Overall it's a pretty poor choice to promte transgenderism/sexchange operations. The MAJORITY of vtm players are heterosexual and like men to look masculine and women to look feminine, this is like a staple in d&d, just another thing to dislike about the game
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Context: The OP is referring to the Main Character (“Phyre”) of the upcoming game Bloodlines 2. While Phyre can be somewhat customized by the player, including gender, some people are butthurt that the default Phyre looks androgynous despite their gender. The OP is taking that argument to its logical (& bigoted) conclusion.
heterosexual and like men to look masculine
So did artist Tom of Finland.
So why did straight married man Koefficient recently cosplay as Hololive’s Mococo Abyssgard…?!
…and when it comes to games, why do so many straight men choose the female main character in “Genshin Impact”, “Honkai Star Rail” and “Zenless Zone Zero”?
Perhaps because these straight men are secure in their masculinity. Are you, OP…?!
@Anon-e-moose #233838
when it comes to games, why do so many straight men choose the female main character
True, when I have to look at an ass on my screen the entire time, I’d prefer it to be a female ass.
…That’s a joke, btw, I’m not trying to be sexist here. I also play female PCs even in First Person games.
I'm a veteran if the tabletop - not as active as I used to be, but I've definitely seen more than my fair share of bisexual Toreador characters being played by straight guys and gals playing Nosferatu... There's a not insignificant amount of the player base who actually love exploring characters outside of buff dude and sexy gal.
And I've met more women who played VTMB than dudes over the last couple of decades too.
“Overall it's a pretty poor choice to promte transgenderism/sexchange operations. The MAJORITY of vtm players are heterosexual and like men to look masculine and women to look feminine,”
I started playing AD&D in 1981. We were ALL THE TIME finding either magical artifacts expressly made to swap genders or cursed to swap the user’s gender. And if it was cursed there was always an additional curse that you couldn’t take it off.
So, no matter how masculine you made your character (I was in a Navy school for a submarine rate at the time, nothing but men in the barracks), you might end up crossdressing.
But… The game is escapism. Half the characters i played were females, not necessarily feminine. It was fun and very escapist to play a Vestal Virgin while living in the sausage convention that was Dam Neck.
Also played a storm giant, a gnome, a unicorn, a centaur…
“this is like a staple in d&d, just another thing to dislike about the game”
That’s the coolest thing about AD&D. Don’t like a rule, ignore it. Don’t like a character, play a different one. Don’t like the world, then DM a better one. A really poor reason to dislike the game.
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