What determines what gender you choose for your characters?

[Lulz~Sect]

Like I ever had more than 2-3 characters on an account!

barf

[Polyphemous]

This question could be quite problematic for P99. What if a player who lives in Canada decides his character is now a different gender; if the GMs don't immediately change to the gender he chooses (any of the 100+ available IRL) then Rogean et al. could be committing a felony. The ICC at the Hague might have to get involved.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Transylvania [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What determines what gender you choose for your characters?

My penis I was born with.

This is retarded unless you only roll human toons.

Female definitely only choice for iksar. Such face paint!

[Pan]

I didn't realize I'd picked a female ikky until I /con-ed myself at L22 or so by mistake. Turns out that SHE appeared quite formidable.

/surname Lola

[Foxplay]

I am a male
I identify as a male
All my characters are male

This is true for all MMO's I have ever played with only ONE exception. When I played Guild War's 2, I picked a Female Charr - (cat people) - The reason was purely cosmetic. The Male Charr look almost beastly rather than feline, where as the females are much more feline looking and had a cheetah pelt to choose from on character customization - also they did not have boobs so It was acceptable for me to believe my character was still a male

TL;DR - I don't like boobies

[d3r14k]

Originally Posted by Caiu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can the character natively cast a spell? Female
If not then male.

I'm not sure I understand the word natively in this context. Are all spellcasters natively able to cast spells?

As per the discussion, I've not played a female character in an MMO. I don't judge guys that do, but I've always tried to identify with characters I play and that's more difficult for me if the character is female.

I've heard the argument that "well I don't want to stare at a guy's ass for 200 hours while I play my character". This makes less sense on EQ where the ass is 50 pixels rather than something like Overwatch where the asses are gargantuan, pixelated perfection. I realize that's a crap example because it's an FPS, but you get my meaning.

[Secrets]

Gender is determined at spawn, much like race and other things are.

There are 3 genders in everquest: 0, 1, and 2.

Nilbog or Rogean can confirm.

[Jhaerik]

I have a penis.... so all of my characters do as well.

Would make cybering far less awkward if everyone would follow that simple rule.

[mefdinkins]

Originally Posted by Pan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I didn't realize I'd picked a female ikky until I /con-ed myself at L22 or so by mistake. Turns out that SHE appeared quite formidable.

/surname Lola

hahahaha, I never knew that was by mistake. I don't think I ever realized either until you stood next to male iskar w/ diff coloration

[d3r14k]

Originally Posted by Jhaerik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Would make cybering far less awkward if everyone would follow that simple rule.

Cybering? Man, you're really living like it is 1999, aren't you?