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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8293143" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>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"?</p><p></p><p>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".</p><p></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 8293143, member: 7030563"] 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". 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. [/QUOTE]
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