No Homosexuality in my Campaign?

[Agback]

The more I read this the more I have to question, like half the other people posting, why this is such an issue for you.

Answering for myself:

I don't run adventures set in society rather than in dungeons: mysteries and intrigues rather than dungeon raids. That being the case, individual motivations are more use to me in constructing adventures than races are, and the side people take in the war between the alignments. In my adventures it is often important for the characters to work out or guess what an NPC's motivation is. The more possible motivations the NPCs might have, the more options I have in adventure design.

For instance, in my current campaign the PCs are working for an able and honest magistrate who is trying to rid Thekla (a major city) of violent crime (Barminian). He was for nineteen years a member of an elite military unit (modelled on the Sacred Band of Thebes) that consists of couples of male lovers. But he got his current job because he married a grand-daughter of the Emperor (Princess Rani). She, until her marriage, was in love with a handsome and gallant youngster, a member of the Hundred Youths (Arpad).

The campaign is a political intrigue complicated by romantic motivations. It is far more important that Barminian might be gay and Rani in a loveless marriage than what rooms open off the Warriors' Hall in the official palace of the Metropolitan Prefect of Thekla.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

For example, a noble's enemies might kidnap his/her same-sex lover. Maybe the PCs are then asked to rescue that person.

Swearing revenge for the death of your lover is also common in fantasy. This lover can very well be of the same gender. Considering how much a typical D&D group fights, somebody just might swear revenge against the PCs.

And so on. The possibilities are many.

There would be a great curve! "To defeat the (enemy), defeat his love." Everyone just assumes it's his sham of a wife...turns out it's his general, or some near-anonymous courtier. Or switch the genders, etc.

 

[ecliptic]

In my world elves are of genetic and mental perfection. There are no disease or mental diseases. There is no homosexuality either.

 

[eyebeams]

In my world elves are of genetic and mental perfection. There are no disease or mental diseases. There is no homosexuality either.

In my world, paladins take special care to hunt down and correct or kill homophobes, because paladins are perfect champions of goodness. The gods of justice despise bigots.

 

[Piratecat]

Annnnnnd we're done. Ecliptic, we don't especially care what your personal opinion of homosexuality is, but your post is patently offensive. That's a good example of an opinion you're much better keeping to yourself.

Klunk.