Any plans to allow the player to play a female instead of forcing them to play a certain gender

[Alexandra Lorular]

Curious, cause it just seems rare these days in games and I can't be the only one who finds it a bit upsetting to not be able to be myself.

[Dying pancake]

Considering...the character's body is rotting away, does gender really matter here?

[Alexandra Lorular]

I had no idea, but I would still prefer to be called Lady whatever, rather than Lord I literally did not look past character creation yet.

[Dying pancake]

If it helps, historically speak, women were called "lady" is because they cant be called lord. There were many women who prefer the title lord

[Kittah has Claws]

Originally posted by Alexandra Moldovia:

Curious, cause it just seems rare these days in games and I can't be the only one who finds it a bit upsetting to not be able to be myself.

I would like to know this too since it has not been answered yet.

[Cloud]

Considering the mc's state in game, he may be neither lord nor lady atm..
And lady is a title that females had in medieval times, but not with the political standing of a lord. Meaning females in that political position of a lord, which did exist as a matter of fact, were also called lord. Mostly out of their own wish, because lady was actually a term used for the wifes of lords, so I can guess that female lords didn't like being called lady. I mean, just think about a medieval situation with a new lord, one that hasn't seen your char till now. You come in,and get announced as Lady X from Y. The new lord would think "wth is this? Is the lord mocking me, sending his wife to do the talking?" I think that's the reason female lords prefered the term lord over the term lady.


So, to still accomodate you, in case you'd still dislike that, the dev would need to introduce a new character, with another level of standing in the realm, and therefore also change the complete storyline. Or, introduce a female version of the lord, call her lady (or baronesse, for a female on a relatively equal standing as a lord), and simply ignore medieval facts. Not that I care for either, playing a male, but that would be up to the dev to decide. And, considering the game is still in early access, I'd guess that the devs will at least finish the game with the actual main char, before even considering such a huge change.
If it helps you though, England has, even to this day, the so called "House of Lords", and more than 1/3 of the members are females.

[Flakkandi Vetr]

The term lady was mostly given to a woman who was basically in the "possession" of a person high in court. The term lord was a person of political importance. There were many women that were lords. Just as there were women Jarls. They didn't call them jarlesses. king and queen exempt, many titles were not consigned to gender roles per say but how much political or monetary power you had where as some were meant for a subservience perspective of women to diminish power as well. Even some with the title Lady had power, but were widowed and that power was still supplemented to a gender role or a relative. You have to understand when thinking about historical statements and time eras, you have to take away the modernization of the way we think.

[Pura]

Really appreciate the discussion on women and roles of power in medieval societies! :D

For the sake of the game and player enjoyment, we're not opposed to making it an option to play as a lady. It wasn't done so to begin with probably due to ideas of having the playable character be more fixed and not so customisable.

With that said, it's sadly not just a matter of adding a button into the game. The prologue will likely require slight alteration, we'll need to map out all the places in the game's dialogue where the player's referenced as male and resolve those, and vast majority of the equippable armor models need slight adjustments to give support for female body type.

My humble apologies to all of you who are really bothered by the current lack of this option. I can't promise this will be something to be addressed soon as we're currently prioritising many other things, but it's not missing due to some strict vision from our side.

Thanks for the feedback!

[Alexandra Lorular]

Originally posted by Pura:

Really appreciate the discussion on women and roles of power in medieval societies! :D

For the sake of the game and player enjoyment, we're not opposed to making it an option to play as a lady. It wasn't done so to begin with probably due to ideas of having the playable character be more fixed and not so customisable.

With that said, it's sadly not just a matter of adding a button into the game. The prologue will likely require slight alteration, we'll need to map out all the places in the game's dialogue where the player's referenced as male and resolve those, and vast majority of the equippable armor models need slight adjustments to give support for female body type.

My humble apologies to all of you who are really bothered by the current lack of this option. I can't promise this will be something to be addressed soon as we're currently prioritising many other things, but it's not missing due to some strict vision from our side.

Thanks for the feedback!

This is something I am glad to hear, and it gives me hope this will eventually be addressed. I Like the idea of the game, I just would of liked to play as myself, or rather something closer to myself. and a female option would go a long way to that.

[VeryLastKiss]

I understand the desire, but I don't think this is particularly important. Countless games force a player's gender for games to tell a certain story. I understand this story could likely be told either way, but it's so far along that the developers would have to go back through the entire game's dialogue with an extremely fine comb to pull out any time the player is mentioned as a "man" or "he" or "his" or etc. for such a trivial, unimportant change. Additionally, the player in the beginning would need to be a wife instead of a husband, with the player's spouse needing to be changes from a wife to a husband, and this would also need to be applied to any unreleased content.

I just don't believe this colossal task is even remotely necessary.

[WhY]

It would be a large task, but I think it's in line with the Runescape feel that the game's main selling point is (since Runescape had so much customization).
I'm glad it's on their radar, even though it's not a priority atm.

[Alexandra Lorular]

Originally posted by WhY:

It would be a large task, but I think it's in line with the Runescape feel that the game's main selling point is (since Runescape had so much customization).
I'm glad it's on their radar, even though it's not a priority atm.

This pretty much.

[Mimi]

Originally posted by Pura:

Really appreciate the discussion on women and roles of power in medieval societies! :D

For the sake of the game and player enjoyment, we're not opposed to making it an option to play as a lady. It wasn't done so to begin with probably due to ideas of having the playable character be more fixed and not so customisable.

With that said, it's sadly not just a matter of adding a button into the game. The prologue will likely require slight alteration, we'll need to map out all the places in the game's dialogue where the player's referenced as male and resolve those, and vast majority of the equippable armor models need slight adjustments to give support for female body type.

My humble apologies to all of you who are really bothered by the current lack of this option. I can't promise this will be something to be addressed soon as we're currently prioritising many other things, but it's not missing due to some strict vision from our side.

Thanks for the feedback!

hopefully this comes at some point! was really looking into it but I'll wait for then a female option is a thing. thanks for the response!

[Kamo Kraken]

I'm at a loss and I am not being flippant - I honestly do not understand?

"Playing as myself" to me means to make choices that align with who I am inside.

What I look like on the outside is so ... fleeting. And yes, in the real world there's a certain (varying) degree of influence my looks have. But at the same time, they don't define who I am; or at least not to the point that my inner perception of myself is based on that.

Perhaps it's an age thing? I'm in my late fifties and have gone through the usual phases women do ... and at some point you gotta figure out this "inner self" thing or your constantly changing body will really, really mess with you (at least that's my take on this).

Again, let me stress: I am expressing my own opinion , that I am baffled how important "accurate representation" seems to be for some. Because a huge part of why I love gaming is the very fact that I can look any way I want. If I could modify my body like this in the real world, I'd be waving around tentacles before you could croak out "Cthulhu".

Obviously, dev will do as dev pleases. And if a female model was always something he wanted to implement later down the road, why not. But if retroactively introducing a female cha means taking away time from developing the actual game, I must say for me that doesn't sound appealing. I'd rather get more playable content than a different set of jiggly bits.

But then again, I already bought the game ... so there's that.

[Freshairkaboom]

Well, you wouldn't be playing as yourself anyway, as you are not a rotting corpse I presume. I think every game allowing you to just "play as yourself" removes so many chances to add story to the character themselves. Or it slows down any narrative because you need to make like a dozen "paths" that the player can choose.

I wouldn't mind if this game had a female only protagonist. Or a leprechaun only protagonist. We're undead, I really don't want to see myself as that ever.

[Uncle Gamez]

Originally posted by Alexandra Lorular:

Curious, cause it just seems rare these days in games and I can't be the only one who finds it a bit upsetting to not be able to be myself.

It's a RPG with a well built MC. It doesn't give you a choice cos the character is written in that way and they reserve the right to keep it that way. now, that said, you can always try to make the MC look more feminine.
It''s not a game where you create your own hero, but one where the hero is already created.