Offended no. Concerned, yes.
Gotcha. It's OK as long as it's kept quit and no one tells you about it. Just like being Gay!
Offended no. Concerned, yes.
More or less.People are fine with ignoring the absolute importance of Christianity when playing a Medieval-inspired game because our Western society has long since embraced the idea of religious freedom.
(Now, you *could* make gay characters the majority in your setting and let an interesting background story evolve from the question why this is the case...)
If he didn't make the statement, I wouldn't know he was pushing an agenda and therefore we wouldn't be having this conversation.
First, what you do at your home game, if none of my business. If you brought an LGBT character to table at my home game, I would love to see the faces of the other players at my table who it would made completely uncomfortable. Other than that, I'd be cool with it. If you brought it to the game I run at a local private school, I'd make you OK it with the other players and make everyone swear not to tell any of the teachers or the school director, because they would probably fire me for allowing you to play it (although they would probably fire me anyway if they knew I was playing board games with students on the premises).
No. But if you tell a new source that you included the NPC in order to further your ideological agenda, like what happened in this case, it doesn't leave much to the imagination.
As far as I can tell, Crawford's ideological agenda on display here is:But if you tell a new source that you included the NPC in order to further your ideological agenda, like what happened in this case, it doesn't leave much to the imagination.
The thing is... gay people exist. They don't ask permission to exist, they just do. And sure, this is a gay character and not a gay person, but it seems like you're making an ideological statement yourself by expecting people to ask permission to play queer characters in your game. Do you ask people to ask the entire gaming group if it's okay they're playing a character of a certain alignment? If they're playing a specific race? If they're playing a person of color?
Don't take this the wrong way, but, Dude, I live in a country in which being gay can get the local priest to ask his choir boys to come over and drown you in a river - and it's not a uncommon occurrence. It is sensitive topic. Honestly, I would be doing it just as much for your safety as I would be for theirs, because it word got out that there was a chance you could be gay, your life would be in serious danger.