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Message: <blockquote data-quote="khantroll" data-source="post: 5704993" data-attributes="member: 95652">Most of the D&D playing groups I've been with haven't really tackled it, mainly because of the real life makeup of the tables and the fact that D&D is usually not a platform that supports it. We have, myself included, taken the joke angle with homosexual characters before. One of my player's even does it regularly as part of a perform check for his rogue. I have played in a Vampire game one time that was populated by gay, straight, lesbian, and bi characters, typically matching the orientation of the players. There wasn't any angst, though; and the only self-realization came when one of the characters decided she was a lesbian instead of bi. Generally, though, in a game like that (sexually charged, acting heavy game played by a bunch of artists), you aren't going to treat it like group therapy. You're only going to show the part of you that has it together, or the way you wish your crap was together. One of the gay players in that group, for instance, was an aspiring interior designer (yeah, I know cliche; I made jokes at the time). In game, he was that; a gay vampire interior designer that specialized in designing spaces for vampires. In real life, in the small town he lived in, I doubt more then 10 people knew he was gay, and he just faded into the background all the time. If we expand the category to sexuality in general, my currant character may be a viable example. He was capture by drow, and because my DM is a sadistic jerk, he is raped by the female clerics. My response (thanks to my college psychology classes) was have the character transform into a physcial self-improvement nut with a love-hate relationship with drow elves and drow culture. He hates that they made him a victim, and wants to prove that he's better then them, and he hates that he loves them. I've actually had some good RP segments with that, and the DM's love of drow gives me ample opportunity to act that on facet of the character.</blockquote>

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