I'm interested to see the result of this. I'm female. I just realized that a lot of posters who I thought were female based on their picture, but are actually male because that is their character. Probably rather naive of me, but interesting.

Never trust internet avatars. Never.

I thought we rid ourselves of this attitude years ago.

In my family , My wife and I play, as do my son and three daughters

It's easy to think that way; I used to think the same way once upon a time. But you get used to it on the internet where no one is what they seem most of the time. Plus, I'm a man with a woman as my avatar on these forums, so I'm proof of that whole "more than meets the eye" idea.

Yes, and some posters who are female have a male avatar.

I also tend to picture people as their avatar despite knowing better, and even more funny, my avatar influences how I write. With my current I feel like being serene and serious and write wise and deep things all the time. Maybe it's a good self-defense against posts that would have provoked me otherwise

I sincerely hope you have more than one copy of the game. I couldn't imagine myself sharing Skyrim with five other people... at least not the first few months after it came out.

I can relate to the writing part, since my avatar is a vampire and I feel the need to be dark and mysterious. But as far as picturing people as their avatar, I don't really do that. Does that mean you would picture my vampire on a computer typing as me?

I am female and I love RPG games (and looked like my avatar before I dyed my hair bright red)