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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 3748550" data-attributes="member: 43283">I apparently surprised the GM and other players (including my wife) this past game we played. Setting is strongly historical (AD 170 roman) based, and the previous game, my character (A 40 year old semi retired Optio in the legion) had taken a female slave as his loot. He hadn't really bothered taking anything up until then, and there were a number of jokes starting to be made about just why the character had taken the slave, and my wife had given me the fish-eye as well.After a few minutes of this, I turned to the GM and said, "As I recall, they didn't really have a huge taboo against homosexual activity, is that correct? The attitudes basically varied with some people against it, and others openly gay, and at the end of the day as long as Rome got what it wanted, they didn't really care. No laws against it specifically, yes?"The GM looked sort of confused and said, "Well... yeah. Nothing that I remember, so it's not a big deal. Why?" pause...."Oh. You mean...?"And I said, "Yup. Tiberius is gay."Tiberius also happens to be a rather adpet fellow with doing a Trip attack followed with a free Attack, and has put down several of the tougher opponents we've faced by keeping them tripped and stabbing 'em while they're down. And he's recently crucified a rebel that had attacked the romans, in addition to having been engaged in banditry of a general sort. "Violator of the Pax Romana" was the sign attached to his cross. He's LN, shaves his head, and is partially inspired by Apone from Aliens (yeah, Tiberius really loves the legion).I don't play female characters (never have), but sex and sexuality is something I've made deliberate and conscious choices about for me characters. My last character (Kobold Dragon Shaman) was seriously into partying and women. Early on, I told the GM the kobold was going to head on off for a night on the town. The GM said, "What sort of 'night on the town' are you thinking of?" as the kobold had already established a talent for trouble."I'm going to blow all my gold and hookers and booze!"The rest of the table suddenly paused in their various plans and side chatter and looked over at me."Just how much money do you intend to spend?""Well.... I've got a 150 gold, so I'll blow whatever is left after I get some fresh chickens for eating." The player that had a dwarf groaned loudly and asked me, "What about buying any gear you might need for the future?!?!" I shrugged and said, "I'll steal it, borrow money from one of you guys, or just do without. If Kissik dies, he dies. He's not going to hoard money on the off-chance he might need to buy something later when there's women, booze, and chickens to be had now."The GM asked, "So what kind of...ladies.... is Kissik looking for? It might be kinda hard to find any that are willing to mess around with Kobolds, and I'm not sure there's any Kobold hookers in Sharn."To which I replied, "Kissik likes the ladies. He's going to a brothel, and his requirement is 1) Female, 2)Doesn't hate Kobolds, and 3) Likes to eat chicken."Turned out the GM had the book of Erotic Fantasy, so he got to roll up a social disease for the Kobold. Luckily we had an NPC cleric as the disease was apparently fatal. No surprise there.I don't go for explicit descriptions or anything like that, but yeah... my characters (regardless of race) don't ignore sex. I think part of the reason why it's never been an issue in any of the games I've played in over the years is because I'm very explicit about not wanting explicit details or anything like that. It's just one of those things that my characters indulge (or very religiously don't indulge) in.</blockquote>

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