Poll
Question:
What gender do you see the Hero having?
Option 1: Male
Option 2: Female
CraigStern designed the Hero as a genderless character. All the dialogue based around this Hero allows players to treat this character as either male or female.
I nocticed some people refered to the Hero as a "he" or "him", while others refered to the Hero as "she" or "her". When you played the first two Telepath games, what gender did you see the Hero as?
I saw the Main as male. Perhaps because I'm a male too.
Yeah I saw the main as male because I'm a dude too.
In the first game, I thought the character was a chick based on what she was wearing.
In the second game, I thought the character was a dude, because I am a dude.
I always thought the character was a guy because he looked more like a boy than a girl.
same deal i thought he was a boy
In the first one, the main tells a drunk guard:
"Any *cough* girl..."
This seems to imply the main is a guy.
Well, the coughing implies that something in the sentence isn't true: is it the "girl," or is it the "any"? ;)
Quote from: CraigStern on March 13, 2010, 08:49:22 AM
Well, the coughing implies that something in the sentence isn't true: is it the "girl," or is it the "any"? ;)
Dang it craig stop messing with our minds ;D. Just tell us weither the main for chapter one and two was a girl or a guy
I remember that phrase coming up before and being applied to all genders- and depending on how you precieve the Main to be (guy/girl), the ensuing dialogue can be quite hilarious to read.
I also see the Main as a guy due to my gender, though I wouldn't mind playing as a female- 'tis the story that matters for me.
It's a guy. He acts like a guy. Also, in telepath rpg 2, you act like a boy in all your responses and Gamblin' Jack calls you kid. And, he's the kinda guy who wouldn't be friends with a girl. And, the character's got fairly short hair.
Well, Ersatz Man, to you the Main can be a guy, but, apparently, female members of the forums said (back in the day), that they certainly have no trouble identifying the Main as a girl. Gamblin' Jack's responses fit his character, who may easily not take a roughly 17 year old seriously or see him/her as a man or woman, yet. Hence the responses. About hair-do, well, that's really not much- a lot of women these days have short hair. Still, I guess in your fashion you have answered the question posed in the thead- you see the Main as a guy.
how come the hero can tell Griffin he is trying to score with Rahel if he is gender neutral
I am mostly pointing this out as a flaw-I really don't want a gay (literally) answer
Were talking about the hero of Telepath rpg's 1 and 2.
Though there could be another level of the story, Duvalier choosing a love interest between Rahel and a male teammate, like Griffin or the new spearman. :D
I wonder how the Cult would take that... :o
That certainly would be an unexpected twist! :) But that could be too much extra to add on.
Well, given that they are religious zealots, chances are they'll be conservative in many different ways, I suspect!
Methinks the hero is a transvestite.
/me thinks Hero is male
Brother at Academy states so and also Guy et co.
Nope, all the dialogue does not imply the Hero to be of either gender.
Quote from: Bromtaghon on June 08, 2010, 06:03:27 PM
Nope, all the dialogue does not imply the Hero to be of either gender.
Still I say Hero is male since I really doubt Shadowlings would have taken female to their army.
It actually works the other way. The shadowlings see no distinctions in humans, they are all equally inferior. So why would it matter that the main could be female?
Quote from: cx on June 09, 2010, 01:40:40 PM
Still I say Hero is male since I really doubt Shadowlings would have taken female to their army.
Anya (http://telepath.wikia.com/wiki/Anya) and Helena (http://telepath.wikia.com/wiki/Helena) were put on the Hero's team, while the Hero's team is part of the Shadowling Empire's Military.
Quote from: Barzul on June 09, 2010, 03:15:06 PM
It actually works the other way. The shadowlings see no distinctions in humans, they are all equally inferior. So why would it matter that the main could be female?
I could see shadowlings having a difficult time distinguishing genders, since Malis thought Set was half-shadowling.
Quote from: im2smart4u on June 10, 2010, 10:11:34 AM
Anya (http://telepath.wikia.com/wiki/Anya) and Helena (http://telepath.wikia.com/wiki/Helena) were put on the Hero's team, while the Hero's team is part of the Shadowling Empire's Military.
by hero's request and not exactly put, they just joined during missions.
Quote from: cx on June 10, 2010, 12:49:51 PM
Quote from: im2smart4u on June 10, 2010, 10:11:34 AM
Anya (http://telepath.wikia.com/wiki/Anya) and Helena (http://telepath.wikia.com/wiki/Helena) were put on the Hero's team, while the Hero's team is part of the Shadowling Empire's Military.
by hero's request and not exactly put, they just joined during missions.
So you admit that the Shadowling Empire allowed females to
join the military, so therefore it is possible for the Main to be female.
There isn't much to draw information from. Although I'd say the hero is male, I mean, there are very few to no feminine choices in conversation, I' am wrong of course, seeing as how some women would sometimes act as men would, but that's not the case here, is it?
Are there many overly masculine responses? I think its quite balanced.
That may be the case, but there aren't any of the generic "gentel" feminine lines for the Hero.
Although most people on this poll comment think that the Hero is a male, I think that it is a female. The first chapter dropped quite a few hints (Clothing, talking, et cetera), and I don't see anything wrong in TRPG2 about the hero being female.
Welcome to the forums, DarkGhostMatt!
Read the rules, use proper grammar and punctuation, play the games, share your ideas and enjoy your stay!
The Hero can be either. I saw it as a male because I'm male (I think). As for the clothing, you can't see it very well.
Well, either way the hero is "gender-selective", so to speak, and any internal between-human dialogue doesn't really point much to either- both a male and a female with such a character are plausible. Plus, as mentioned above, shadowlings simply view humans as "fleshlings", food, more or less, I doubt they'd care for their gender- in case of military, they're just interested in the Psy abilities and usefulness to the Queen (which sort of does bring the argument to an end- the Shadowlings revere a female, they only discriminate against Spriggats; Lola didn't seem in any way like an oppressed woman, and even if the Shadowling society is militaristic, think of the Amazons, so I think the society actually isn't really gender discriminating).
Well after playing the game and TPRPG Servants of God, I could conclude that the charecter is a Male because If you notice the similarities of Nameless one and the Hero in #2, you may become suspicious of his Identity. And with the explanation of the game on the game "The third Chapter in the Telepath RPG series seems Irrelevant to the others in the series... or does It!" I came to the assumption it may be possible for the character Nameless One to be the Same as the Hero Character in Telepath RPG 2, also considering some of the little background knowledge that Nameless One gives us about his past. Please do tell me if I may be onto Anything.
- Nameless
I'm pretty sure the Nameless One's gender has never been confirmed either, has it?
For more information, see the Nameless One thread that's probably floating around TSoG somewhere.
I've made another post on this in TSoG to compare both without going in between the posts.
I'm pretty sure that it (Nameless One's gender) has been positively identified as male (e.g. you don't refer to any woman, old or otherwise as "old codger", etc).
But let's bring this back on topic: when you played through TRPG 1 and 2, did you think of the Main as a "he" or as a "she" and why? (Forget not that the Main is intentionally "genderless", so the player adds on the gender as an extra during the play-through.)
I'm one of the 3 people who voted for female. I played TRPG 1 first and that avatar just seems far more female than male to me.
Make that four. I think the hero looks feminine. Plus, it's more interesting, to me anyway, to think of the hero as female.
Barzul, Kindle- have you tried playing through TRPG2 one more time and trying to imagine the Main as a male? If you did, was the playing experience any different, anything about the actions, the dialogues, etc? Or even if you didn't, any interestsing points to make about that?
Quote from: MikeW781 on March 28, 2010, 02:27:36 PM
how come the hero can tell Griffin he is trying to score with Rahel if he is gender neutral
I am mostly pointing this out as a flaw-I really don't want a gay (literally) answer
It's stated at the beginning that your character is a male.
The Hero of TRPG:SoG is male, yes, but this is a TRPG2 conversation.
Dialouge in TRPG2 is carefully worded to avoid giving the Hero a gender. I believe that the Hero was intended to remain genderless for a purpose.
someone asked about SoG
I understand, but the moment is over now.
I considered the hero to be a male in TRPG2. Although the hero looks like a female in TRPG1, I still called the hero a male.
i view the main char as a male simply because i am a mele and the char is designed to be gender neutral so that you can view the char as yourself in this situation and sequence of events right, so actualy i never viewed it specificaly as a male but me in that situation when im talking :-*
Please use proper grammar and standard english conventions. We aren't grammar nazis or anything, missing a capital here and there is no big deal, but that was really hard to understand.
Indeed, we are used to good grammar around here, so, if you please, use proper grammar and punctuation whenever possible.