IKR? There's a reason why there's the joke of "MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls" - Back when I used to play as a female mage in WoW it was just to soak free shit out of thirsty dudes who would pony up loot just because OMG A GURL. I guess it wasn't because of that or the fact that I'd rather stare at a female avatar's ass for umpteen hours while playing. Nope, apparently I was thinking about lopping off my junk and prancing around in makeup.
85 lb middle aged woman = male Tauren hunter. Because it's fun to be a big guy with a big gun. I also had an alt who was a wispy female Blood Elf warrior with a big axe, who had red hair, because I thought it would be amusing.
Fantasy games are for playing out fantasies .. right? Who wants to be "themselves" in a fantasy game?
On top of that, it's baffling to me that anyone would scream for NPCs or PCs that are classified as "trans" in a fantasy world that's high-magic, because it's a short jump to assume that there would be magic in said world that could flip someone's gender from M-to-F or F-to-M. Hell, D&D had magical items that would do that years ago. Granted, those were usually treated as "cursed" items because they would make the PC's life hell until they could either get new armor and weapons or get the curse removed, but who's to say that a character with dysmorphia wouldn't just hunt down one of those so they could flip permanently? A savvy DM could even make that the nature of a quest for the players if they were so inclined.
As far as PC go, if you're a dude waning to play as a wispy female elf, go for it. Woman that wants to play as a beefy male dwarf berserker? You do you. You can pick your gender from the jump, so be what you want to be. That's the whole point of something fantastic in nature - you make it all up as you go.
Go play Cyberpunk and equip yourself with a retractable cyber-dick, I guess. You know they're going to lose their shit even more than they already have over that game once it finally drops.
IKR? There's a reason why there's the joke of "MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls" - Back when I used to play as a female mage in WoW it was just to soak free shit out of thirsty dudes who would pony up loot just because OMG A GURL. I guess it wasn't because of that or the fact that I'd rather stare at a female avatar's ass for umpteen hours while playing. Nope, apparently I was thinking about lopping off my junk and prancing around in makeup.
85 lb middle aged woman = male Tauren hunter. Because it's fun to be a big guy with a big gun. I also had an alt who was a wispy female Blood Elf warrior with a big axe, who had red hair, because I thought it would be amusing.
Fantasy games are for playing out fantasies .. right? Who wants to be "themselves" in a fantasy game?
On top of that, it's baffling to me that anyone would scream for NPCs or PCs that are classified as "trans" in a fantasy world that's high-magic, because it's a short jump to assume that there would be magic in said world that could flip someone's gender from M-to-F or F-to-M. Hell, D&D had magical items that would do that years ago. Granted, those were usually treated as "cursed" items because they would make the PC's life hell until they could either get new armor and weapons or get the curse removed, but who's to say that a character with dysmorphia wouldn't just hunt down one of those so they could flip permanently? A savvy DM could even make that the nature of a quest for the players if they were so inclined.
As far as PC go, if you're a dude waning to play as a wispy female elf, go for it. Woman that wants to play as a beefy male dwarf berserker? You do you. You can pick your gender from the jump, so be what you want to be. That's the whole point of something fantastic in nature - you make it all up as you go.
Edwin/Edwina from BG2 was so freaking hilarious.
I had both female and male characters. I am so confused, what am I suppose to do now? Get a legos penis or something?
Go play Cyberpunk and equip yourself with a retractable cyber-dick, I guess. You know they're going to lose their shit even more than they already have over that game once it finally drops.
The real reason is because you and every straight male would prefer to look at a hot female character as opposed to a male one.