I always make a male and female character and give them the same name from my other games if possible (I gave them personality/backstories in my head, dont ask). And sometimes I make multiple characters from different classes, species, races, skin colors etc. and if I feel creative, their back story/bio. Helps if one is a creative person that likes to write stories.

  • vegeta1 [he/him]
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    Vegeta cares not from where the blood flows, only that it flows without cease for all eternity. vegeta-stare

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]
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    Hey now in fallout(s) you can get a perk(lady killer/black widow) that increases the damage against enemies of the opposite gender, and being how that the ratio of men to women enemies is like 85% to 15% , it's just smart and logical to play as a girl

    AND NO OTHER REASON

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      New Vegas had me playing a bisexual character before I realized I am bisexual because it gave me that sweet damage buff vs everyone

  • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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    Naw, my dysphora goes screm-a so bad as a child I had to play men when I could, though family would be like 'hehe, lil tamagotchi is that your boyfriend?' (nah way too masc). Virtual reality induced gender dysphoria, yep.

    In TES sometimes I want to blend in (dark elf in Morrowind, Imperial in Oblivion, Argonian in Arena, etc) in some MMOs I'm that guy that plays a boring human support class dude while everyone else is a blue-red tree bard.

    • Frivolous_Beatnik [comrade/them, any]
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      Just be like me and play argonian in every game because based lizard liberation, 50/50 on masc/fem (except in skyrim because fem argonian voice just sounds awful angery )

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    One exception: If I'm playing as a dwarf, he has to be male and have a great beard. Otherwise, what's the point? Unless lady dwarfs have beards in this setting, then I'm doing that.

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    I sometimes prefer playing men just because of how male-gazy they make women look. It just seems weird at times, beyond what I'd brush off as artistic and stylistic choices.

    In some games girls getting cooler clothes, like in Pokemon. In stuff like Guild Wars I loved both male and female armor sets, depending on the class.

  • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]
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    I almost always make my melee characters women and generally small. Yes the lady gnome is your tank today, bow down to your leader.

  • AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]
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    I gave them personality/backstories in my head, dont ask

    FINALLY, I’m not the only one. meow-hug

    It’s actually what gave my egg the last kick it needed. I was getting bored with always playing the nice, naive protagonist and wanted something different with my Dragon Age 2 playthrough. So I spent an entire evening making my fem-Hawke, searching for a name and making up a personality and was really satisfied with my creation.

    Well, 2 weeks later it dawned on me that I didn’t really create a personality, but instead just subconsciously gave her my own, which I was keeping buried under a big pile of denial and ignorance. Turns out that you don’t have to be very feminine and cute to be a trans woman.

    And to put the cherry on top: I also liked the name so much that exactly 10 years later now, I’m finally gonna make it my official one (well, with 1 letter changed).

    The end.

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      One of my friends did similar, kept making different versions of the same character for D&D until he realised he didn't want to play the character, he wanted to be him.
      Which was good, because I found his character really boring next to stuff like the unreasonably sexy paladin, swamp gnome, or legally-not-evil cat. His PCs are much better now, the fire-fighting rat is very entertaining.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    Mostly because I'm sick of playing dudes. I grew up playing dudes and so many games today still make you play a dude. I want some fucking variety in my games!

  • Carcharodonna [she/her]
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    I used to have all kinds of excuses for this question, but look at me now lol