"All halflings are heterosexual."

[Captain Tagon]

My wife's character (in her first RPG game, ever) is a female half-elf rogue who dresses up as a man. She does it every session, and the other players, in fact, think that her character is a man. She has a huge bonus to her disguise score and I have actually made random spot checks for the group, but I give her the benefit of the doubt, actually, because she made it up as part of her character background that her father forced her to dress as a man in order to hide her from her mother, who had turned evil. He was afraid that the mother would try to convert the daughter to evil (kind of a rip-off of Star Wars, but, hey, it was her first character).

I'm glad that I am not close-minded or have some kind of weird phobia about people cross-dressing. It would have ruined her character concept and frankly turned her off to gaming in general. I have a hard enough time as it is keeping her interested.

In general, I don't think it's unreasonable to allow people to pick their character's sexual orientation.

[snip]

Yes, but I'm pretty sure that women dressing as men isn't quite the cultural hot topic that homosexuality is in America today. Also, there is nothing about a female character who dresses as a male that makes me think they are homosexual which is what this whole issue came out of. The issue at hand was one dealing with this group that we really know nothing of except for one statement directly about homosexuality.

Cross dressing does not have nearly the same cultural bias attatched to it however, especially women dressing as men. The other way around would probably cause a bit more of a stir however. But even Tolkein had a woman dress up like a man.

 

[Samothdm]

Yes, but I'm pretty sure that women dressing as men isn't quite the cultural hot topic that homosexuality is in America today. Also, there is nothing about a female character who dresses as a male that makes me think they are homosexual which is what this whole issue came out of.

True. But, I was responding to the post left wherein the poster said that he/she would find it entirely in the DM's right to completely ban all LGBT (which I took to mean "lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transvestite") characters. I just don't see why someone would want to do that, personally.

Cross dressing does not have nearly the same cultural bias attatched to it however, especially women dressing as men. The other way around would probably cause a bit more of a stir however.

As sad as it is, I agree with you. But, but that's probably a whole other topic for discussion that probably doesn't belong here.

 

[Captain Tagon]

True. But, I was responding to the post left wherein the poster said that he/she would find it entirely in the DM's right to completely ban all LGBT (which I took to mean "lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transvestite") characters. I just don't see why someone would want to do that, personally.



As sad as it is, I agree with you. But, but that's probably a whole other topic for discussion that probably doesn't belong here.

Gotcha, all clear then. I just had no idea what they meant by LGBT so I kinda skipped past all that stuff.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

Incidentally, I am reminded of a unique character proposal I declined for my first PBEM. The character was a female elf who was "bi curious." The submitter went on to describe her character's body in detail, her tattoos, where and how she liked to be touched, etc.

 

[Crothian]

Incidentally, I am reminded of a unique character proposal I declined for my first PBEM. The character was a female elf who was "bi curious." The submitter went on to describe her character's body in detail, her tattoos, where and how she liked to be touched, etc.

There are obviously many, many ways to play these RPGs.....

 

[Samothdm]

The submitter went on to describe her character's body in detail, her tattoos,

I'd be fine with all that.

where and how she liked to be touched, etc.

And I would definitely draw the line there and put a stop to it.

I don't care whether a character wants his or her character to be gay or bi or whatever. That makes no difference to me. Perhaps they're just letting me know how their character will respond if I throw a romantic plot their way or something.

But, there's no need to be specific about sexual details, whether they are straight or gay or whatever. That doesn't have any place in my games.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

...I was responding to the post left wherein the poster said that he/she would find it entirely in the DM's right to completely ban all LGBT (which I took to mean "lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transvestite") characters. I just don't see why someone would want to do that, personally.

Ah, but the beauty of it being someone else's game is that you don't have to see why.

 

[Darkness]

... There's a very strange undercurrent in modern society ...

... But that's another issue with our society that I have ...

EN World is not the place to discuss modern-day social issues. So please don't. Thanks!

 

[Driddle]

EN World is not the place to discuss modern-day social issues. So please don't. Thanks!

??? Not even if they disrupt a gaming situation?
I'm pretty sure we've discussed racial genocide here as well. And the chastity pledges of paladin characters. Chances are we could even spin off a good thread about underage drinking, too (after all, my 17-year-old mage saunters into local taverns all the time).

It might be interesting to review the official list of "modern-day" social issues.

 

[Awakened]

I bet She left because she was bent on playing a gay halfing and
the DM ruined her character concept.