Crimson847 wrote:I think it's weird that people would single out a proud trans character as being anachronistic or immersion-breaking in this particular case.
DashaBlade wrote:Crimson847 wrote:I think it's weird that people would single out a proud trans character as being anachronistic or immersion-breaking in this particular case.
Especially since in the tabletop setting, there are magic items that can change your gender.
Also, it's not anachronistic because Faerun (the world where Baldur's Gate exists) is a different planet, not medieval Earth. I would have thought the dragons and elves and beholders would have given that away, but I always ran D&D games as "It is the current year, but in a world with magic instead of advanced technology."
For the record, I don't give a flying fuck whether there's a trans character in a game, particularly not one in a game based on D&D. I've *played* characters who have had their gender switched, their alignment switched, and even have been transmogrified into an entirely different race (when an elf gets turned into a dwarf, it ain't pretty, let me tell ya). If one of my gaming group had as their backstory that they're questing for a magic item to turn them into (whatever), I'd allow it, because hey, it gives me a vague idea of a plotline we can do after the one I have planned. If someone wants to have as their backstory that they're questing for a cell phone, we can do that too. I'm easy.
Crimson847 wrote:That's nice for you, but personally I'd be less than pleased if a video game based on the Forgotten Realms setting featured a quest where you have to find Elminster's lost iPhone, and I don't think it would be unreasonable for others to be displeased either.
Crimson847 wrote:DashaBlade wrote:Crimson847 wrote:I think it's weird that people would single out a proud trans character as being anachronistic or immersion-breaking in this particular case.
Especially since in the tabletop setting, there are magic items that can change your gender.
Also true in the video game in question.
http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Girdl ... Femininity
For these gamers, it's only censorship if they liked what got removed. It's only free expression if they agree with it.
Zevran wrote:Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speeds can kill.
rowdyrodimus wrote:If there is a reason for the characters sex (and by that I mean gay or straight, cis or trans, that type stuff) as an integral part of the story, then great write it in and make it a part of the character. If it's not important to the story then it's just being done because they know it will get extra buzz.
TheSyrupNugget wrote:In Mass Effect, what's stopping you from (for example) deciding that, in your mind, Shep was female at birth and transitioned prior to the story?
It's not like most of these character creation systems let you personally mold the character's genitals, or have "conforming to a rigid gender binary" as an important backstory staple.
complaining about there being no "trans" options in a character creator (which... what would that entail, really?) just seems like a reach to me.
Grimstone wrote:I imagine such a feature is a lot less likely to be included in game(s) if nobody asks/complains for it. As for what would such a feature entail? Well, I'm not trans so I really don't know. Maybe it would mean that in a game with detailed character customization options that traditionally male/female traits aren't locked to the character's assigned gender.
gisambards wrote:This added feature effectively allows you to create a woman with a penis or a man with a vagina, without explicitly having to tell you that's what you're doing.
With more story-driven games, however, I'm still not sure what it would bring.
The transgenderism would add so little, I might as well just create a (presumably) cis character and pretend they're trans, if that was what I wanted.
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