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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5705744" data-attributes="member: 14159">When I'm a GM, I normally never make an issue of it.  I might use lovers/partners/spouses as a background/storytelling reference in passing.  However, once I had a PC who insisted that his Elven Enchanter was not only heterosexual, but promiscuous and at least a little lecherous.  Since he was wealthy and fairly high-level, there were running jokes about the trollops he often brought to his tower at the keep. . .and the party Cleric having to dispense Remove Disease and other treatment spells periodically.  I used it for a plot hook when I had one of those harlots turn out to be a succubus that was trying to infiltrate their keep.  That's the most that any orientation-based RP has gone in any campaign I've run.Now, I've seen it played, but only as a joke.  The worst case I can recall was a lesbian Kender sorcerer in a Planescape game, played by a heterosexual male.  He often tried to slip in jokes about the orientation, of which maybe one or two over the course of the campaign were mildly funny (but definitely NOT to be repeated here), but typically fell very flat if not generally offensive.  It only reenforced my desire to keep sexual orientation out of games, as a general rule.Not sexual orientation, but in terms of gender identity I've seen that come up as well.  A person I used to game with way-back-when (a decade or more ago) always either played characters of the opposite sex, or characters with various spells/powers that could let them shapeshift between genders (regardless of the system, they'd find a way, or find an excuse to not play).  Of course, when she came out to us, it was a surprise to absolutely nobody.  That person came out a few years after all that and now lives as a woman, and apparently was using gaming to sort through gender identity issues they didn't want to consciously admit to.</blockquote>

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