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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GiantInThePlayground" data-source="post: 705438" data-attributes="member: 8416">(Must...get topic....back on track!)Well, over the last 3 years of playing D&D, we have definitely had homosexuality enter our games. This is not really surprising, since two of my players are themselves gay men, and (as a designer working in New York's West Village) I have many gay friends, of both genders.I'll say first that neither of the two gay men has actually played a homosexual character in the time we've gamed together (though the speedster one has created for our upcoming Mutants and Masterminds game *is* a male model in his civilian identity). However, as DM, I felt it was important not to have the campaign world marginalize or persecute homosexuals. As more than one person has said, most people don't want the politics of the real world invading their D&D game, but for gay players, it kind of works the other way. For them, intolerance and homophobia are realities; wouldn't it stand to reason that they might enjoy a fantasy game where their sexual orientation was fully accepeted? Thus, I made a conscious effort to include homosexuality in the fabric of my home campaign world, though I've hardly drowned the players in it, either. What can I say, I play to the audience with which I've been presented. Here are some of the situations that I've featured:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> As was touched on by other posters, I got the players involved in a murder mystery: a series of assassinations in a pair of wealthy families that seemed to make no sense until it was revealed that the youngest daughters of each House were lovers. They allowed themselves to be married to each other's older brother, then killed them both (along with anyone else further up the line of succession). The result was a single unified family, twice as rich, legally under their control.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> An elven necromancer who had spent the last 100 years sitting alone in his tower, mourning the loss of the human man whom he had once loved (but had died of old age decades ealier).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The Nordic barbarian types have a tradition that one of my players nicknamed the, "Love the One You're With" syndrome, after the song. Basically, the night before Big Impending Doom, they celebrate the "joys of the flesh" before they are liberated from it. Gender notwithstanding.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Medusae, harpies, and hags are ONLY female. You do the math.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The goddess of love is completely supportive of all orientations; but one of her chief rivals is the goddess of childbirth, who wants only heterosexual sex for the purposes of reproduction. Neither is right or wrong, both are Good-aligned, they just don't see eye to eye.</li> </ul>Whether or not you introduce topics like these is ultimately a choice between you and your players; I doubt I would have made such an effort if my players were all straight, for example. Hopefully, this helps the original poster and anyone else thinking about these issues.</blockquote>

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