What determines what gender you choose for your characters?

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Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My human monk identifies as a female dark elf and Sir Ken still refuses to give me a Guise so that my gender/race dysphoria can be resolved. This is not the 1940's and I refuse to adapt to your circle of perpetual misogyny Ken. Give me the guise

LoL.

[dbouya]

It's simple really.
All ogres are male
All trolls are male.
90-95% of iksar are male, there are no female iksar shaman's or necromancers or shadowknights or warriors but like 1% of iksar monks are female somehow.
All wood elves are female, 80% of high elves are female.
Erudites don't exist.
Humans get a 70/30 split.
All 90% of gnomes are male.
Halflings are about a 50/50 split.
Dwarves are 80% male. Only clerics can be female.

Personally I like making bards non-gnome casters clerics and druids female, everything else I'd probably roll male, although a bit part of that is ogres.

I think a lot of it for me at least comes down to some of the models being a lot better or worse than others in this game. Some of the heavier armors look a bit silly IMO on females due to their weird polygons. Shorter models don't really suffer this problem, and as someone else pointed out before neither do robes.