I think of all the groups that I have played with over the years, there are only two where there wasn't any cross-playing and each of those exceptions had nothing to do with any rules or anything, as far as I knew no one wanted to cross-play while we played together. There were even times when it was almost impossible for someone not to due to using premade characters and then there being more players than predicted playing. I will say that one of the two was the only mixed-gender group I've played with, which may have been a factor, though that was the group where there was quite a bit of joking about there being a cursed item that would change the gender of one of the characters in the group.
I will say with the greater anonymity of on-line role-playing games seems to lead to a greater amount of cross-playing. I know that in local games I play I do so less than half of the time, but when it comes to on-line I almost have an official policy of exact 50%.
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Date: 2013-05-03 03:49 pm (UTC)I will say with the greater anonymity of on-line role-playing games seems to lead to a greater amount of cross-playing. I know that in local games I play I do so less than half of the time, but when it comes to on-line I almost have an official policy of exact 50%.