I popped in to say pretty much what I now see sublimeclown has already said. One of the things I love about RPGs is playing a whole variety of characters who are not like me in various ways, including ones that are lighter or heavier, older or younger, or have different genders, sexualities, races or ages, as well as different abilities, politics and morals.
But, that said, if amongst all that variety I couldn’t play a middle aged woman (like me in RL) I’d see that as a lack. I’m particularly pleased, therefore, that we now have an age slider so I can create characters who are closer to me in age or older and though I’m still unlikely to create an exact self-insert, I do think it’s important in a game like this to allow us to create characters that have features in common with us, especially when we feel they’re in some way central to who we are or how society perceives us. But also so that other people can perhaps roleplay as characters who are like us, and maybe even as a result come to understand us and empathise with us more.
