In Might and Magic 2, some enemies are immune to the physical attacks of male or female characters. My question is, if a character is neither male or female, do their attacks work on such enemies?

Similarly, the place where you increase Personality is gendered; one spot requires an all-male party, and the other requires an all-female party. How does that work with a non-binary character in the party?

This question isn't just academic; in other versions, one of the recruitable NPCs, Flailer, has a sex of something like Neutral. For whatever reason, in the DOS version, it seems that their sex is incorrectly listed as female, though the text introducing them still describes them as not being either a man or a woman.

So, how does the game handle this case?

Why not try it and find out?

1. I don't have the game installed at the moment.

2. For the PC version, I would actually need to hack the save file (something that I *have* done in games before), as, as I mentioned, the developers messed up and made Flailer female in the PC version.

(Note that 1 is actually the bigger blocker for me at the moment.)

If I had to guess, I would say that neutral gender characters could attack both male-immune and female-immune enemies, but the spots requiring all-male or all-female parties would not work if there's a neutral gender character in the party. That's assuming that the game makes a simple check for characters' gender. Let's say 0 is female, 1 is male, 2 is neutral. If an enemy is immune to 0 or 1, 2 should still work. Similarly if a location requires all party members to to 0 or to be 1, then it won't work if one character is 2.

But that's also assuming that the developers didn't make special cases for neutral gender in these situations. Which is probably why you're asking in the first place! For example, maybe the location requiring an all-female party is actually programmed as "no males" rather than "only females", in which case a party of women and neutrals would still work.

So I guess this post is completely unhelpful, and someone has to test it out.