Is it weird that I made my protagonist a female lizard?

[Quadsword]

I know there's kind of a stigma about male gamers who pick the female gender for their custom characters in RPGs.

I knew I wanted to make a lizard for my protagonist, but I love the designs of the female lizards so much I just had to have one in my party.

[Averagedog]

Why feel shame? It is all a fantasy anyways. Some guys like girl characters simply because the camera angle allows them to look at the well sculpted asses of female characters. Other's simply want to craft a story where a woman in a heavily patriarichal society can become a hero for all despite the differences in physical attributes traditionally expected of a fantastical hero. More are motivated by creating their own story even though it has rails. Why not get into the role as far as you can?

In RPGs, you can be anyone or anything sometimes outside of the bounds of the world or setting the game was created upon. Why should you be worried about anyone judging you in a single player experience?

[Hobocop]

Not weird at all. My preferred custom character in this game is a female lizard since its a combination not covered by the origin characters and this particular combination has unique interactions with some NPCs. Plus, female lizards look great, lizards have some of the best armor designs, and the custom female voice sets are all pretty good.

[Boneyard Bob]

No, but what do I know? I've got a tree growing out of my head that talks to me. His name's Herbert.

Just kidding. His name is Bob.

[it's a gabe]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

I know there's kind of a stigma about male gamers who pick the female gender for their custom characters in RPGs.

Huh? I'm honestly not aware of this. If anything, I see men playing as women more often than they play as men (cuz you know, sexy outfits and bewbs and whatnot). And I've been criticized for playing as fashionable skinny short men, especially when I want them to wear skimpy outfits. Wasn't that much of a problem in FFXIV cuz nearly everyone who played as a male mi'qote wore skimpy glamour, but a lot of people were bothered in PSO2 when I managed to do a good job at making my character look fem and sexy.

There's nothing weird about playing as the opposite sex, anyway. Even if some men do it for the "plot," it's still not weird. Just not that pleasant when they think every game out there should be Scarlet Blade, or when they mock you for not being so horny that you gotta look at your avatar's butt at all times. No joke, but I have seen a lot of men say they refuse to play as male characters because they don't want to stare at a man's butt. Talk about insecurity, amirite? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Valrynn the Dragoness]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

I know there's kind of a stigma about male gamers who pick the female gender for their custom characters in RPGs.

I knew I wanted to make a lizard for my protagonist, but I love the designs of the female lizards so much I just had to have one in my party.

Youre in a game with friends or alone. If they hate you for it you need new friends.

Youre not annoying anyone with a female character so why not? Its your game, craft it to how you want and enjoy it

[No' Name]

Pretty sure being an Elf, of any kind would be considered worse.... You know... since "Cannibalism"... Thankfully, the game does has a justifiable means to in "some what".

I would find no particular reason being a female lizard bad.

In General, if I have no Lizard in my party, I make someone (mainly Fane), use the faceripper, or permanent one whatever it's called again... turn into a lizard form. This is mainly due to their abilities.

My first playthrough, I ha Red Prince in my party, and he was badass. Can't imagine a female version of that would be anything less than badass.

That's just my opinion. I'm glad Larian gave us so many choices between races. And I sincerely hope that Baldur's Gate 3 gives us the options of custom characters, and sticks incredibly true to "Dungeons and Dragons", allowing us to pick from even more variety of races.

It's amazing what races/classes people can come up, and makes games all the more interesting.

[bloodymonarch]

Originally posted by Humor:

Pretty sure being an Elf, of any kind would be considered worse.... You know... since "Cannibalism"... Thankfully, the game does has a justifiable means to in "some what".

I would find no particular reason being a female lizard bad.

In General, if I have no Lizard in my party, I make someone (mainly Fane), use the faceripper, or permanent one whatever it's called again... turn into a lizard form. This is mainly due to their abilities.

My first playthrough, I ha Red Prince in my party, and he was badass. Can't imagine a female version of that would be anything less than badass.

That's just my opinion. I'm glad Larian gave us so many choices between races. And I sincerely hope that Baldur's Gate 3 gives us the options of custom characters, and sticks incredibly true to "Dungeons and Dragons", allowing us to pick from even more variety of races.

It's amazing what races/classes people can come up, and makes games all the more interesting.

I'm secretly low key hyped as hell for Baldurs Gate 3.

As for OP, play what you want. I am currently lone wolfing a bonehead + fane. I have a simultaneous game going with a custom male lizard wizard + Beast.

Even though I like women, I usually only play with males in my party because I feel a bit more at home with the idea of men in combat.

[Zara]

I've seen some of the people the OP is talking about, getting all insecure about men playing female characters, just ignore them when it happens and play what you want.

Personally I play female characters in games 90% of the time because most games don't have good looking facial hair options for men (imo), so I'd rather have a good looking female over a facial hairless/bad facial hair male character. Well that and I'm a guy, why would I want to play as a guy? By the same the logic I try VERY hard not to play as a human because IRL, I am human, so why would I want to play one in a video game?

[Chaoslink]

If you knew how many of my games I've used at least one of my main characters as a female lizard...

[BarbieGirl]

My first playthrough I did a male elf and kept him in as little armor as possible because I liked looking at him. I am now in another playthrough and I am Sebille. I love the different role playing. The only good looking men in the game are the elfs. They really did not do a good job on making cute guys.

[Shellbie]

I think that as we get older, we stop seeing ourselves in the protagonists that we play in games. It is a function of self identity, as we mature we are more comfortable with ourselves and our beliefs. In our youth, we lack that "sense of self", so we attempt to fill that void by imprinting ourselves on the protagonist. It is a form of self-centered reality, we cannot relate to others' perspectives, hence the self-projection. When we are younger we just don't have enough life experience to role-play as someone else, or make decisions based on what someone else may think/feel.

Now, as we mature, we get more experience with seeing the perspective of others, and gain a greater "sense of self". This allows us to step outside of ourselves, in other words to "walk in someone else's shoes."

[BarbieGirl]

Originally posted by Shellbie:

I think that as we get older, we stop seeing ourselves in the protagonists that we play in games. It is a function of self identity, as we mature we are more comfortable with ourselves and our beliefs. In our youth, we lack that "sense of self", so we attempt to fill that void by imprinting ourselves on the protagonist. It is a form of self-centered reality, we cannot relate to others' perspectives, hence the self-projection. When we are younger we just don't have enough life experience to role-play as someone else, or make decisions based on what someone else may think/feel.

Now, as we mature, we get more experience with seeing the perspective of others, and gain a greater "sense of self". This allows us to step outside of ourselves, in other words to "walk in someone else's shoes."

In other words as I always say, I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ what anyone thinks, I just do what I want.

[bloodymonarch]

Originally posted by Shellbie:

I think that as we get older, we stop seeing ourselves in the protagonists that we play in games. It is a function of self identity, as we mature we are more comfortable with ourselves and our beliefs. In our youth, we lack that "sense of self", so we attempt to fill that void by imprinting ourselves on the protagonist. It is a form of self-centered reality, we cannot relate to others' perspectives, hence the self-projection. When we are younger we just don't have enough life experience to role-play as someone else, or make decisions based on what someone else may think/feel.

Now, as we mature, we get more experience with seeing the perspective of others, and gain a greater "sense of self". This allows us to step outside of ourselves, in other words to "walk in someone else's shoes."

This does not, however, mean that if you're young and a roleplayer that you are more mature than your age. It could also be that you lack confidence in yourself or full on dislike yourself so you want to be other people.

[AsianGirlLover]

It’s their legs, isn’t it? You just can’t get enough of those lizard legs.

[bloodymonarch]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

It’s their legs, isn’t it? You just can’t get enough of those lizard legs. :singingsheslime:

They sure are tasty. Now, where's my pepper? Ah, there it is. *stirs stew*