There was a set of captioned gifs I saw once from something (I think Sleepy Hollow maybe?) where someone who has been out of touch with our society for a very long time indicates two people and says "is that kind of thing acceptable now?", and gets a nice little lecture about same-sex couples and acceptance and tolerance, to which he responds "I meant men wearing hats indoors."
D&D 5E 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?
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There was a set of captioned gifs I saw once from something (I think Sleepy Hollow maybe?) where someone who has been out of touch with our society for a very long time indicates two people and says "is that kind of thing acceptable now?", and gets a nice little lecture about same-sex couples and acceptance and tolerance, to which he responds "I meant men wearing hats indoors."
TheCosmicKid
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Man, that show. What a waste. Ichabod Crane's observations of modern culture and politics are always so hilarious, and the actual plots are always so boring. It would have been much better if he was just solving mundane crimes. A little like New Amsterdam, I guess.
doctorbadwolf
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What point are you trying to make?
How is any f that relevant t what you quoted?
Mistwell
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It's about as relevant as you citing alien invasion movies as examples of realistic facets of life.
Lwaxy
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doctorbadwolf
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Except that we are talking about fictional worlds and how we interact with them, so my point was 100% relevant to the discussion.
That aside, art reflects life. In real life, people care about their loved ones, and seek them out in times of crisis. In times of existential crisis, as in giant disasters, or invading armies, or whathaveyou, we seek them out to try and keep them safe, or in order to not leave them behind on our way out of the danger zone.
If, in that sort of scenario, an adventure doesn't feature any mention whatsoever of anyone's family, spouse, lover, etc, then that adventure is failing, by going out of it's way to ignore one of the most important aspects of life.
If it does make mention of such things, the sexual preferences and identities of characters will come up. There is no way to avoid that without avoiding showing the basic humanity of the characters in the adventure/novel/whatever.
CaptainGemini
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Yes. Some people are actually bothered by it. Just like there was outrage over the lesbian scene in the first Mass Effect, there will be outrage over a gay couple in a module.
You can't please everyone. If you choose to be inclusive of LGBT people, you need to accept that you're going to tick some people off.
Mouseferatu
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Mustrum_Ridcully
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I don't know if it it actually works, but it seems a reasonable start to make it clear in your game rules that "non-standard" forms of sexuality or gender identification are accepted.
Even if the game setting itself might have the expected "backwards" pseudo-medieval social standards (beginning from Nobility being seen as inherently better than regular people, over women being only used to marry away and have children, to gays being seen as abominations and what not), we players should not.
And over time, the people you tick off will be less and less, as people get used to the unfamiliar. Which is pretty much the whole point of doing it in the first place.
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