This is a touchy subject among most communities I've roleplayed in. There are cases to be made on both sides: I have had strictly IC interactions with female players who have stated in similar threads on other games' forums that they simply wouldn't be comfortable RPing a relationship with a character played by another woman. Some were single, some were happily married. The vast majority of those interactions never bled into real life and were relatively drama free, so I feel it's unfair to generalize and say that these players simply don't know the difference between IC and OOC.
With that being said, if an opportunity presents itself to go into a romantic subplot in my RP, what matters to me is the way the character is played. If someone I know for a fact is male (through OOC threads here on the RPC, or via VOIP during raids and such) can still play a female character in a believable way, with a personality that my character would be attracted to - then sure, why not?
More often than not, though, I find female players are simply better at playing female characters - so in that way I supposed there does exist a bias on my part. I have been pleasantly surprised in the past, though, and one of my oldest characters (a dark elf sorcerer in a text-based game called GemStone IV) remains dysfunctionally but happily married to a wonderful half-elf wizardess who is played by a RL male. xD
With that being said, if an opportunity presents itself to go into a romantic subplot in my RP, what matters to me is the way the character is played. If someone I know for a fact is male (through OOC threads here on the RPC, or via VOIP during raids and such) can still play a female character in a believable way, with a personality that my character would be attracted to - then sure, why not?
More often than not, though, I find female players are simply better at playing female characters - so in that way I supposed there does exist a bias on my part. I have been pleasantly surprised in the past, though, and one of my oldest characters (a dark elf sorcerer in a text-based game called GemStone IV) remains dysfunctionally but happily married to a wonderful half-elf wizardess who is played by a RL male. xD
Yvelont Navarre
Parn Paparn
IC Blog for Yvelont: http://never-your-pawn.tumblr.com
OOC Blog: http://navarre-again.tumblr.com
Parn Paparn
IC Blog for Yvelont: http://never-your-pawn.tumblr.com
OOC Blog: http://navarre-again.tumblr.com
