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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 703010" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I'd be very hesitant to introduce a sexual topic explicitly unless I knew none of my players would be uncomfortable.</p><p></p><p>I've never felt the need for a gay character in my campaign, but if you want one go right ahead. My suggestion would be hint at it as subtly as possible, and watch how your players react when it eventually dawns on them. If you can live with thier reaction, and no one seems offended, then you can advance the plot in whatever way you are planning to advance it.</p><p></p><p>One thing I have to ask is what do you think you are accomplishing by introducing a gay character? On a pretty basic level, a characters sexual oreintation is pretty boring and irrelevant. One of the reasons I've never felt the need for a gay character is I've never seen a need to introduce a character whose sexual oreintation primarily defined who they were. For all I know, some of the characters were gay and it just never came up. If you are going to make a person's sexuality front and center of a plotline, then I think you are going to need a pretty good reason. Sexual orientation itself itsn't a plot element. But acts of, jealousy, hatred, repression, opression, self-pity, self-repression, fear, ostracism, confusion, and so forth are. You can do that with or without adding a gay character, but if you think a gay character is going to add to the tension and provide a bit of an unexpected twist then go with it. </p><p></p><p>"OMG, I just figured it out.... Sir Franton wasn't having an affair with Lady Cornalish, he was having an affair with _Lord_ Cornalish..."</p><p></p><p>Or whatever.</p><p></p><p>As a side note, I've never actually explicitly investigated it, but I once played a CN PC who was probably bi-sexual, it just never came up. Given his philosophy on life, he probably would have seen no difference in male or female sexual relations, and I latter in a write up of the character hinted that he had been homosexually abused as a child. But, I certainly never worried about that aspect of his character, and I'm sure I would have wierded out everyone else in the group had I pushed it, and would have myself been wierded out if my DM or anyone else in the group suddenly started pushing it on me. It was merely another logical consequence that arose from his personality and history, among the many consequences that helped me decided how the character would react to any given situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 703010, member: 4937"] I'd be very hesitant to introduce a sexual topic explicitly unless I knew none of my players would be uncomfortable. I've never felt the need for a gay character in my campaign, but if you want one go right ahead. My suggestion would be hint at it as subtly as possible, and watch how your players react when it eventually dawns on them. If you can live with thier reaction, and no one seems offended, then you can advance the plot in whatever way you are planning to advance it. One thing I have to ask is what do you think you are accomplishing by introducing a gay character? On a pretty basic level, a characters sexual oreintation is pretty boring and irrelevant. One of the reasons I've never felt the need for a gay character is I've never seen a need to introduce a character whose sexual oreintation primarily defined who they were. For all I know, some of the characters were gay and it just never came up. If you are going to make a person's sexuality front and center of a plotline, then I think you are going to need a pretty good reason. Sexual orientation itself itsn't a plot element. But acts of, jealousy, hatred, repression, opression, self-pity, self-repression, fear, ostracism, confusion, and so forth are. You can do that with or without adding a gay character, but if you think a gay character is going to add to the tension and provide a bit of an unexpected twist then go with it. "OMG, I just figured it out.... Sir Franton wasn't having an affair with Lady Cornalish, he was having an affair with _Lord_ Cornalish..." Or whatever. As a side note, I've never actually explicitly investigated it, but I once played a CN PC who was probably bi-sexual, it just never came up. Given his philosophy on life, he probably would have seen no difference in male or female sexual relations, and I latter in a write up of the character hinted that he had been homosexually abused as a child. But, I certainly never worried about that aspect of his character, and I'm sure I would have wierded out everyone else in the group had I pushed it, and would have myself been wierded out if my DM or anyone else in the group suddenly started pushing it on me. It was merely another logical consequence that arose from his personality and history, among the many consequences that helped me decided how the character would react to any given situation. [/QUOTE]
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