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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5704392" data-attributes="member: 463">Thing is, when I've played a PC like that, the DM didn't notice!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />In a game centred on killing orcs and trying not to die, the sexuality of a PC who isn't very 'open' about it, as you say, often simply will not be apparent.  It can be hard for the GM to distinguish between a realistically played character, and one where the player simply hasn't thought about the sexuality of the PC at all.In my case my PC Zana Than was a female Ironborn Fighter in the grim Midnight setting, very tough and determined to follow in the footsteps of her Sarcosan noble father Lord Than, a flamboyant ladies' man who had impregnated and abandoned Zana's low-born mother.  But Zana was about the exact opposite of flamboyant, she was extremely reserved and unexpressive, except occasionally when she got angry.  She was in love with another female PC, Jess, but she was not sure whether that was 'Platonic' or not.  She also clumsily tried to court a handsome young male NPC by giving him gifts of treasure taken on raids against the Shadow forces, but the (female) GM did not pick up on that, and I did not explain it OOC.So, my feeling is that if you want realistic depictions of non-flamboyant sexuality in an RPG, the GM will have to make some effort to focus the game on interpersonal relations, to pick up on relatively subtle cues - difficult with 6 players at the table - and/or make efforts to address the question OOC.</blockquote>

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