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Topic: Gender Roles (an unorganized possible feminist rant)
Subject: Well actually...
When he tried to change my character from Rogue to Cleric, I not only called him out on it, the two of us spent a good two hours hashing out just what boundaries needed to be set regarding our characters. That was rather early in our relationship, and we have a lot of heart to hearts to stay on a common ground.
Occassionally he still wants to add traits to my characters, but for the most part he asks before doing so. I think the improvement he's made since then is good for our relationship, but when he forgets to ask it does still bother me.
I am glad he doesn't try to have his character in a relationship with any of my characters in-game. That would annoy the underworld out of me.
Posted on 2012-04-20 at 02:56:12.
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Topic: So who was your first?
Subject: First Character Funsies
My first character was so long ago, ahaha!
The earliest one I can remember playing as was a Galaxy Police trooper back when I had the books for the Tenchi Muyo OVA tabletop game and Tenchi Universe expansion book(Anime-based DnD! To this day I have no idea why or how it existed...). I did not get to play her that often, though, because my brothers kicked me out of the campaign as soon as my parents allowed them to. It just wasn't "cool" to have your little sister play with your friends.
Posted on 2012-04-19 at 16:02:34.
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Topic: New InnMate
Subject: New InnMate
Hello! My name is FabFlyingFox, though I go by Saki. I am Texas State Manager in a gaming community and modeling group called The D20 Girls Project. I was referred to this site by Tann’Talas recently.
I typically play 3.5, Star Wars, and Tephra (my personal favorite: a steampunk DnD releasing from Cracked Monocle here in Texas soon), though I am willing to learn new games and try different mechanics for the sake of personal wealth of knowledge.
I hope to be able to join a few games here over the summer, as I have two more weeks of my spring semester at college presently.
Posted on 2012-04-19 at 15:56:11.
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Topic: Gender Roles (an unorganized possible feminist rant)
Subject: Two-cents a plenty:
Hello, my name is Saki, and I am the Texas Manager of a gaming community and modeling group called The D20 Girls Project. I was sent an email by Tann’Talas to check out the forums, with a copy of the opening post for this thread!
I hope you don't mind me posting my personal two-cents:
The gender roles issue in tabletop, I can see where females can tend to have two different character types relating to either Sailor Moon or She-Hulk.
Interestingly enough, when I have played female characters, I tend to play as characters that are either reminiscent of River Tam from Firefly or Mulan (due to personal gender identity confusion throughout life). Now, River Tam can be argued as a socially reclusive yet powerful female character, but it is arguable whether you can truly consider her a "Strong Woman Fighter." Though I will say, it may be a tad different when you're playing Jedi class in a Star Wars campaign than, say, a warrior class in 3.5.
Currently I'm playing a character in Dead Reign that is a professional skater (think Jet Set Radio) with a heavy amount of training in motorcycle drive skills, acrobatics, and martial arts. That said, in a post-apocalyptic zombie campaign, this character may be at a disadvantage because she does not have any guns she is skilled in, and has to borrow them from the Humvee that the party uses to store a load of weapons. She has to get in close to zombies to fight them, and use an action point to create some distance after attacking. So if the attack misses, she can be pretty useless in some battles. (Note: the DM made everyone's characters for this campaign, and I was originally not made a character due to my usually busy schedule.)
I do also have the problem that my boyfriend will sometimes make decisions for me regarding my character and her traits, one time almost completely changing my class from rouge to cleric without my consent. Granted, that fits the female stereotype of playing more rouges than warriors as posed by the OP, but the idea that a male player, let alone my boyfriend, and not the DM, tried to have a say in what MY character should be... is that a problem for other DnD players than me?
Then there's the problem where the DnD group and I work on my character LAST, because somehow everyone elses character in the group has already been decided upon, and I have to choose the leftover classes to keep a well-rounded party. If I were not the newest member of our DnD circle and had a more open schedule to come to every campaigning session, I would see this as a gender divide.
The good thing about my DnD group is that some of the men in our group DO play female characters - powerful AND feminine characters - and typically have the decency to keep them from becoming a joke or some male character's trophy. It brings me some piece of mind, which may also denote why I don't always feel I have to play a female character as a biological woman.
I actually love to play genderbenders the most, regardless of class.
Posted on 2012-04-19 at 15:20:41.
Edited on 2012-04-19 at 15:21:22 by FabFlyingFox
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