What sex do you play in BG?
Southpaw
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We had polls about alignment, favorite classes...how about what sex do you mostly/always choose for your BG character?
- What sex do you play in BG?296 votes
- Male (I'm a guy)58.78%
- Female (I'm a guy)13.85%
- Male (I'm a lady)0.68%
- Female (I'm a lady)12.50%
- Beholders are genderless14.19%
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* Being 'forced' to play Tyris Flare in Golden Axe (because Ax Battler was taken and child-me was apparently racist against dwarves) notwithstanding.
I think I am just secretly going for the freebies... *hush, no , who said that?*
You're in a very small minority. You can't really blame the OP for not expecting folks like yourself.
Either way, excepting "romances" the effects are purely cosmetic. So even having the ability to choose gender in BG is ultimately (mechanically) pointless.
And weirdly not even really thinking about a female char there.. maybe for the 'romances' coming around (i can't imagine the male romances dialogues a second too here..^) , not even talking about the 'baal dude' thing.. can't imagine a 'baalette' heroin at the end too.. weirdly. ^ -!
Now, that is kinda strange thinking about it.. as all my other 'recent' chars in 'Fantasy/D&D' environments (Dragon Age I/II, Skyrim) were females.. there, matching better in my opinion the kind of humour i wanted; extra agile & quick, classy.. when almost every male around are mostly brutes in ultra heavy armors)) ... light & classy at the same time).
Talking about that, the 'voiced' male char in Dragon Age 2 was also a kind of ridiculous sad joke.. ; i could not imagine a single second a male char with that dumb forced voice.. the female voice was way better, and even better on a very classy blondie agile/etc archer/like.. even if the voice was initially for a brunette too apparently..was matching perfectly at least. Now, i could not avoid to make her kinda gentle with the moron (but real true terrorist!) anders dude (just to try to keep him in the party when needed)..the dumb romance thing there not only made him finally sleep with her after whinning like a moron but he betrayed everything she tried to do at the end (& perfectly knowing it) !.. At least she could kill him for the final thanks (the poor sickos did not even protest, and even agreed..!) ..but too late alas.. ^
As for Skyrim, that was just hilarious to get a gorgeous Nordie girl walking around some barbarian brutes in skyrim 3D engine... even if there, i have to say, almost impossible to marry her decently (with a male i mean..in those typical male nordies societies..sorry the liberal/progressive/feminists folks..was not that simple in those real world kind of societies too then lol.. ; lucky dragonborn girlie to be able to stay alone though/.. ^) ; you got almost only horrible NPC males available for husbands.. impossible she could marry one of those.. now, maybe in the Dawnguard DLC, i think there is a possible decent dude that could match her class... if not, better stay alone than to get married with a lezard or old crappy moron (and not even possible to marry a big cat for females!..at the very least..)) )..as if the skyrim dev guys made an inner joke about that; only crappy possible husbands for the pretty straight female dragonborns..psss...and as she isn't lez and don't especially wish to adopt free little children like furnitures to decorate her 3 little palaces at the end.. i fear there will be no natural dragonborn heirs in that story.. or maybe only if the dawnguard dude is decent, maybe.. nuff said. ^ ))
As for BGs.. well, no, weirdly, no real curiosity for a female char.. and i always preferred imoen/aerie/vico etc companies to the male 'douche' dudes presented as possible.. 'friends' anyway.. and certainly not the new big bloody literaly criminal brute orc (looking like a bad mad Hulk joke in the bg1 ankhed armor btw!).. that will change that imho.. though, for mainly humour reason again, maybe... one day.. *))
We're still on the first page too, so it wouldn't be surprising if there were a few more.
We had many polls about people and their preference already. I was thinking about asking for the preferred race (or "what race would you be"), but then I know I would have to add Mind Flayer for me, Beholders for @KidCarnival, Myconids for @OneAngryMushroom and @God knows what mummified undead gnome illusionists are. (Yes, I am looking at you, @Anduin!)
Back to topic...
Like slugs... Beholders are indeed genderless...
Uhhhmmm... I'm not even sure what gender I am... You see it has been under wraps and not seen the daylight for a very long time. I presume I'm male... But then why am I not a Daddie?
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Also I keep failing a morale check each time I go have a look...