I just press random character and adjust class and race. (And sex hahahaha #malecharacters)

If I ever created a female one, should would be a crafter, because of reasons.

Female, with 7 female toons, and 1 male. I guess I prefer to be able to identify with the character more ^.^

Male, because I'm a guy and I feel like it's easier for me to RP as a male. I'd never be able to pull off the complexities of RPing a woman. It'll probably end up as a bad caricature or something.

Most of the characters that I roll have been female, but I do have a couple males that I've started playing more often. For example, my dragonknight tank is a male. Not because I am male myself, but because the values I was raised with associate strength and brute force, which fits my ideal of what a tank should be/look like physically. I generally go in with an idea of what my character will be, which shapes what it will look like physically. I don't tend to model any characters off of myself, but I do like to make them look nice according to my own standards of beauty (and sometimes a bit of ugliness is situationally appropriate). I don't do much background story, but I have taken to applying the many personalities that I've acquired over the past year and that's opened up a whole new way for me to express and personify my toons. It's pretty awesome.

I tend to use my female characters more often, so it initially surprised me how many players automatically assume every other player is male. (My username is fairly feminine (by USA standards), and some of the friends I've made playing this game have said that it was a dead giveaway.) Still, I get a chuckle out of it when someone says "thanks, man" or "bro" or something along those lines.

Whether someone is really a man or woman doesn't to me nearly as much as whether they know the mechanics of the dungeon or trial we're about to run together. Having been on the receiving end of questions about my gender, I've determined that it's not really any business of mine what gender someone is unless they offer that information willingly. I've been asked before what my gender is by random people in dungeons or zone or what have you – people that I hadn't written more than ten words to and never would again – and it never did anything positive for me or them; those questions just made me feel uncomfortable and in some cases, vaguely threatened or pressured and spurred me to get out of whatever situation got that question asked.

*edit* admittedly, I have never really experienced any roleplay in ESO, so my perspective is likely not the same as that of a player who presents him or herself in character at all times. I'm not certain how transparent roleplayers in the ESO community are expected to be.

Stania wrote: »

I'm a woman and pretty much in any rpg I play as a male character. My guildmates were very surprised when they found out via Discord that I'm a gal irl. I have been suggested to use an appearance token to change my char to a female, but I don't see why I should do that.

I have a female gaming buddy irl who does this as well. She is also very particular about who she speaks to in guilds on voice chat as well.

Thankfully, the guildies are for the most part, adults ... where it counts. :-)

I have 12 toons... I started by alternating gender on creation so I had 6 male and 6 female (in the name of equality). After many deleted toons I now have 4 male and 8 female... it just happened that way though. I role play all my characters and so as they die and are replaced by others it is based upon the stories I've written