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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8292310" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>Well, many players enjoy writing up lengthy backgrounds or coming up with goals for their PCs, which may involve romantic/sexual relationships as some point. This could be as simple as "After the brigands murdered by husband, I took up my sword and set out..." Or two players may decide that their characters are in a relationship. Obviously, not everyone wants to write up something like that with their characters--but I can't think of a group I've been in where at least <em>one </em>player hasn't included something like that in their PC's story. Even I've included things like that, and I'm aroace in real life.</p><p></p><p></p><p>You know how most gaming books, up until recently, used the male pronouns for everything, largerly because the default assumption was that the readers were guys. But then people realized that hey, women game too, and started including female or actually gender-neutral pronouns as well.</p><p></p><p>It's like that. Up until very recently, it was pretty much the default (in <em>all </em>media, not just gaming books) that a character was cis-gendered and heterosexual, because it was assumed that the reader/viewer was also cishet. Except that, surprise! There are plenty of people who aren't cis or het. So why not include them as well in the game?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8292310, member: 6915329"] Well, many players enjoy writing up lengthy backgrounds or coming up with goals for their PCs, which may involve romantic/sexual relationships as some point. This could be as simple as "After the brigands murdered by husband, I took up my sword and set out..." Or two players may decide that their characters are in a relationship. Obviously, not everyone wants to write up something like that with their characters--but I can't think of a group I've been in where at least [I]one [/I]player hasn't included something like that in their PC's story. Even I've included things like that, and I'm aroace in real life. You know how most gaming books, up until recently, used the male pronouns for everything, largerly because the default assumption was that the readers were guys. But then people realized that hey, women game too, and started including female or actually gender-neutral pronouns as well. It's like that. Up until very recently, it was pretty much the default (in [I]all [/I]media, not just gaming books) that a character was cis-gendered and heterosexual, because it was assumed that the reader/viewer was also cishet. Except that, surprise! There are plenty of people who aren't cis or het. So why not include them as well in the game? [/QUOTE]
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