Yeah, the problem with self-inserting into D&D characters is that you get personally affected by what happens to them and how they’re treated. It’s called “bleed”. Plus, if it’s a self-insert, you probably play them not too dissimilarly from how you act in real life, and they’re probably used to referring to that personality that they’re familiar with as a whatever pronoun they know it by.
I don’t often self-insert. This character is probably the most self-insert I’ve done in the 10 years I’ve been playing D&D and most of that is incidental (him being raised in a theocratic city was really just because the addition made his story more fun). The gender thing would just be nice, and it’s a pretty minor aspect of what your character is, I would think.
Besides, I think there’s always going to be aspects of the player that leak into the character, even if you don’t start off that way, it’s the nature of the game.
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Yeah, the problem with self-inserting into D&D characters is that you get personally affected by what happens to them and how they’re treated. It’s called “bleed”. Plus, if it’s a self-insert, you probably play them not too dissimilarly from how you act in real life, and they’re probably used to referring to that personality that they’re familiar with as a whatever pronoun they know it by.
I don’t often self-insert. This character is probably the most self-insert I’ve done in the 10 years I’ve been playing D&D and most of that is incidental (him being raised in a theocratic city was really just because the addition made his story more fun). The gender thing would just be nice, and it’s a pretty minor aspect of what your character is, I would think. Besides, I think there’s always going to be aspects of the player that leak into the character, even if you don’t start off that way, it’s the nature of the game.