Personally I've almost always played male characters (and I'm a male). Â I've tried and I can't convincingly pull off a female persona.
I don't really care one way or another about the genders of the players of other characters though. Â
I do have an amusing story about a friend who played a female character back in his wow days. Â The character was subtle, non-violent, more or less the 'everyone's loving second mother' type of persona.
Apparently he played the female part so well that he had trouble getting people to believe he was a guy behind the keyboard some years later. Â I was over at his house when someone started sending him tells about particular female problems. Â
He replies that he's a guy and didn't have the proper body parts to be of help, but they persisted saying 'she could drop the charade, they all knew the player was a girl. Â it's alright. and included even more detail'.Â
He looked over to his wife with this horrified embarrassed expression on his face and said "I have no idea how to handle this."
She took over the keyboard and stated with  "I'm such and such's RL wife.  You really need to get that looked at by a doctor." Â
After that, they were more inclined to believe he was a lesbian until he finally got on voice coms. Â Much embarrassment and a few accusations of using a voice changer followed.
I don't really care one way or another about the genders of the players of other characters though. Â
I do have an amusing story about a friend who played a female character back in his wow days. Â The character was subtle, non-violent, more or less the 'everyone's loving second mother' type of persona.
Apparently he played the female part so well that he had trouble getting people to believe he was a guy behind the keyboard some years later. Â I was over at his house when someone started sending him tells about particular female problems. Â
He replies that he's a guy and didn't have the proper body parts to be of help, but they persisted saying 'she could drop the charade, they all knew the player was a girl. Â it's alright. and included even more detail'.Â
He looked over to his wife with this horrified embarrassed expression on his face and said "I have no idea how to handle this."
She took over the keyboard and stated with  "I'm such and such's RL wife.  You really need to get that looked at by a doctor." Â
After that, they were more inclined to believe he was a lesbian until he finally got on voice coms. Â Much embarrassment and a few accusations of using a voice changer followed.
