Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

No need for that when you can just use the items already available to indicate your gender if you want.

Pawns, they're not just for Quest anymore...

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

I use the pawns for tracking gender. It's fairly helpful.

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

+6 bag of Munchkins, and +6 bag of Munchkin Babes - everyone picks a color, and a gender to start as, and upon being sex changed swaps out their figure for the other figure of the same color :)

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

Woops, beat to it by two different people; I didn't notice the second page

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

I always wondered why the level counters didn't have a spot for indicating your current gender (and possibly tracking the -5 penalty as well.)

And personally, I would find it advantageous to start the game as whatever the less populated gender is. If you're at the table with all guys, start as female. That way, if someone gets the broad sword, you're the only one who can use it, and it's easy for you to trade away the guy wire, etc.

Regards,
aero

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

Remember, the sex/gender involved in this discussion is for a fictional CHARACTER who happens to be controlled by a transgender PLAYER.
The character, in the context of the game rules, is constrained. This has no bearing on the player.

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

Since the default assumption is that the character's sex is the same as the player's, this could put some people in uncomfortable positions. I would encourage anyone who is teaching the game to keep that in mind.

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

And frankly, if a transgender player were told something along the lines of "the rules allow you to begin the game as whatever gender you choose, ...." they might find that, well, enlightened, perhaps, and may react positively to a game that treats changing gender as no big deal. Can't be sure, of course, being decidedly single gender myself, but I speculate that it shouldn't be an issue unless one's group is overly puritanical (and I don't suspect Munchkin would be the most popular game amongst groups like that.)

Regards,
aeronaut

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

Unless you run into the few people that believe that being constrained by gender rules is offensive. ie The people that try to raise their kid without ever refering to them by him or her.

http://jonathanturley.org/2009/07/03...derless-child/

"A Swedish couple has long opposed “the artificial construct of gender.” So, they have refused to disclose the gender of their child, who is being called Pop in the Swedish media. They are dressing Pop with dresses as well as non-dresses — and have given the child feminine and non-feminine hair styles alternatively. "

Re: Transgender Munchkin?
 

Wow, what a can of worms that is opening. Hope they are wealthy enough to afford the therapy that I suspect the kid will need when he/she hits puberty and beyond.

But this is way off topic. My apologies.

Peace.

Regards,
aeronaut