Everyone hears jokes about gender bending magic in games, but have you ever actually encountered it?

Everyone hears jokes about gender bending magic in games, but have you ever actually encountered it?

I'm playing a genderbent warlock. They were a guy until an encounter with a capricious fairy, and along with the boon of power they also got a full body makeover they hadn't exactly asked for. Mostly played for comedy so far, it's an amusing element to the game.

Yes. The party found a chest full of treasure, magic boots, belt of giant strength, gauntlets, enough stuff for 5/6 of the party.
I played a cleric and was about to take the belt we identified as belt of giant strength, but I gave it to the fighter because I could just cast spells or whatever.

Fighter takes it, we go into combat, it triggers all of our cursed items, and the belt was a belt of gender reversal.
Everybody got fucked over but me.
The fighter was surprised and he thought it was funny.

Game ended in a tpk a few weeks later.

My tiefling warlock just died and, as part of a bargain with his Great Old One patron, came back to life in the body of a female human. He now has a paranoid obsession with using Disguise Self to keep his new form hidden. Not much has happened with it yet, but I hope I don't start to get put in some shady situations.

My group (which happens to be comprised of people I know and am good friends with) ran a campaign where we were stranded in a standard fantasy setting as ourselves. Our GM statted us, exaggerating our skills and our flaws as necessary. I was a Bard.
One of the neat gimmicks of the campaign was all of us got a powerful magic item at start, which had the potential to be both super useful and super crippling. Mine was a set of hand wraps that essentially had a perils of the warp table. One time they spawned an evil clone of me, with all of my stats, spells, and gear: the hand wraps included. The GM rolled off-table every few in game days for the effects of the clone's hand wraps, and unbeknownst to us, he rolled a gender-bender spell. When next I encountered my evil twin in a daemon-plane of ash and ruin, we fought until my twin fell, developing brain damage (therefore and ergo, amnesia). I gave her a new name and made it my goal to teach her to be myself as I wish I had been. If we ever pick up the campaign again, I'm going to make her so fucking pure.

The Tomb of Horrors' had the doorway of reversal, so almost every party that's been through that thing has had that one guy who's primarily searching the dungeon for that to slyly get their magical realm in there.

>find artist twitter in search of source
>find older tweet with sketch of this image
>"30% of adult male elves have tits."
Fucking ExHentai doesn't even have the doujin with this elf in it.

What I'm surprised I haven't seen is a fantasy setting where genderchange/shapechange is common enough for the wealthy to treat forms like fashionable clothing. Think of the dynamic of morphs as malleable identity in Eclipse Phase. Why couldn't a similar attitude emerge towards polymorphing?

The Reincarnation spell in D&D did this a few times to our characters. It wasn't even a magical realm. We just thought that the new body's gender would be as random as it's race, so we always roll for it.

Once, the DM was trying to cater to a trans player. To his infinite credit he decided he wasn't gonna stop the entire party to make his character a self insert and laughed the idea off.

Full simsense VR porn in Shadowrun.
Everyone has at least tried sex as the other gender there. No exeptions.
Anyone who wouldn't do it when it's basically as easy as watching Pornhub today, would be really strange and a celibate tier.

I played an Eberron-style changeling once who was fully comfortable in either male or female form, though she was "naturally" female.

Because you're one common spell or spell-like effect away from losing all your extra polymorph effects and becoming just whatever you were originally. That doesn't really happen in EP.

>That moment when you're playing what amounts to Togusa from GitS in a Shadowrun game and you just got called for your playing a normie.

Well, this is awkward.

Have I encountered gender bending in an adventure? 4 words: Tomb of fucking Horrors.

I was 14 when my cousin ran this thing. My character was the only survivor but we didn't succeed. He went in loaded for bear... she came out completely bare.

She struggled her naked self to the nearest city, swiped clothing hanging to dry, convinced friendly npc's she was actually the wizard who left for adventure a few days before. Losing "stuff" wasn't nearly the big deal it is these days. Item Saving Throws were a thing so every item was seen as temporary. She was more interested in assembling a new team (the other players were rerolling) so we could dispel the magic that had changed him into her than concerned about her stuff being lost.

It ultimately didn't matter all that much. Male/Female was an entry on the character sheet that made about the same difference as hair color. We were young teens at the time so there were some snickers when people remembered... usually when it came time to get rooms at the Inn and my character would not bunk with men.

"Har har! I forgot Devin has boobs."

I'm . These days, i'd agree. Back then, I had no clue what to expect...

Incidentally, it did end up delving into my magical realm... sorta. The poor girl caught stark naked was actually it... but, at the time, I think I was too young to realize. At that age (14, I think), a strong breeze could cause a boner so EVERYTHING was a magical realm.

There was a wizard who had several backup bodies, as well as a few test bodies for his sapient service golem (to make sure that going into a backup wouldn't destroy your brain), which he obviously made into a cute girl.

The party destroyed all his personal backups and 'killed' him. The party didn't see through the "strange naked girl's" ruse.

He did eventually get back into his preferred body type, though.

Baldur's Gate 2

There is a player in my group who was playing a female tengu monk. One reincarnate spell later, and *he* is showing us how the cat-man do. Because he is now a cat man. And a male, man. Player is a girl.

Yep, several times in different games and systems. I never had it happen to my character but I normally play women anyways. Once, it happened to an edgy "crossplaying is gay" guy, it was some karmic justice.

Yes, there was one guy who always wanted to play a girl, and my secondary-school group mercilessly teased him for it. He eventually killed himself in University, and was probably a closeted homosexual. (It's a crime punishable by jail time in my country.)

Yep greatest magic item ever.

Had weird creepy dude playing a little girl summoner. He found a belt, cursed him into man-hood.
Didn't have to put up with his weird little girl fetishist anymore. Truly one of the best items ever implemented.

This is the best use of it I can think of

Saitoh a best

>It's a crime punishable by jail time in my country.

Your country is awful.

bump

I didn't know they allowed DnD in Saudi Arabia.

Probably most like closeted trans.

>warhammer fantasy
>dwarf slayer puts on unidentifiable belt which we think is a belt of giant strength
>becomes a dwarf-woman
>can't take it off, has to live with it for a while, looks for a way to get rid of it
>after some thinking realizes that women can't lose their honour in dwarfen society/don't become slayers
>decides that he does not have to stay a slayer since he's a woman now
>opens up a tavern, changes careerpath to innkeeper

We're running a kind of home brewed psychological thriller where every character has a dark secret they dont want to come to light. I'm playing a neutral good Asmir Outsider pact Warlock who's patron may or may not be the king in yellow, but is certainly a kindly old playwright. As he gains levels he's slowly turning female due to his deepest and darkest desire becoming manifest. He's doing a good job hiding the effects so far, but the compound effects of the slowburn transformation, paranoia of the secret getting out, and the impending level up are going to break him.

Now that's an ending to a character arc.