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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2881369" data-attributes="member: 32740">Heroes of Legend was published in 1988; Heroes for Tomorrow was published in 1989.  Jaquays certainly wasn't trying to preach (at least not in my perception), but with each successive book he DID make it clearer that he was not exactly burying his personal religious perspective either.  In the first two books he listed homosexuality under the broad personality category of "Sexual Disorders" which also included transexualism, complete disinterest, shyness, bisexuality, transvestitism, nymphomania/saytrism, domination, sadism, masochism, prude, voyeur, fetish/fixations, and xenophilia.  These were associated with the term "darkside personality traits" as opposed to lightside and neutral (as well as some that would be randomly generated between those three categories.)  So, he's a clueless, offensive git for calling homosexuality a "darkside" sexual disorder - but not for classifying shyness and prudism as also being "darkside" sexual disorders?  The preface to the table, before the instructions paragraph itself stated [emphasis mine] {additional wordage in Heroes for Tomorrow}:In the section on "Roleplay" along with other notes he starts by reiterating:IMO, his choices here can be attributed to a simple need to categorize a wide variety of... atypical behaviors for purposes of random generation as much as any personal bias.  He may have drawn some offended responses - perhaps even deservedly - but it seems to me he was attempting NOT to offend and to at least provide valid reason to handle the category differently if your own real-world perceptions differed from his quantifications.in 1991 in Heroes Now! the table for "Sexual Perversions" was gone entirely.  In its place was a short paragraph position statement and some explanation, essentially amounting to saying, "This is what *I* believe.  If you really want to include sexual perversion in your roleplaying games AT ALL that's your own affair.  I'm not even going to list the possibilites anymore so just pick something appropriate for this result and move on."Maybe he could be given a LITTLE slack...</blockquote>

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