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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5707264" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=6677945]SnowleopardVK[/MENTION]Just caught up on this thread and at first glance it seemed a little silly (who wants that much drama in a game?), I think you had a very intelligent observation and I'm sorry to say I dismissed it too quickly.I used to game with a bi-sexual lady who played a bi character who was more bloodthirsty than anything else, my last campaign was with a straight couple who gender-swapped as a twist on their marital dynamic and switched between comic and dramatic, and now game with a gay man whose PC is gay but it's mainly in the background like the rest of our PCs' sexuality. None of these people played a LGBT character who was conflicted or struggling with being outed.I'm sure they all had struggles with their sexuality (yes even the straight couple) at some point, but when we gather around be game table we just have too much fun to get deeply into psychological issues. Which is funny cause here I am as a straight guy and I am fascinated by those sorts of character-defining struggles; with the right group I would welcome that sort of deep character study (regarding sexuality or any other inner conflicts) as a breath of fresh air. My limited experience with any sexual issues in an RPG came through my namesake elven ranger, but while a well developed character he was immensely comic and his bi-sexuality was caught up in that. Actual bi-sexual isn't entirely accurate cause he also spoke of "making love to the alders, the meadows, the autumn breeze, and the elk spirits"... Maybe just 'sexual'? The character was a lot of fun, I had to reign myself in not to distract us from the quest and the DM's world. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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