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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3748690" data-attributes="member: 8439">in terms of glbt, I've played a couple of Amazon characters from tribes who lived in a symbiotic relationship with the nearby villages. The longest running of those was a brash Ale and Whores sort of fighter - she just happened to be female. She showed some interest in a fellow party member but didn't ever push things with her.In a d20 modern play by post, we were all supposed to be soldiers in the modern gulf war. I decided to play cross gender because (imo) a female soldier in the modern military is a strong character archetype itself and I felt would interfere with developing the character I wanted to play. After some thinking I decided the intelligence officer I was playing was somewhere between "asexual nerd" and "so far in the closet he still has one foot in Narnia." Some of his talents required him to choose a "target gender" or somesuch and I chose men for him - but he connected with men on more of an intelectual than emotional level and pretty much had no sexual interests at all. Whether this was due to being a late bloomer combined with an early decision that military intelligence was his goal in life and he had better agressivly avoid asking himself questions he didn't want answers to is an exercise for the reader.There were a couple of other characters for whom sex played a strong role in their background or characterization. One of my only evil-ish characters had decided at about 12 that she wanted to be a widow when she grew up (due to a poor history of her female relitives surviving more than one childbirth and a social status that made getting married a non-optional destiny) and murdered several husbands. Her fear of birth and by association sex was one of her defining characteristics.On the other hand, Sara the happy gladiator had no problems with sex, but found other warriors distinctly unappealing. See, in her mind, pit whores and weakling bimbos slept with gladiators. She was a gladiator. She ended up attaching herself to a fellow PC who was a halfling wizard. She thought he was cute, smart and needed her to take good care of him.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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