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I tried to ask this same thing on the offical WOTC mature boards, but a lack of any mature response promted me to ask here. I am trying to collect a number of encounters something in tune with the one in Book of Erotic Fantasy. They run the gament from totally non-sexual to bizarely so. I would like to collect some based soley on the premise of homosexual characters.
A couple from BOEF go along the lines of "A gay paladin is ousted from his order and asks the party to help him regain his status." Another is "A male wizard asks a male party member to aggree to a legal union, promissing titles, magic items, and power." I would like to collect 100 or so events and encounters that are something along those lines, ranging for nonsexual to sexual, personal to global importance, played to sterotype or against it, places where homosexuality is tolerated and where it is not.
PLEASE don't respond if all you're going to do is jeer or harrass. We're (mostly) adults here, perhaps we can act like it? I only want to collect this for personal intrest, to see what clever ideas people can come up with.
Edit: There have been a lot of great ideas, and here's a collection of 79 of those from the first 68 responses. I'll keep this list updated as long as it gets replies. Getting there, come on, think of more ideas!
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1) Someone or something is killing various people in the city. These people have the common feature that they're all gay and/or lesbian, and aren't up there in the social order. The authorities don't really care about the problem, so it's up to the PCs to sort things out.
2) The party, visiting a strongly lawful good-aligned dwarven city, finds that homosexuals are exiled. The citadel is threatened by an outside force that only one of the exiled dwarves can stop; he must be found, convinced to help and escorted home, but first the dwarven community must be persuaded to accept his help.
3) A merchant approaches the party asking for help in discovering what has happened to his teenage son; it turns out the young man has eloped with a (male) wizard, who is using magic to hide him.
4) A town council, desperately unpopular after an attack by orcs destroys much farmland, begins a pogrom against 'unnaturals' who 'aided their enemy'; this rapidly expands to unclude homosexuals. Adding a twist, one of trhe councillors is himself/herself homosexual.
5) The spring planting festival always includes a rite where the Queen of the Fields, the prettiest woman in the village, chooses a Goodman Farmer as her 'husband' to bring fertility to the fields; this year however, she selects a woman from the village, and mayhem ensues.
6) A quietly successful merchant is being blackmailed by someone over his liaison with a male servant; when the demands grow too large the merchant approaches the party, trying to choose someone understanding, to help him uncover and deal with the blackmailer. How do the party react?
7) In a drunken celebration after their latest success, one of the party picks up a devestatingly attractive person of the opposite sex, But as the relationship builds, there are clues that this partner is in fact an illusionist. Which enemy is trying to get to the party? In fact it's an illusionist of the same sex, acting to keep a secret of his/her sexuality.
8) The party are engaged by a civic leader (mayor) to attack the stronghold of an evil knight, who is said to be planning an assault on the mayor's city. On arriving at the stronghold, they discover that the knight has no hostile intentions, but is in fact providing a sanctuary for the oppressed "sexually unorthodox" - the mayor just wants to eliminate this den of vice.
9) After a series of successful adventures in the area, one of the party members finds he or she has a 'groupie' of the same sex who becomes obsessed with them.
10) The Goddess of Love decides to shake things up in a particular city by turning the tables on a spring 'Festival of Love' that's really just a disguised orgy. For a night, a day, and a night, she induces in each person a complete and abiding love (not lust) for another person of their own sex. The party either gets trapped in this effect, or comes into town during it. And how do they deal with it after the effect ends?
11) If the party regularly deals with a particular craftsman, one day they notice several bruises on one of the apprentices. If asked, the craftsman says the apprentice tangled with a group of bullies, but the apprentice tells a different story later: the craftsman beat him when the apprentice was found kissing a young man who is apprentice to another trade. The youth cannot leave service, since his family would then forfit his bond and he'd have no trade to show for his years of work. How can the party help him?
12) For many years, a city has relied upon the services of a mercenary company to protect it. Now the new mayor finds that the captain of the military band could care less whether or not some of his men sleep with each other, and terminates their contract. The city fathers try to get the party to raise a militia company to defend them from the bands of humanoids that roam the area.
13) That love pation you just bought? It doesn't care what sex it works on, and you just unknowingly knocked it into the tavern's stewpot. Hilarity ensues.
14) The paladin discovers that his squire has fallen for him. Is it hero-worship or something a lot deeper?
15) A young woman and her female lover are met on the road, travelling in secret. it turns out that one of them is the second daughter of a local noble and is due to be wed in one week to a powerful merchant. She flees the merchant's men to be with the only person she really does love.
16) Two young men in love with each other seek sanctuary in the Love Goddess' temple. The sancity of the temple is breached and the pair are taken off to prison. A week later, during the full moon when her power is the greatest, the Love Goddess curses the area: no procreation can take palce. At all. Babies are not born, or are born dead. Seed does not germinate, thus plants cannot grow. Animals do not breed. Fruit withers on the vine. (if you want to get really scientific, problems erupt because bacteria - including the beneficial flora in the intestine - does not replace itself - I'm sure other hideous consequences also occur) Because of the time differential, the city does not realize what has angered Her. The party must discover what has happened and free the men before the entire area starves to death.
17) Knowing the Merchant Son, who has had threats, and an unsuccessful attempt on his life by an "unknown force" who is against the marriage (This can be the lesbian Lover, a rival merchant house, or some other faction witha stake in th marriage). The merchant Son is enthusiastic about the marriage not just because it is advantageous to his family, but because The Heroine is hot (He's young! Lighten up)
18) Knowing the Lesbian Lover, who is very much just wants a quiet "married" life away from crawling through dungeons and looting treasure. The cede of land was a perfect end to her adventuring days: Far enough away from the capitol that her relationship with The Heroine, would not be well-known; and secure and homey enough that their lives would not be a constant battle for survival (like adventuring). The arrival of the Merchant Son, and The Heroine's enthusiasm for the marriage, are admittedly a bit of a slap in the face to the Lesbian Lover...who has been loyal and steadfast all these years.
19) Knowing The Heroine, who, while very fond of the Lesbian Lover, has been "missing" male companionship for quite some time, and considers the marriage to be a terrific "fix" for her dilemma. Unknown to the Lesbian Lover, she also has no real plans to settle down, and plans to use her new keep as a base of operations to expand her territories into Hobgoblin lands. A marriage to the Merchant Son, who is both wealthy enough to hire mercenaries and a decent enough swordsman himself, meets The Heroine's needs exactly as well as fulfilling her oaths to the Duke. Plus, he is hot!
20) The PCs are asked to escort a nobleman's son to a city a few days away for an arranged wedding. Along the way, they find that the son is in love with his (male) attendant, & the two are waiting for a chance to run away from the group. Do the PCs help the young lovers (risking the ire of a powerful noble), fulfill their sworn task (gaining a nice payment for their efforts), or turn a blind eye to the planned escape (but leaving these two city fellows to make it on their own in the wilds)?
21) The party encounters a representative of a strange & rare race. Although they resemble humans, there are no females of this species. Instead, they reproduce through a form of interspecies surrogacy whereby in male will place his seed in a host from a humanoid race; there it will grow & within 2 weeks emerge as an infant of this race. The representative has approached the party to request that one of the party members serve as a host (DMs choice if host must be female, or if the hosting does not require standard reproductive organs & can take place in either gender). He assures the party that hosting his child will not damage the surrogate. Can he be trusted?
22) Every three years at the Truelove Festival, the oracle descends from her mountain retreat to scry for the youth of the local village. In the water of her magical bowl, the face of one's only true love can be seen, & the viewer will have a sense of the direction & distance to them. A handsome young man has found the party, & is convinced that one of the male party members is the one whom he saw in the bowl two months ago at the festival. If he is mistaken, then where is his true love?
23) While staying in a small village, a winsome lass approaches one of the male party members for a night of pleasure. Her manner seems a bit awkward, however. It turns out that she only wants to become pregnant so that she & her wife can have a child of their own to raise. While she's willing to go the traditional route to become pregnant, there is a danger her wife might be so angered that the couple would split up. Can the party convince the wife to go along with the plan, or perhaps discover some magical means of effecting a pregnancy without sex?
24) The party arrives in a large town to find a celebration in full swing. The daughter of a wealthy local tradesman is taking a wife, & the handfasting ceremony is about to start. As the couple climbs the dais in the town square to take their vows, a figure appears in a burst of smoke, grabs the daughter's fiancee, & vanishes. Who is the kidnapper, & can the party rescue the fair maiden?
25) The party is approached by a woman who wants their help. She and her lover want to secretly leave the city because her lover's parents disapprove of their relationship. The other woman is being heavily guarded. Well into the mission the PCs discover that the parents are not upset about their daughter being in a lesbian relationship, but that her lovers family has the taint of filthy elven blood!
26) In the forest the party happen upon a young man who is being hunted down by a Paladin. The party learns that in this kingdom the local order of Paladins is composed entirely of homosexual men, and by divine decree any gay man born in the kingdom must join the order. The young man loves nature and wants to be a Ranger or a Druid.
27) A strong minded woman with an abusive past has scorned men and taken on a lebian lifestyle. Here, as a butch she gathers young gullible fems to her and inspires in them a hatred of men. She makes this task easier by picking those women with abusive pasts via male relatives and/or lovers, despite she herself filling much the same role for these women. She then uses them to commit a series of gruesome murders in the city that in some way mimic the MO of a monster - perhaps vampire or ghoul.
28) In the 'home base' town of the party a young man is murdered on the eve of his wedding. A mid-level female warrior is promptly arrested for the crime. Until very recently she was in a well known lesbian relationship with the would-be bride, it is assumed that she killed the man in a fit of jealousy after their recent break-up. The imprisoned warrior woman appeals to the party to prove her innocence.
29) A local noble and mage is found dead in a part of town known for it's rapant prostituion. Recently several "johns" have been killed in this area and the watch is looking for a murderous prostitute. The noble's family ask the party to investigate quietly to avoid a scandal. During the investigation the party finds that the noble himself was the murderous prostitute. He was playing a kinky "game"- using polymorph self to change sex and rolling his clients for cash and fun.
30) Somebody slips a 'special potion' into the party's collection of healing potions: a combination cursed 'sex-change' effect (like the old Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity) and an Elixer of Love! Hilarity ensues. Or just have ALL the healing potions replaced with Elixers of Love. Maybe the last collection the aquired were blessed by the Goddess of Love and the have a (perhaps temporary, perhaps not) Elixer of Love effect in addition to the healing. Either way, it's sure to make for an interesting time.
31) Party interested in stopping a growing rift between elven and human kingdom. Turns out, the human king is horrified, because his son was propositioned by a visiting elven prince. Various permutations suggest themselves, such as... perhaps it wasn't the elf who initiated things, perhaps things went further than simple proposition. Maybe even the elf wasn't really interested, but was willing to play nice. While not gay or bi, heck, he's 200, what's a little loving to smooth over racial relations. The king and court may know varying degrees or have different ideas of what went on. The elves may also have varying attitudes. Perhaps the prince didn't know how humans felt, or perhaps the secret simply escaped. The elves probably feel that the humans are small minded bigots, while the humans feel the elves are decadent degenerates with no moral compass.
32) A member of the local thieves guild claims he is gay (he is bluffing/acting, that is) to gain entrance to the powerful gay wizards tower, so he can steal a magical item.
33) A human town has an (apparently male) elven mayor, who seems enamored of an (apparently male) dwarf. The townsfolk are from a homophobic human culture, and they hire the pcs to 'convince' the elf to step down as mayor. Investigation reveals- What?!?- that elves and dwarves are opposite genders of the same species.
34) After seeing two bearded dwarven traders nuzzling in their tavern, the homophobic human culture kick them out, along with all other dwarves within their borders, and demand an apology from the dwarven nation for the insult. Naturally, it eventuates that one of the dwarves was in fact one of the few dwarven females to venture beyond her home town, and the perceived insult had even less basis in reality than normal.
35) An openly gay rich merchant marries a local woman in hopes of producing an heir. He is getting old and is worried about where his money will go once he dies. The woman he married is clueless about the merchants sexual orientation. The merchant has some people approach the players for a mission. He needs a rare aphrodisiac in order to consummate the marriage. The players are to go and retrieve it from a location that has some inherent danger. In my game it was the seeds of a yellow musk creeper in the swamps with Yellow Musk Gnoll Zombies.
36) PCs encounter a demon hunter, who is tracking a particular incubus. Said demon had been trapped by the hunter, but escaped by seducing the hunter's apprentice. Now, the incubus has effectively enthralled/brainwashed the young man into being its personal bodyguard and lure for other young men. The hunter seeks to kill them both, believing that even if the magical influence on his former apprentice was lifted, the apprentice is too conditioned towards the incubus' will and would not survive on his own. Or would seek to resurrect/resummon the incubus.
37) A (seemingly) beautiful fiend seeks to seduce the lonely and introverted gay child of a noble or other powerful figure. Family rejection is only likely to make the fiend's hold stronger.
38) A famed band of mercenary adventurers is actually made up of male couples who, like the Sacred Band of Thebes, fight fiercely so as not to shame themselves before their beloved.
39) Girdle of opposite sex? Helm of opposite alignment? How about the Item of Opposite Orientation? For that matter, what about a secret group that has turned the Girdle of Opposite Sex into a blessing rather than a curse, using it to help would-be transsexuals to achieve new lives?
40) A particular god likes to woo handsome men, and doesn't take kindly to rejection (several of the Greek gods work well for this). When he chooses an attractive heterosexual, how does the unwilling paramour say no?
41) Certain sorcerous bloodlines seem to produce more gay offspring than others (probably making them somewhat rarer as well). Is there a link between homosexuality and magical talent? (All those bards have to be coming from somewhere...)
42) A young street hustler has captured the heart of an influential man who must conceal their relationship, but who will hear nothing harsh said about his beloved, even as the conniving hustler plots to sell his lover out to his enemies.
43) A particular shrine or grove where a same-sex couple was murdered long ago is a haven for gay people seeking shelter and aid, but the vengeful ghosts destroy anyone else who violates their rest.
44) The vampire preying on local woman is not, in fact, the dashing and darkly mysterious nobleman visiting the area, but a woman in his entourage who holds the nobleman in her thrall (and uses him as her cover).
45) How about a cabal of insane eugenicist necromancers who are intent on improving the humanoid races by weeding out 'aberrant' (in their view) behavior by means of a magically engineered virus that only affects homosexuals? It could be only the first of a series of plagues that kill those that don't live up to the necromancers' standards of fitness (left-handed, legs not the same length, blue eyes, etc.)
46) Some months ago, the local lord's winsome son left to follow a 'beautiful man', a travelling merchant mage, across the land. Now, the son is due to be invested as his father's official heir, and there is word that the merchant has been spotted several towns over. The lord hires the PCs to bring his son back, tied up and unconsious if necessary. Upon locating the son, they find the story to be somewhat different that the lord believes. The merchant gently rebuffed the son's advances, but sensed a strong talent for magic in the young man and took him on as an apprentice. Now, his master has been killed by rivals who believe he got the best of them in business dealings. The young mage seeks revenge and offers to go back peacefully if the PCs help him.
47) The King for the past 16 years is gay, but he is a closet homosexual who wants it kept secret. He has married a woman and produced an heir, and the Queen has now used her knowledge of his "secret" to maneuver herself into the role of the continent's ruler.
48) A team of five elves has been touring the city, giving people tips on fashion, design, diet... However, their "Grooming Guru" was brutally murdered after suggesting to a dwarf that his beard was a "hideous abomination", and that he should "cut it off, cut it all off... and burn it".
49) The PCs are hired by a rich family to investigate the murder of their eccentric son. While investigating, the PCs find out that he was an edonist, eager to try everything and anything (a Sensate IMC), amoral and a real embarassment for the family. His personal money is gone as well. It seems that an assassin killed him, and that he was hired by a poor local prostitute. It is unclear where the woman is, why she did it, and where she found enough cash to pay the killer. Sounds like a common murder for money, except... The truth is - the nobleman paid the prostitute to have their minds temporarily exchanged by a powerful psionicist, so that he could experience a woman's body for some time. He found that he liked it so much that he'd rather the switch be permanent. Thus, he had his old body murdered after recovering most of his money, and he still exists in the prostitute's body.
50) A lonely but powerful female wizard becames infatuated with a dryad and uses magic to imprison the dryad and her tree within the wizard's tower. The denziens of the forest ask the PCs to help.
51) The players are to investigate the fact that many necromancers seem to take male halfling lovers or love slaves.
52) The elected ruler of a city outs himself as gay. He's a very competent man, having steered the city out of a recession, but now the city (especially the council of elders) want him to step down from his office. This would have bad consequences from the city, since noone else would be capable of getting it out of the hole the former ruler mismanaged it into.
53) A gay wizard and author has recently opened a book store in town, selling books of all types. To men who he strikes a fancy with, however, he gives them a romance novel free of charge. Those who even open these books are trapped inside the book, their image being burned into the pages as part of the various illustrations, their name inscribed into the pages as the main characters love intrest, who happens to be an idealized version of the wizard. Since these books immeadtly vanish to appear at the wizard enclave some distance away and the magic only works when the male reader is alone, no one knows what is causing the disapearances.
54) A male PC starts having somewhat erotic dreams involving a shapeless form, who looks familiar despite the lack of features. Whatever the PC thinks is going on in the dream, a voyeristic diviner has devolped a crystal ball and is implanting these dreams in the PC head, and he is watching them as the character sleeps. The sleep is otherwise restful, and the player recalls almost nothing about the dreams at first, but start to get more and more intense as the diviner gets more bold using the ball, to the point it plagues the character even when he's normall awake, slipping off into daydreams. The diviner is known to the party as the person they bought scrolls from in the town they were last in.
55) A known gay bard is set to be executed for the rape of a nobleman, despite evidence the bard was neither in the town at the time or that he had even met the man. The nobleman is making false claims so that another bard, a friend of his, will lose her biggest form of competition in the city. The wrongly imprisoned bard manages to slip out a message of help to a sympathetic guard, who appeals to the players to help free him or flatly prove the bards innocence.
56) A cleric of a god of valor and honor is kicked out his church when it is discovered he's gay. The clerics who forced him out suddenly loose their spells and divine powers, and pleed with the PCs to hunt down and kill the cleric, because they feel he has turned evil and cursed them. However, when found, the outsed cleric apparently still has his powers from the god of valor, and claims that they are being punished for their shortsightedness.
57) Two nights ago, a man was hanged for a crime, having relations with another man. The second partner fleed, and asks the party to retrieve the body of his lover so that a sympathetic cleric can cast Raise Dead on him. The man was a member of a wealthy trade guild, and his body is now buried in the families magically defended maze-like crypt.
58) In a place where the party is exploring, they wake a man who has been held in magical stasis. Preplexed why his lover, who was also in stasis, seems to have vanished, he asks the party for help in locating his partner, offering to reveal the location of a lost treasure hoard if they aggree and manage to locate him.
59) An alchemist who is nearly killed by a mob when it is discovered he is gay has started poisoning the men of the town he lived in. The poison is not deadly, but renders the people who drink it sterile after many doses. He threatens to taint the whole regions drinking supply with it in retaliation unless he gets an applogy from every person who attacked him. The fact that 2 of the people who ran him out of town have since died in the last week doesn't seem to faze him, he still wants their applogy.
60) One of the male party members henchmen or followers seems to devolp a crush on his master. He refuses to leave the party unless threatened, even to the point of paying back all of his fees to the party if he is allowed to stay. He will take up arms, even if they have no training for combat, in order to protect their master.
61) The dashing but despotic ruler of a small city, who is normally very well guarded, falls heavily for one of the PCs. With a bit of encouragement, he might let the PC into his bedchamber, even give him the run of his citadel. This could be an unique opportunity for assassination, burglar, the liberation of captives, or a coup d'etat.
62) A wealthy count, famous as a troubador, starts publishing epics in which the PCs figure as heroes. And rather later, lyrics in which one of the more charismatic PCs figure as the singer's beloved.
63) As a result of a previous encounter, the PCs find themselves in desperate need of an item that will change a character's sex. Persistent rumour holds (it is Bardic knowledge) that one of the most prominent magnates of the city own a girdle that will do just that, and uses it every weekend. But rumour doesn't seem to be sure which of the four or five most pompous and strait-laced prominenti is the owner.
64) After years struggling to qualify, a PC discovers that the secret initiation for a powerful prestige class or other privilieged group involves a year as a probationary member, performing ritual sexual services for a more senior member, who will ever after remain the character's sponsor, protector, and mentor within the group.
65) There is a certain order of very valiant but utterly secretive paladins, who hold great wealth through the donations that people have made to them over the centuries, the property their members have left to the Order, banking profits and so forth. A person appears claiming to be an ex-member, who offers to testify that their initiation procedrues involve homosexual acts, if the king prosecuting the casse makes it worth his while to do so.
66) A PC's newest cohort is a nice-looking, intelligent, well-made lad, diligent, resourceful, articulate, and streetwise. He quickly makes himself indispensible. But it gradually emerges that he holds to some queer magical beliefs that have to do with acquiring certain characteristics by eating or swallowing parts or exudations of animals that possess those qualities. He eats beef to make himself strong, cats' flesh to improve his dexterity, avoids milk not to become effeminate, and so forth. Anyway, he turns out to admire the PC for his courage and other manly virtues....
67) In a heavily militaristic society, the ruler has decread that no man in the army shall have a wife. The intention is to encourage the fighting men to devolp bonds with their own kind, to help them fight together as a stronger force, and be willing to fight for their comrads. It worked to well, now few of the retired soldiers will have children due to their spartan training, threating the armies size in the next few generations.
68) All babies in the town have been stillborn for the past two years, and the locals are beginning to blaim a lesbian merchant who came to town about that time, saying that her disrespect for the 'natural' way of things is causing the deaths. The lack of children in the area is related to the coming of the lesbian merchant, but only because one of the townswomen, a married one in fact, was rebuffed after making sexual advances. She cursed the babies of the town, hoping that people would blame the merchant. If the PCs are able to discover what truly is going on, they then will have to discover how to lift the curse, because the townswoman will not remove it unless the merchant dies now that her secret has been found out.
69) Gay males are called wolf brothers because during winter time they are chased out of their villages to die in the snows or to be eaten by wolves. But of course there are people, organizations (e.g. temples, monasteries, mage guilds) and places offering them sanctuary. Those that survive often turn to the adventuring lifestyle and become quite powerful. How would they deal with a threat to their former homes? Especially, if they are good aligned? What happens, if the populace finds themselves indebted to them? For the survivors the term wolf brothers has become a badge of honor.
70) The lord of the land is dying, and his only heir is gay. He is refusing to assume the throne in his father's place citing "prior commitments". Most people think that these commitments are to his lover (a Ranger/Barbarian). The court is thrown into disarray and the characters are called in to help resolve the situation. As it turns out, the "prior commitments" are to a secret order sworn to protect the land. The oath includes a refusal to wield temporal power. How can this secret be protected and the succession crisis be solved? A suitable successor has to be picked from among bickering and opportunistic courtiers.
71) An extended tribe of entirely female wilderness warriors (mostly rangers with a few druids) has patroled remote areas of the kingdon for generations, protecting the villages from the wilderness and the wilderness from the villagers. Relations with men are taboo (though the range of reactions to heterosexuality could run the same gamut as conservative reactions to homosexuality in america), and the tribe perpetuates itself by having senior druids (with access to A Thousand Faces) take on temporary male forms to impregnante willing warriors.
72) A local woman comes to the party with a request. She has heard of a magical item that alters the wearer's gender. She seeks this item so that she can become a man temporarily and impregnate her lesbian lover. They desperately want to have a child of their own.
73) A kingdom has historically blocked gays from marrying, and the local church (who rivals the king for power, and has sole authority to perform marriages) has always supported this. However, a new, idealistic cleric has become high priest, and has started performing gay marriages. The whole kingdom is in an uproar - half the council is trying to pass laws against it, while the other half oppose such laws. The church itself is publicly divided - some priests embrace the new archpriest's policies, others accuse him of heresy. All sides contact the PCs, asking them to be their spokesperson or otherwise lend their support to their cause.
74) In a homophobic city, there has always been a tavern which has the "worst-kept-secret" reputation being a safe place for gays and lesbians to meet and mingle. Every so often, the town guard will descend upon the tavern, arrrest the patrons for "public indecency" and make them spend a night or two in jail, roughing up a few patrons along the way. No one is really hurt, and it gives the guards something to earn their pay. One night, however the gay patrons decide not to go quietly, but to resist. They have barricaded themselves inside the tavern, making a very public statement. The PCs are part of the mercenary group hired to put down the riot, or they have friends inside the tavern and want to help.
75) A famous and talented playwright has been discovered to be a homosexual. It has become a highly public scandal. The playwright himself is unrepentant, as is his lover, a powerful nobleman. The conservative church is crying for blood, wanting the couple to be publicly punished. The more lenient ruling body, however, is shielding the playwright and his lover from punishment.
76) The PCs are hired by a town council to be the core part of a group being formed to eradicate a group of "evil witches" which live several miles outside of town in the woods (they're druids). The druids have been blamed for every wrong thing that has gone wrong in the town for years, most notably by one particular councilman, using the druids as a way to garner attention/support. No one told the PCs, however, that the druids aren't evil - they're merely lesbians whose lifestyle offends the councilman.
77) This one is really, really touchy and borders on being politically incorrect. For a mature group, though, it could be part of a really meaningful campaign. A slow-acting plague has gripped a kingdom - nearly every person who has caught it has died, generally not before passing it on. The plague barely responds to magical healing, and those who have died from it are extraordinarily difficult to resurrect. For some reason, the homosexual population of the city is hardest-hit, causing the fearful public to blame them for it. Events akin to medieval witch-hunts have occured - those known to have the plague, or known to be homosexual, are publicly executed and their bodies burned. Now, though, several high-ranking members of society have caught the plague - and a local wizard thinks he knows how to stop it.
78) A certain tribe of elves has traditionally respected gay/bisexual tribe members - granting them special status and believing them to be spiritually elevated, and capable of strong magic. The tribe lives in peace next to a city of mostly humans. The humans revile the elves' acceptance of gays, and have little to do with them other than occasional trade. Yet the son/daughter of an influential person has run away from the city to join the elves. The elves have accepted the person into their tribe and promised to protect him/her, but the parents are vehement about wanting their child back and "fixed" - to the point of, if they are rich enough, hiring mercenaries to go to war with the tribe.
79) The son of a rich merchant (or daughter) was caught "in flagrante delicto" in the arms of their same-sex lover. The outraged parents (who ascribe to a religion which forbids homosexuality in all forms) have hired the PCs to escort their child to a temple which promises to "cure" homosexuality - unbeknownst to the PCs, using methods of brainwashing and near-torture. Perhaps other 'patients' of the temple have contacted the PCs, asking to be freed from what is virtually a prison.
A couple from BOEF go along the lines of "A gay paladin is ousted from his order and asks the party to help him regain his status." Another is "A male wizard asks a male party member to aggree to a legal union, promissing titles, magic items, and power." I would like to collect 100 or so events and encounters that are something along those lines, ranging for nonsexual to sexual, personal to global importance, played to sterotype or against it, places where homosexuality is tolerated and where it is not.
PLEASE don't respond if all you're going to do is jeer or harrass. We're (mostly) adults here, perhaps we can act like it? I only want to collect this for personal intrest, to see what clever ideas people can come up with.
Edit: There have been a lot of great ideas, and here's a collection of 79 of those from the first 68 responses. I'll keep this list updated as long as it gets replies. Getting there, come on, think of more ideas!
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1) Someone or something is killing various people in the city. These people have the common feature that they're all gay and/or lesbian, and aren't up there in the social order. The authorities don't really care about the problem, so it's up to the PCs to sort things out.
2) The party, visiting a strongly lawful good-aligned dwarven city, finds that homosexuals are exiled. The citadel is threatened by an outside force that only one of the exiled dwarves can stop; he must be found, convinced to help and escorted home, but first the dwarven community must be persuaded to accept his help.
3) A merchant approaches the party asking for help in discovering what has happened to his teenage son; it turns out the young man has eloped with a (male) wizard, who is using magic to hide him.
4) A town council, desperately unpopular after an attack by orcs destroys much farmland, begins a pogrom against 'unnaturals' who 'aided their enemy'; this rapidly expands to unclude homosexuals. Adding a twist, one of trhe councillors is himself/herself homosexual.
5) The spring planting festival always includes a rite where the Queen of the Fields, the prettiest woman in the village, chooses a Goodman Farmer as her 'husband' to bring fertility to the fields; this year however, she selects a woman from the village, and mayhem ensues.
6) A quietly successful merchant is being blackmailed by someone over his liaison with a male servant; when the demands grow too large the merchant approaches the party, trying to choose someone understanding, to help him uncover and deal with the blackmailer. How do the party react?
7) In a drunken celebration after their latest success, one of the party picks up a devestatingly attractive person of the opposite sex, But as the relationship builds, there are clues that this partner is in fact an illusionist. Which enemy is trying to get to the party? In fact it's an illusionist of the same sex, acting to keep a secret of his/her sexuality.
8) The party are engaged by a civic leader (mayor) to attack the stronghold of an evil knight, who is said to be planning an assault on the mayor's city. On arriving at the stronghold, they discover that the knight has no hostile intentions, but is in fact providing a sanctuary for the oppressed "sexually unorthodox" - the mayor just wants to eliminate this den of vice.
9) After a series of successful adventures in the area, one of the party members finds he or she has a 'groupie' of the same sex who becomes obsessed with them.
10) The Goddess of Love decides to shake things up in a particular city by turning the tables on a spring 'Festival of Love' that's really just a disguised orgy. For a night, a day, and a night, she induces in each person a complete and abiding love (not lust) for another person of their own sex. The party either gets trapped in this effect, or comes into town during it. And how do they deal with it after the effect ends?
11) If the party regularly deals with a particular craftsman, one day they notice several bruises on one of the apprentices. If asked, the craftsman says the apprentice tangled with a group of bullies, but the apprentice tells a different story later: the craftsman beat him when the apprentice was found kissing a young man who is apprentice to another trade. The youth cannot leave service, since his family would then forfit his bond and he'd have no trade to show for his years of work. How can the party help him?
12) For many years, a city has relied upon the services of a mercenary company to protect it. Now the new mayor finds that the captain of the military band could care less whether or not some of his men sleep with each other, and terminates their contract. The city fathers try to get the party to raise a militia company to defend them from the bands of humanoids that roam the area.
13) That love pation you just bought? It doesn't care what sex it works on, and you just unknowingly knocked it into the tavern's stewpot. Hilarity ensues.
14) The paladin discovers that his squire has fallen for him. Is it hero-worship or something a lot deeper?
15) A young woman and her female lover are met on the road, travelling in secret. it turns out that one of them is the second daughter of a local noble and is due to be wed in one week to a powerful merchant. She flees the merchant's men to be with the only person she really does love.
16) Two young men in love with each other seek sanctuary in the Love Goddess' temple. The sancity of the temple is breached and the pair are taken off to prison. A week later, during the full moon when her power is the greatest, the Love Goddess curses the area: no procreation can take palce. At all. Babies are not born, or are born dead. Seed does not germinate, thus plants cannot grow. Animals do not breed. Fruit withers on the vine. (if you want to get really scientific, problems erupt because bacteria - including the beneficial flora in the intestine - does not replace itself - I'm sure other hideous consequences also occur) Because of the time differential, the city does not realize what has angered Her. The party must discover what has happened and free the men before the entire area starves to death.
17) Knowing the Merchant Son, who has had threats, and an unsuccessful attempt on his life by an "unknown force" who is against the marriage (This can be the lesbian Lover, a rival merchant house, or some other faction witha stake in th marriage). The merchant Son is enthusiastic about the marriage not just because it is advantageous to his family, but because The Heroine is hot (He's young! Lighten up)
18) Knowing the Lesbian Lover, who is very much just wants a quiet "married" life away from crawling through dungeons and looting treasure. The cede of land was a perfect end to her adventuring days: Far enough away from the capitol that her relationship with The Heroine, would not be well-known; and secure and homey enough that their lives would not be a constant battle for survival (like adventuring). The arrival of the Merchant Son, and The Heroine's enthusiasm for the marriage, are admittedly a bit of a slap in the face to the Lesbian Lover...who has been loyal and steadfast all these years.
19) Knowing The Heroine, who, while very fond of the Lesbian Lover, has been "missing" male companionship for quite some time, and considers the marriage to be a terrific "fix" for her dilemma. Unknown to the Lesbian Lover, she also has no real plans to settle down, and plans to use her new keep as a base of operations to expand her territories into Hobgoblin lands. A marriage to the Merchant Son, who is both wealthy enough to hire mercenaries and a decent enough swordsman himself, meets The Heroine's needs exactly as well as fulfilling her oaths to the Duke. Plus, he is hot!
20) The PCs are asked to escort a nobleman's son to a city a few days away for an arranged wedding. Along the way, they find that the son is in love with his (male) attendant, & the two are waiting for a chance to run away from the group. Do the PCs help the young lovers (risking the ire of a powerful noble), fulfill their sworn task (gaining a nice payment for their efforts), or turn a blind eye to the planned escape (but leaving these two city fellows to make it on their own in the wilds)?
21) The party encounters a representative of a strange & rare race. Although they resemble humans, there are no females of this species. Instead, they reproduce through a form of interspecies surrogacy whereby in male will place his seed in a host from a humanoid race; there it will grow & within 2 weeks emerge as an infant of this race. The representative has approached the party to request that one of the party members serve as a host (DMs choice if host must be female, or if the hosting does not require standard reproductive organs & can take place in either gender). He assures the party that hosting his child will not damage the surrogate. Can he be trusted?
22) Every three years at the Truelove Festival, the oracle descends from her mountain retreat to scry for the youth of the local village. In the water of her magical bowl, the face of one's only true love can be seen, & the viewer will have a sense of the direction & distance to them. A handsome young man has found the party, & is convinced that one of the male party members is the one whom he saw in the bowl two months ago at the festival. If he is mistaken, then where is his true love?
23) While staying in a small village, a winsome lass approaches one of the male party members for a night of pleasure. Her manner seems a bit awkward, however. It turns out that she only wants to become pregnant so that she & her wife can have a child of their own to raise. While she's willing to go the traditional route to become pregnant, there is a danger her wife might be so angered that the couple would split up. Can the party convince the wife to go along with the plan, or perhaps discover some magical means of effecting a pregnancy without sex?
24) The party arrives in a large town to find a celebration in full swing. The daughter of a wealthy local tradesman is taking a wife, & the handfasting ceremony is about to start. As the couple climbs the dais in the town square to take their vows, a figure appears in a burst of smoke, grabs the daughter's fiancee, & vanishes. Who is the kidnapper, & can the party rescue the fair maiden?
25) The party is approached by a woman who wants their help. She and her lover want to secretly leave the city because her lover's parents disapprove of their relationship. The other woman is being heavily guarded. Well into the mission the PCs discover that the parents are not upset about their daughter being in a lesbian relationship, but that her lovers family has the taint of filthy elven blood!
26) In the forest the party happen upon a young man who is being hunted down by a Paladin. The party learns that in this kingdom the local order of Paladins is composed entirely of homosexual men, and by divine decree any gay man born in the kingdom must join the order. The young man loves nature and wants to be a Ranger or a Druid.
27) A strong minded woman with an abusive past has scorned men and taken on a lebian lifestyle. Here, as a butch she gathers young gullible fems to her and inspires in them a hatred of men. She makes this task easier by picking those women with abusive pasts via male relatives and/or lovers, despite she herself filling much the same role for these women. She then uses them to commit a series of gruesome murders in the city that in some way mimic the MO of a monster - perhaps vampire or ghoul.
28) In the 'home base' town of the party a young man is murdered on the eve of his wedding. A mid-level female warrior is promptly arrested for the crime. Until very recently she was in a well known lesbian relationship with the would-be bride, it is assumed that she killed the man in a fit of jealousy after their recent break-up. The imprisoned warrior woman appeals to the party to prove her innocence.
29) A local noble and mage is found dead in a part of town known for it's rapant prostituion. Recently several "johns" have been killed in this area and the watch is looking for a murderous prostitute. The noble's family ask the party to investigate quietly to avoid a scandal. During the investigation the party finds that the noble himself was the murderous prostitute. He was playing a kinky "game"- using polymorph self to change sex and rolling his clients for cash and fun.
30) Somebody slips a 'special potion' into the party's collection of healing potions: a combination cursed 'sex-change' effect (like the old Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity) and an Elixer of Love! Hilarity ensues. Or just have ALL the healing potions replaced with Elixers of Love. Maybe the last collection the aquired were blessed by the Goddess of Love and the have a (perhaps temporary, perhaps not) Elixer of Love effect in addition to the healing. Either way, it's sure to make for an interesting time.
31) Party interested in stopping a growing rift between elven and human kingdom. Turns out, the human king is horrified, because his son was propositioned by a visiting elven prince. Various permutations suggest themselves, such as... perhaps it wasn't the elf who initiated things, perhaps things went further than simple proposition. Maybe even the elf wasn't really interested, but was willing to play nice. While not gay or bi, heck, he's 200, what's a little loving to smooth over racial relations. The king and court may know varying degrees or have different ideas of what went on. The elves may also have varying attitudes. Perhaps the prince didn't know how humans felt, or perhaps the secret simply escaped. The elves probably feel that the humans are small minded bigots, while the humans feel the elves are decadent degenerates with no moral compass.
32) A member of the local thieves guild claims he is gay (he is bluffing/acting, that is) to gain entrance to the powerful gay wizards tower, so he can steal a magical item.
33) A human town has an (apparently male) elven mayor, who seems enamored of an (apparently male) dwarf. The townsfolk are from a homophobic human culture, and they hire the pcs to 'convince' the elf to step down as mayor. Investigation reveals- What?!?- that elves and dwarves are opposite genders of the same species.
34) After seeing two bearded dwarven traders nuzzling in their tavern, the homophobic human culture kick them out, along with all other dwarves within their borders, and demand an apology from the dwarven nation for the insult. Naturally, it eventuates that one of the dwarves was in fact one of the few dwarven females to venture beyond her home town, and the perceived insult had even less basis in reality than normal.
35) An openly gay rich merchant marries a local woman in hopes of producing an heir. He is getting old and is worried about where his money will go once he dies. The woman he married is clueless about the merchants sexual orientation. The merchant has some people approach the players for a mission. He needs a rare aphrodisiac in order to consummate the marriage. The players are to go and retrieve it from a location that has some inherent danger. In my game it was the seeds of a yellow musk creeper in the swamps with Yellow Musk Gnoll Zombies.
36) PCs encounter a demon hunter, who is tracking a particular incubus. Said demon had been trapped by the hunter, but escaped by seducing the hunter's apprentice. Now, the incubus has effectively enthralled/brainwashed the young man into being its personal bodyguard and lure for other young men. The hunter seeks to kill them both, believing that even if the magical influence on his former apprentice was lifted, the apprentice is too conditioned towards the incubus' will and would not survive on his own. Or would seek to resurrect/resummon the incubus.
37) A (seemingly) beautiful fiend seeks to seduce the lonely and introverted gay child of a noble or other powerful figure. Family rejection is only likely to make the fiend's hold stronger.
38) A famed band of mercenary adventurers is actually made up of male couples who, like the Sacred Band of Thebes, fight fiercely so as not to shame themselves before their beloved.
39) Girdle of opposite sex? Helm of opposite alignment? How about the Item of Opposite Orientation? For that matter, what about a secret group that has turned the Girdle of Opposite Sex into a blessing rather than a curse, using it to help would-be transsexuals to achieve new lives?
40) A particular god likes to woo handsome men, and doesn't take kindly to rejection (several of the Greek gods work well for this). When he chooses an attractive heterosexual, how does the unwilling paramour say no?
41) Certain sorcerous bloodlines seem to produce more gay offspring than others (probably making them somewhat rarer as well). Is there a link between homosexuality and magical talent? (All those bards have to be coming from somewhere...)
42) A young street hustler has captured the heart of an influential man who must conceal their relationship, but who will hear nothing harsh said about his beloved, even as the conniving hustler plots to sell his lover out to his enemies.
43) A particular shrine or grove where a same-sex couple was murdered long ago is a haven for gay people seeking shelter and aid, but the vengeful ghosts destroy anyone else who violates their rest.
44) The vampire preying on local woman is not, in fact, the dashing and darkly mysterious nobleman visiting the area, but a woman in his entourage who holds the nobleman in her thrall (and uses him as her cover).
45) How about a cabal of insane eugenicist necromancers who are intent on improving the humanoid races by weeding out 'aberrant' (in their view) behavior by means of a magically engineered virus that only affects homosexuals? It could be only the first of a series of plagues that kill those that don't live up to the necromancers' standards of fitness (left-handed, legs not the same length, blue eyes, etc.)
46) Some months ago, the local lord's winsome son left to follow a 'beautiful man', a travelling merchant mage, across the land. Now, the son is due to be invested as his father's official heir, and there is word that the merchant has been spotted several towns over. The lord hires the PCs to bring his son back, tied up and unconsious if necessary. Upon locating the son, they find the story to be somewhat different that the lord believes. The merchant gently rebuffed the son's advances, but sensed a strong talent for magic in the young man and took him on as an apprentice. Now, his master has been killed by rivals who believe he got the best of them in business dealings. The young mage seeks revenge and offers to go back peacefully if the PCs help him.
47) The King for the past 16 years is gay, but he is a closet homosexual who wants it kept secret. He has married a woman and produced an heir, and the Queen has now used her knowledge of his "secret" to maneuver herself into the role of the continent's ruler.
48) A team of five elves has been touring the city, giving people tips on fashion, design, diet... However, their "Grooming Guru" was brutally murdered after suggesting to a dwarf that his beard was a "hideous abomination", and that he should "cut it off, cut it all off... and burn it".
49) The PCs are hired by a rich family to investigate the murder of their eccentric son. While investigating, the PCs find out that he was an edonist, eager to try everything and anything (a Sensate IMC), amoral and a real embarassment for the family. His personal money is gone as well. It seems that an assassin killed him, and that he was hired by a poor local prostitute. It is unclear where the woman is, why she did it, and where she found enough cash to pay the killer. Sounds like a common murder for money, except... The truth is - the nobleman paid the prostitute to have their minds temporarily exchanged by a powerful psionicist, so that he could experience a woman's body for some time. He found that he liked it so much that he'd rather the switch be permanent. Thus, he had his old body murdered after recovering most of his money, and he still exists in the prostitute's body.
50) A lonely but powerful female wizard becames infatuated with a dryad and uses magic to imprison the dryad and her tree within the wizard's tower. The denziens of the forest ask the PCs to help.
51) The players are to investigate the fact that many necromancers seem to take male halfling lovers or love slaves.
52) The elected ruler of a city outs himself as gay. He's a very competent man, having steered the city out of a recession, but now the city (especially the council of elders) want him to step down from his office. This would have bad consequences from the city, since noone else would be capable of getting it out of the hole the former ruler mismanaged it into.
53) A gay wizard and author has recently opened a book store in town, selling books of all types. To men who he strikes a fancy with, however, he gives them a romance novel free of charge. Those who even open these books are trapped inside the book, their image being burned into the pages as part of the various illustrations, their name inscribed into the pages as the main characters love intrest, who happens to be an idealized version of the wizard. Since these books immeadtly vanish to appear at the wizard enclave some distance away and the magic only works when the male reader is alone, no one knows what is causing the disapearances.
54) A male PC starts having somewhat erotic dreams involving a shapeless form, who looks familiar despite the lack of features. Whatever the PC thinks is going on in the dream, a voyeristic diviner has devolped a crystal ball and is implanting these dreams in the PC head, and he is watching them as the character sleeps. The sleep is otherwise restful, and the player recalls almost nothing about the dreams at first, but start to get more and more intense as the diviner gets more bold using the ball, to the point it plagues the character even when he's normall awake, slipping off into daydreams. The diviner is known to the party as the person they bought scrolls from in the town they were last in.
55) A known gay bard is set to be executed for the rape of a nobleman, despite evidence the bard was neither in the town at the time or that he had even met the man. The nobleman is making false claims so that another bard, a friend of his, will lose her biggest form of competition in the city. The wrongly imprisoned bard manages to slip out a message of help to a sympathetic guard, who appeals to the players to help free him or flatly prove the bards innocence.
56) A cleric of a god of valor and honor is kicked out his church when it is discovered he's gay. The clerics who forced him out suddenly loose their spells and divine powers, and pleed with the PCs to hunt down and kill the cleric, because they feel he has turned evil and cursed them. However, when found, the outsed cleric apparently still has his powers from the god of valor, and claims that they are being punished for their shortsightedness.
57) Two nights ago, a man was hanged for a crime, having relations with another man. The second partner fleed, and asks the party to retrieve the body of his lover so that a sympathetic cleric can cast Raise Dead on him. The man was a member of a wealthy trade guild, and his body is now buried in the families magically defended maze-like crypt.
58) In a place where the party is exploring, they wake a man who has been held in magical stasis. Preplexed why his lover, who was also in stasis, seems to have vanished, he asks the party for help in locating his partner, offering to reveal the location of a lost treasure hoard if they aggree and manage to locate him.
59) An alchemist who is nearly killed by a mob when it is discovered he is gay has started poisoning the men of the town he lived in. The poison is not deadly, but renders the people who drink it sterile after many doses. He threatens to taint the whole regions drinking supply with it in retaliation unless he gets an applogy from every person who attacked him. The fact that 2 of the people who ran him out of town have since died in the last week doesn't seem to faze him, he still wants their applogy.
60) One of the male party members henchmen or followers seems to devolp a crush on his master. He refuses to leave the party unless threatened, even to the point of paying back all of his fees to the party if he is allowed to stay. He will take up arms, even if they have no training for combat, in order to protect their master.
61) The dashing but despotic ruler of a small city, who is normally very well guarded, falls heavily for one of the PCs. With a bit of encouragement, he might let the PC into his bedchamber, even give him the run of his citadel. This could be an unique opportunity for assassination, burglar, the liberation of captives, or a coup d'etat.
62) A wealthy count, famous as a troubador, starts publishing epics in which the PCs figure as heroes. And rather later, lyrics in which one of the more charismatic PCs figure as the singer's beloved.
63) As a result of a previous encounter, the PCs find themselves in desperate need of an item that will change a character's sex. Persistent rumour holds (it is Bardic knowledge) that one of the most prominent magnates of the city own a girdle that will do just that, and uses it every weekend. But rumour doesn't seem to be sure which of the four or five most pompous and strait-laced prominenti is the owner.
64) After years struggling to qualify, a PC discovers that the secret initiation for a powerful prestige class or other privilieged group involves a year as a probationary member, performing ritual sexual services for a more senior member, who will ever after remain the character's sponsor, protector, and mentor within the group.
65) There is a certain order of very valiant but utterly secretive paladins, who hold great wealth through the donations that people have made to them over the centuries, the property their members have left to the Order, banking profits and so forth. A person appears claiming to be an ex-member, who offers to testify that their initiation procedrues involve homosexual acts, if the king prosecuting the casse makes it worth his while to do so.
66) A PC's newest cohort is a nice-looking, intelligent, well-made lad, diligent, resourceful, articulate, and streetwise. He quickly makes himself indispensible. But it gradually emerges that he holds to some queer magical beliefs that have to do with acquiring certain characteristics by eating or swallowing parts or exudations of animals that possess those qualities. He eats beef to make himself strong, cats' flesh to improve his dexterity, avoids milk not to become effeminate, and so forth. Anyway, he turns out to admire the PC for his courage and other manly virtues....
67) In a heavily militaristic society, the ruler has decread that no man in the army shall have a wife. The intention is to encourage the fighting men to devolp bonds with their own kind, to help them fight together as a stronger force, and be willing to fight for their comrads. It worked to well, now few of the retired soldiers will have children due to their spartan training, threating the armies size in the next few generations.
68) All babies in the town have been stillborn for the past two years, and the locals are beginning to blaim a lesbian merchant who came to town about that time, saying that her disrespect for the 'natural' way of things is causing the deaths. The lack of children in the area is related to the coming of the lesbian merchant, but only because one of the townswomen, a married one in fact, was rebuffed after making sexual advances. She cursed the babies of the town, hoping that people would blame the merchant. If the PCs are able to discover what truly is going on, they then will have to discover how to lift the curse, because the townswoman will not remove it unless the merchant dies now that her secret has been found out.
69) Gay males are called wolf brothers because during winter time they are chased out of their villages to die in the snows or to be eaten by wolves. But of course there are people, organizations (e.g. temples, monasteries, mage guilds) and places offering them sanctuary. Those that survive often turn to the adventuring lifestyle and become quite powerful. How would they deal with a threat to their former homes? Especially, if they are good aligned? What happens, if the populace finds themselves indebted to them? For the survivors the term wolf brothers has become a badge of honor.
70) The lord of the land is dying, and his only heir is gay. He is refusing to assume the throne in his father's place citing "prior commitments". Most people think that these commitments are to his lover (a Ranger/Barbarian). The court is thrown into disarray and the characters are called in to help resolve the situation. As it turns out, the "prior commitments" are to a secret order sworn to protect the land. The oath includes a refusal to wield temporal power. How can this secret be protected and the succession crisis be solved? A suitable successor has to be picked from among bickering and opportunistic courtiers.
71) An extended tribe of entirely female wilderness warriors (mostly rangers with a few druids) has patroled remote areas of the kingdon for generations, protecting the villages from the wilderness and the wilderness from the villagers. Relations with men are taboo (though the range of reactions to heterosexuality could run the same gamut as conservative reactions to homosexuality in america), and the tribe perpetuates itself by having senior druids (with access to A Thousand Faces) take on temporary male forms to impregnante willing warriors.
72) A local woman comes to the party with a request. She has heard of a magical item that alters the wearer's gender. She seeks this item so that she can become a man temporarily and impregnate her lesbian lover. They desperately want to have a child of their own.
73) A kingdom has historically blocked gays from marrying, and the local church (who rivals the king for power, and has sole authority to perform marriages) has always supported this. However, a new, idealistic cleric has become high priest, and has started performing gay marriages. The whole kingdom is in an uproar - half the council is trying to pass laws against it, while the other half oppose such laws. The church itself is publicly divided - some priests embrace the new archpriest's policies, others accuse him of heresy. All sides contact the PCs, asking them to be their spokesperson or otherwise lend their support to their cause.
74) In a homophobic city, there has always been a tavern which has the "worst-kept-secret" reputation being a safe place for gays and lesbians to meet and mingle. Every so often, the town guard will descend upon the tavern, arrrest the patrons for "public indecency" and make them spend a night or two in jail, roughing up a few patrons along the way. No one is really hurt, and it gives the guards something to earn their pay. One night, however the gay patrons decide not to go quietly, but to resist. They have barricaded themselves inside the tavern, making a very public statement. The PCs are part of the mercenary group hired to put down the riot, or they have friends inside the tavern and want to help.
75) A famous and talented playwright has been discovered to be a homosexual. It has become a highly public scandal. The playwright himself is unrepentant, as is his lover, a powerful nobleman. The conservative church is crying for blood, wanting the couple to be publicly punished. The more lenient ruling body, however, is shielding the playwright and his lover from punishment.
76) The PCs are hired by a town council to be the core part of a group being formed to eradicate a group of "evil witches" which live several miles outside of town in the woods (they're druids). The druids have been blamed for every wrong thing that has gone wrong in the town for years, most notably by one particular councilman, using the druids as a way to garner attention/support. No one told the PCs, however, that the druids aren't evil - they're merely lesbians whose lifestyle offends the councilman.
77) This one is really, really touchy and borders on being politically incorrect. For a mature group, though, it could be part of a really meaningful campaign. A slow-acting plague has gripped a kingdom - nearly every person who has caught it has died, generally not before passing it on. The plague barely responds to magical healing, and those who have died from it are extraordinarily difficult to resurrect. For some reason, the homosexual population of the city is hardest-hit, causing the fearful public to blame them for it. Events akin to medieval witch-hunts have occured - those known to have the plague, or known to be homosexual, are publicly executed and their bodies burned. Now, though, several high-ranking members of society have caught the plague - and a local wizard thinks he knows how to stop it.
78) A certain tribe of elves has traditionally respected gay/bisexual tribe members - granting them special status and believing them to be spiritually elevated, and capable of strong magic. The tribe lives in peace next to a city of mostly humans. The humans revile the elves' acceptance of gays, and have little to do with them other than occasional trade. Yet the son/daughter of an influential person has run away from the city to join the elves. The elves have accepted the person into their tribe and promised to protect him/her, but the parents are vehement about wanting their child back and "fixed" - to the point of, if they are rich enough, hiring mercenaries to go to war with the tribe.
79) The son of a rich merchant (or daughter) was caught "in flagrante delicto" in the arms of their same-sex lover. The outraged parents (who ascribe to a religion which forbids homosexuality in all forms) have hired the PCs to escort their child to a temple which promises to "cure" homosexuality - unbeknownst to the PCs, using methods of brainwashing and near-torture. Perhaps other 'patients' of the temple have contacted the PCs, asking to be freed from what is virtually a prison.
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