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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saracenus" data-source="post: 8327887" data-attributes="member: 47839">D&D is not genderless. If there is a choice to play a gender, then D&D is perfectly suited to explore those issues. Now the assumptions of gender in OD&D/1e D&D are another kettle of fish. But, D&D is not encased in amber. The game has shifted its assumptions over time.I will let in on a little secret. When I started playing D&D back in 1979 every table I played at tinkered with the rules and assumptions of the game to make it our own (despite Gary Gygax's bombastic claim in Dragon Magazine that only stuff published by TSR(1) was the only way to play the game properly). Every table was mess of house rules and gaming customs. Believe me when I say Gary would not have recognized his narrow view of D&D/RPGs at the tables I played at. Everyone brings an identity to the table in D&D and at my table all are welcome. Everyone is welcome to explore that in the characters they want to play be it a rip off of some pop-culture character from TV/Movies, be just themselves, an aspect of themselves, something they want to try out, or even just roll some dice with very little personality at all.My main mantra is, "More Places To Play, More People To Play With." The idea that someone should not be able to play D&D with me because of their gender or sexual identity is alien to me.</blockquote>