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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 8020310" data-attributes="member: 6750908">At the risk of sounding glib, it's rarely an option in games I play-- I am not white, I am primarily Germanic and Celtic, American ranging from fourth-generation immigrant to the people who watched the Mayflower landing.A lot of D&D settings are made up of thinly-veiled or deliberate nod-and-wink analogues to real-world cultures, but I've never felt as if my cultural heritage has been represented by any of them-- there are always "Barbarians from the Frozen North", but they don't much look like my Nordic ancestors. Except for the Dwarves and (sometimes) the Elves, the Scots-Irish analogues are just vestiges of forgotten cultures within the English analogues-- don't get me started-- and there's nary a trace of the cultural forces that shaped my Irish-American roots. There are very rarely analogues to American Indian nations in D&D settings and when there are... they're not like my cultural experiences at all.And that's probably a good thing, because nobody wants to play those games.In more general terms... in D&D, my human PCs are always male. If my character is not a mammal, and their species is not strongly gendered, I often go female because I find it amusing to misgender mammal PCs and then correct them when they refer to my character as he. (Unless it's not funny, then it fades into the background until "go lay eggs" becomes an excuse for why I need to go do something.) I play more nongendered characters or completely genderfluid characters, such as changelings, than female characters.To the extent my characters have a sexual orientation at all, they're only vaguely heteroseuxual and it's mostly in the background. Theoretically, I might play other sexual orientations-- most likely pan-- in a game where the other players are interested in exploring romances... otherwise, my characters are only heterosexual for political reasons.</blockquote>

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