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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6348524" data-attributes="member: 11697">So yesterday marked the appearance of <a href="http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lgcn" target="_blank">Shardra Geltl</a>, Paizo's iconic shaman who happens to be a transgender woman, and the posting of a list of <a href="http://wesschneider.tumblr.com/post/93277599246/50-lgbtq-characters-in-the-pathfinder-rpg" target="_blank">50 LGBTQ characters from Pathfinder</a>. Paizo/Pathfinder have been incredibly inclusive and IMO they deserve recognition for that.WotC is beginning to take some steps in that direction as well (the inclusive language on gender and sexuality in 5e was welcome to see), and it got me thinking that while Pathfinder has had an incredible diversity of LGBTQ characters, how many have appeared in D&D proper?Off the top of my head I can't actually think of many (though I only started gaming with 3e, so shallow experience with earlier editions), with only 1e's Rufus and Burne, and in 4e Shemeshka the Marauder and her former apprentice Shylara the Manged (which I wrote, though admittedly for those two, gender and sexuality in shapeshifting fiends is a fluid subject). I can think of a few others from novels (Jarlaxle for instance), but not too many when it comes to RPG material.</blockquote>