Fappy said:
aegix drakan said:
I'll definitely agree that Tabletops and LARPs are much much harder to gender-swap convincingly. I doubt I'd be able to pull it off under most circumstances. I can do it decently in video games, as the rules and interactions are all streamlined right into the game, but with full RP freedom, I think it would be a lot trickier to do well.
I was mostly talking about creating female characters for video games which is what that chart Phasmal posted was about. Role playing a woman is a lot harder than just writing a woman, I find. Still, this IS just my own personal experience.
I completely agree with this. I can get into the mind of a female character given some extra thought and consideration, but when you have to roleplay off the cuff it becomes much harder. I have played a few female PCs and NPCs in D&D before (probably 50/50 male to female as far as PCs go) and my female characters have always taken a lot more time and effort to flesh out.
Not exactly sure why that is, honestly.
Probably because you are not a woman? And thus you have to run your thought process through an extra step and filter it through likely female responses compared to male responses to any given situation of significance?
I would agree it is harder for some people to roleplay the opposite gender in a tabletop environment, compared to text based. I wouldn't know, because I don't do it. I'm more comfortable playing male characters, so that's what I do.
Oddly enough, my friend, who always plays female, still always plays female even in tabletop. Though he doesn't really roleplay her as a woman. But, to be fair, he hardly roleplays at all, due to near crippling stage fright and performance anxiety at the table. So no matter what kind of character he plays, he has difficulty doing this. But apparently playing a female character doesn't make it any easier for him either.