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<blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 2749058" data-attributes="member: 514"><p>Monte,</p><p></p><p>I wanted to thank you for this. I remember running through a little of ToEE when I was a teenager, and I seem to recall at the time there were jokes about Rufus and Burne's sexuality. </p><p></p><p>When I ran RttToEE I played up their relationship with some humour (I am gay, as is one of the players). I remember when the party were in the Welcome Wench, possibly the first night of the first campaign day, I had R&B having dinner at the table. I remember describing it as a table with a candle, a flower in a vase, etc, all being set up for a "romantic evening", even though the rest of the tavern was your usual D&D type. </p><p></p><p>I always played up the warrior as the strong, silent type, and the wizard as the one who like the public displays, the "we" in conversations, etc, while his boyfriend silently put up with these affectations. It was a lot of fun. (also reminded me of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of Hamlet - couldn't remember which one was Rufus and which was Burne, etc).</p><p></p><p>A little off topic: It was interesting to find excuses during the RttToEE campaign for R&B, and the other Homlett elites, to not get involved in the adventure; R&B spent much of the campaign simply not believing the characters, claiming that they would be aware if the temple were rising again; Cannoness Y'Dey would constantly remind the PCs that she had been involved last time, and that things were much tougher then, while belittling the PC's achievements, etc (boy did they hate her!).</p><p></p><p>Back to the main topic - I rarely mention the sexuality of NPCs when I'm running a game. It rarely comes up at all, and although I've opened the door for characters to have romance, etc, it's not really been taken up (there was an instance during RttToEE where the Paladin was trying to purchase two matching rings as components for Shield Other, which he intended on casting on the (female) mage. The shopkeeper, who was familiar to them, leapt to the conclusion that they were engagement rings. When he congratulated the Paladin on his upcoming nuptuals, the paladin decided that perhaps the wizard would also think the ring was an engagement ring, and therefore he would have to propose to her. He got on his knee to ask her and was promptly smacked over the back of the head by a very embarassed wizard.</p><p></p><p>I remember a couple of instances where the PCs have found themselves being hit on by members of the same sex, but this was usually done for humour value (one instance where a PC was being berated by someone for flirting with the berator's wife - the PC then declared (falsly, I believe) that the character was in fact gay. The Berator was taken aback for a moment, and then said "I'm sorry, we seem to have gotten off on the wrong foot, could we start again? And then smiled knowingly at the PC, while offering to shake hands - it was very funny, and the PC had to feign interest in the NPC for some time).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, enough from me,</p><p></p><p>Duncan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Duncan Haldane, post: 2749058, member: 514"] Monte, I wanted to thank you for this. I remember running through a little of ToEE when I was a teenager, and I seem to recall at the time there were jokes about Rufus and Burne's sexuality. When I ran RttToEE I played up their relationship with some humour (I am gay, as is one of the players). I remember when the party were in the Welcome Wench, possibly the first night of the first campaign day, I had R&B having dinner at the table. I remember describing it as a table with a candle, a flower in a vase, etc, all being set up for a "romantic evening", even though the rest of the tavern was your usual D&D type. I always played up the warrior as the strong, silent type, and the wizard as the one who like the public displays, the "we" in conversations, etc, while his boyfriend silently put up with these affectations. It was a lot of fun. (also reminded me of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of Hamlet - couldn't remember which one was Rufus and which was Burne, etc). A little off topic: It was interesting to find excuses during the RttToEE campaign for R&B, and the other Homlett elites, to not get involved in the adventure; R&B spent much of the campaign simply not believing the characters, claiming that they would be aware if the temple were rising again; Cannoness Y'Dey would constantly remind the PCs that she had been involved last time, and that things were much tougher then, while belittling the PC's achievements, etc (boy did they hate her!). Back to the main topic - I rarely mention the sexuality of NPCs when I'm running a game. It rarely comes up at all, and although I've opened the door for characters to have romance, etc, it's not really been taken up (there was an instance during RttToEE where the Paladin was trying to purchase two matching rings as components for Shield Other, which he intended on casting on the (female) mage. The shopkeeper, who was familiar to them, leapt to the conclusion that they were engagement rings. When he congratulated the Paladin on his upcoming nuptuals, the paladin decided that perhaps the wizard would also think the ring was an engagement ring, and therefore he would have to propose to her. He got on his knee to ask her and was promptly smacked over the back of the head by a very embarassed wizard. I remember a couple of instances where the PCs have found themselves being hit on by members of the same sex, but this was usually done for humour value (one instance where a PC was being berated by someone for flirting with the berator's wife - the PC then declared (falsly, I believe) that the character was in fact gay. The Berator was taken aback for a moment, and then said "I'm sorry, we seem to have gotten off on the wrong foot, could we start again? And then smiled knowingly at the PC, while offering to shake hands - it was very funny, and the PC had to feign interest in the NPC for some time). Anyway, enough from me, Duncan [/QUOTE]
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