an opposite-sex character can lead to pronoun confusion (the movie "The Gamers: Dorkness Rising" includes an example of this). Ofc, if the opposite-sex character was due to a belt of masculinity/femininity, said confusion would actually be in-character for all involved.
A Red Mage Named Blue
It's said that every D&D group has at least one member working through discovering their gender identity. Considering this comic, it's most likely every single member
AstroChaos
It can also be just for effect. I have a female death domain cleric of Tharizdun. She's cute, crazy, and creepy... and that effect tends to bleed over to everyone as players when it's my beefy 6'1 male self sing-songing stuff like "I play and the dead dance to my tune" while playing whatever music instrument she has on hand. Or imaginary ones, if she doesn't. In as close to a sweet girl voice as I can manage, of course. It wouldn't work half as well if she were a he. I should point out that she was created for a Halloween game and I only pull her out for the occasional on-shot. Would be a bit much for a full campaign
Thisguy
haha, true.
Brooks Moses
I am a bit amused at George's sorceress switching pronouns between "she" and "they" mid-sentence, but mainly because that feels like a thing I'd accidentally do.
KC
It's only weird if you make it weird
KC
They must go to the same optometrist
Servo Kamen
Hell, I love playing female characters.
Thisguy
Probably still a thing with certain people, but generally it’s “whatever you feel like”… unless the DM uses pregens. Thing is, most people play what they want because that’s the story they want to tell. Not necessarily anything to do with who they feel they are personally. Sometimes it’s just more fun to play a girl who kicks ass than a guy who does.
jubs
That's a very good point.
Paul Rendell
Well a paladin is something Rich is definitely not so I guess we'll see if he enjoys this.
Sergei Alderman
Keep in mind the awful friends we saw in his flashback. They probably weren't much like what you or I might consider a typical circle of nerdy friends
AstroChaos
Yeah... Once you start GMing, any hangups you might have about it feeling odd to play a character of a different gender tend to go the way of the dodo.
Carl Fink
Why is George wearing Tedd's glasses in panel 3?
jubs
Is this still a thing? I've played for a couple of decades with multiple different groups, and there has always been someone, or multiple someones, playing another gender to their own, and I've never ever heard anyone say anything about it.
Stephen Gilberg
Really, Rich. I plan to play a girl next time, not because I feel like one on the inside, but because the context is good for escapism. Can't you enjoy playing something you're not?
