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[Henadic Theologian]

One thing I'm curious about is how does titles work for trans characters. Like in the real world They/Their for example works for day to day life, but in a D&D setting what do you call them if they become Baron/Baroness, Duke/Dutchess, King/Queen, Czar/Czarina, Emperor/Empress, Priest/Priestess, Sorcerer/Sorceress, is their terminology for gendered titles and other unorthodox pronouns for Trans characters in D&D?

In real life this is unlikely to come up unless you buy land in Scotland, in D&D it's a solid possibility.

 

[imagineGod]

One thing I'm curious about is how does titles work for trans characters. Like in the real world They/Their for example works for day to day life, but in a D&D setting what do you call them if they become Baron/Baroness, Duke/Dutchess, King/Queen, Czar/Czarina, Emperor/Empress, Priest/Priestess, Sorcerer/Sorceress, is their terminology for gendered titles and other unorthodox pronouns for Trans characters in D&D?

In real life this is unlikely to come up unless you buy land in Scotland, in D&D it's a solid possibility.

Priest and Sorcerer are currently used by default instead of Priestess and Sorceress for both male and female titles. In theory such can be used similarly by all others, except for Queen, because Queen has a strong history of powerful women rulers in their own right behind it.

 

[Yaarel]

One thing I'm curious about is how does titles work for trans characters. Like in the real world They/Their for example works for day to day life, but in a D&D setting what do you call them if they become Baron/Baroness, Duke/Dutchess, King/Queen, Czar/Czarina, Emperor/Empress, Priest/Priestess, Sorcerer/Sorceress, is their terminology for gendered titles and other unorthodox pronouns for Trans characters in D&D?

In real life this is unlikely to come up unless you buy land in Scotland, in D&D it's a solid possibility.

Gender-neutral Medieval titles.

• Apprentice, Journeyer (not Journeyman), Master (not Mistress), Grandmaster
• Sovereign or Monarch or Highness (not King or Queen or Emperor or Empress)
• Czar
• Noble (not Lord/Lady, Duke/Dutchess)
• Knight or Honorable (not sire/dame, sir/madam)
• Fine folk (not "ladies and gentlemen"), with a flourish "all fine folk assembling here"
• Head of household (not "man/lady of the house")
• Chief
• Officer
• Divinity (not God)
• immortal (not god or goddess)
• Priest (not priestess), Pope (not popess)
• Sorcerer (not sorceress)
• Enchanter (not enchantress)
• Witch (not warlock)
• Ancestor or Parent (not father or mother)
• Descendant or Child or Progeny or Scion (not son or daughter)
• Sibling or Sib (not brother/sister, bro/sis)
• Cousin or Cuz (probably refer to aunt and uncle as "cousins", exact meaning of distant relations starts getting confusing anyway)
• Chieftain (probably better than patriarch/matriarch of a clan, large extended family)

 

[imagineGod]

I forgot the iconic "Imperatrix Mundi" or Empress of the a World.

 

[ECMO3]

Mod Note:

Please - not "transgenders", but "transgender people". Keep the focus on the fact that they are not just a package of gender walking around, but are, in fact, human beings, please.

Keep the focus on the fact they are people while we are trying to find a way to typify, pigeonhole and stereotype them? How about we just have "people"?

The majority of my PC characters are halflings, elves or half-elves, so as a point of fact they are not "human beings". Moreover this illustrates my original point; PCs and NPCs in D&D are a "package" of traits, statistics etc. written on a character sheet or NPC card. You can't get away from that, it is an integral part of the game mechanics and gender identity and sexual preference have no business being part of that "package".

Again, please. It isn't as if you can't depict a romantic couple without having pornography. That kind of overstatement is not constructive. Please tone down the rhetoric a few notches.

And their sexual preference or gender identity is completely irrelevant to this. You can depict a romantic couple without announcing they are "homosexual people" or "transgender people" or any other type of people. There is no logical reason to even bring this into the discussion unless you want to stereotype them.

I have played hundreds of men and women characters in FR settings. Probably about 30% male, 70% female. How/why is it these characters are all assumed to be "cis gendered, heterosexual people/elves/halflings/half-orcs" etc? I have never said nor implied such.

 

[imagineGod]

In a non-magical low fantasy setting father and mother are crucial for human procreation, and hence many cultures have that word focus different from just any adult human.

Now, don't you wish we just play hack-n-slash so that human procreation is never an issue in play, just in the background never mentioned.

 

[ECMO3]

Wow, you all have played some prudish (not quite the right word) campaigns. I don't think I have ever played in a game where that was not at least one PC hitting on the barmaid when the party went to a tavern, especially in a group full of horny teens. You all must have also never had a dating or married couple in your gaming groups, because a lot of times, those couples end up playing PCs that are also involved together.

I am not prudish at all. I am ex-Navy and virtually nothing in terms of graphic sex or language offends me. IRL I have participated in sex with both men and women, both cis and trans, to include two members of past gaming groups.

This just never came up to date in games I play, and I can't see a real reason for it to come up in games. Moreover, it has nothing to do with the subject at hand. Sexual preference and gender identity has nothing to do with the example you give above. Unless you start describing biological specifics and physical realities their gender identity and sexual preference is irrelevant.

Now if your campaign goes down the path that said raped barmaid can't get pregnant from the horny teens because she is a transgendered woman instead of a cis gendered woman and physically can't get pregnant, or vice-versa - well then gender identity could be relevant, but I have never seen that in actual play. I still can't think of any reason at all why sexual preference would be relevant to the situations quoted above.

 

[Umbran]

Yet ...

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[imagineGod]

Also languages have son very common in surnames, in English for example: Johnson, Jackson, etc.

In Spanish, a gendered language you get names like: María de la Luz / Maria de los Angeles.

 

[Umbran]

This just never came up, and I can't see a real reason for it to come up in games.

This amounts to, "I don't do this, so nobody else should ever want to either." Is that really a solid position?