Gender

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Choosing Your Gender

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In UO Dark Ages, gender mainly affects your character's appearance, paperdoll, clothing options, and a few special creatures. Male and female characters have the same stats, skills, combat ability, crafting ability, and overall progression.

Male and Female Characters

Male Character | ------- | File:Male paperdoll.png | File:Female paperdoll.png | | | | | | | |

What Gender Does NOT Change

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  • Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence
  • Starting skills
  • Combat ability
  • Crafting ability
  • Skill gain speed
  • Character progression
  • Available classes or templates

Clothing Differences

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Female characters have access to the largest variety of appearance options. They may wear nearly all standard armor and clothing, plus several female-only outfits.

Male characters may wear all normal armor and clothing, but cannot wear:

  • Dresses
  • Skirts
  • Female leather armor
  • Female studded armor
  • Certain female robe and clothing variants
Male Clothing Example | ------- | File:Male armor example.png | File:Female dress example.png | | | | |

Gender-Specific Creatures

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There are two special creatures in Ultima Online that may only be tamed and ridden by one gender.

Female Only | ------- | File:Unicorn female.jpg | File:Kirin male.jpg | | | | | | | | | | |

A character of the opposite gender may still own one of these creatures if another player tames it first, but they cannot ride or tame it themselves.

Other Minor Differences

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A few monsters and events react differently to gender.

  • Semidar is known to deal additional damage to male characters.
  • Some NPC dialogue and holiday events may occasionally have different text depending on your gender.
  • These differences are minor and do not significantly affect gameplay.

Which Gender Should You Choose?

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Choose whichever appearance and clothing style you prefer.

  • Choose Male if you want the traditional warrior or adventurer look, or if you want to ride a Ki-Rin.
  • Choose Female if you want more clothing options or the ability to ride a Unicorn.

For most players, the decision is almost entirely cosmetic.