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<blockquote data-quote="Panask" data-source="post: 2775022" data-attributes="member: 35448"><p>All my players are adults. Sexuality is rarely overt in the game, but characters (PCs and NPCs) sometimes flirt with each other, arrange assignations, or have dates. (Sometimes these activities tie into "exchange of infomration" roleplaying, with lots of Gather Information, Sense Motive, and Bluff, which is the kind of thing that can be important in my game with or without the romantic aspect.)</p><p></p><p>There are gay NPCs scattered throughout the campaign world, both in the current day and as a part of history and myth, including stories of god and mortals. Most of the religions in the world - and there's a LOT of them, religiona and myth being key interests of mine - are comfortable with gay couples, and some are quite willing to marry them; but there are also religions that are far less comfortable with the idea.</p><p></p><p>We've had very few gay PCs. Once PC was a priest of Sepia, the goddess of love (of the more whimsical sort), and the player played him as a bisexual hustler, which added a certain range of different interactions to the game. The player checked to make sure none of the rest of us were uncomfortable with this portrayal; none of us were.</p><p></p><p>I'm gay, but I've never played gay PCs. (One of my players pointed out that knowing how to play straight was a "Survival skill" for gay men in the real world, and sometimes it is.) Until now - my current character (one of my other players is DM'ing for a while) is a gay human male named Orestes, who is 1/8 satyr. He's also married to a woman, and has two small children. Orestes is a member of a highly respected family in his home town, and he married a friend, whose father had utterly disgraced HER family, in order to improve her status and position in the town. The kids further tie her to the family. In the real world, marriages of convenience between women (gay or straight) and gay men are more common than most people think, and children are often part of the arrangement.</p><p></p><p>Many years ago, before I came out (even to myself), a woman player in one of my first campaigns played a male fighter named Jerboa, who she played as fussy, huffy, and quite stereotypically gay, to comic effect - although his backstory, known only to me and her, was that he was simply an effeminate heterosexual, with a wife and child. She moved; we lost touch. Years later we happened to run into each other, and I mentioned (among the many other things that had been going on in my life) that I was gay.</p><p></p><p>She freaked! "I hope that... I mean, with Jerboa... were you insulted, or... I'm really sorry!"</p><p></p><p>I told her that, on my list of things to be worried about, this was really, really low. (She was, by the way, a wonderful person and a great player.)</p><p></p><p>Panask</p><p>Servitar to Baldur</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panask, post: 2775022, member: 35448"] All my players are adults. Sexuality is rarely overt in the game, but characters (PCs and NPCs) sometimes flirt with each other, arrange assignations, or have dates. (Sometimes these activities tie into "exchange of infomration" roleplaying, with lots of Gather Information, Sense Motive, and Bluff, which is the kind of thing that can be important in my game with or without the romantic aspect.) There are gay NPCs scattered throughout the campaign world, both in the current day and as a part of history and myth, including stories of god and mortals. Most of the religions in the world - and there's a LOT of them, religiona and myth being key interests of mine - are comfortable with gay couples, and some are quite willing to marry them; but there are also religions that are far less comfortable with the idea. We've had very few gay PCs. Once PC was a priest of Sepia, the goddess of love (of the more whimsical sort), and the player played him as a bisexual hustler, which added a certain range of different interactions to the game. The player checked to make sure none of the rest of us were uncomfortable with this portrayal; none of us were. I'm gay, but I've never played gay PCs. (One of my players pointed out that knowing how to play straight was a "Survival skill" for gay men in the real world, and sometimes it is.) Until now - my current character (one of my other players is DM'ing for a while) is a gay human male named Orestes, who is 1/8 satyr. He's also married to a woman, and has two small children. Orestes is a member of a highly respected family in his home town, and he married a friend, whose father had utterly disgraced HER family, in order to improve her status and position in the town. The kids further tie her to the family. In the real world, marriages of convenience between women (gay or straight) and gay men are more common than most people think, and children are often part of the arrangement. Many years ago, before I came out (even to myself), a woman player in one of my first campaigns played a male fighter named Jerboa, who she played as fussy, huffy, and quite stereotypically gay, to comic effect - although his backstory, known only to me and her, was that he was simply an effeminate heterosexual, with a wife and child. She moved; we lost touch. Years later we happened to run into each other, and I mentioned (among the many other things that had been going on in my life) that I was gay. She freaked! "I hope that... I mean, with Jerboa... were you insulted, or... I'm really sorry!" I told her that, on my list of things to be worried about, this was really, really low. (She was, by the way, a wonderful person and a great player.) Panask Servitar to Baldur [/QUOTE]
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