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<blockquote data-quote="Goddess FallenAngel" data-source="post: 2298852" data-attributes="member: 11434"><p>I had a DM in 2nd edition D&D rule that the succubus' powers worked only on straight males and lesbians. </p><p></p><p>I was playing a succubus at the time. Not a big deal, I thought, it makes sense, especially since there was a male version called an incubus. Same thing, but slanted towards females.</p><p></p><p>Made sense, that is, until every guard, npc, and BBEG that my character tried to use her powers on was gay. Not female, which would have made at least some sense, but gay male.</p><p></p><p>Turns out, unbeknowst to me when I joined the game, that the DM did something similiar to all the characters' special powers or specializations. Didn't game with that DM for long after that.</p><p></p><p>That said, it makes sense on at least some level, and in my game I do have <em>some</em> gender-biased house rules - but they are always balanced by a house rule for the opposite gender (for instance, succubuses and incubuses always travel together, unless on a specific mission). Drow females have a favored class cleric, males favored class wizard. Stuff like that.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, none of the house rules have ever come into play - although I have had a player play a gay male before, and group discussion about the topic spawned said house rules (even though we never used them). In other words, I think my group ended up in category 1 of Darkfang's list. <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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goddess FallenAngel, post: 2298852, member: 11434"] I had a DM in 2nd edition D&D rule that the succubus' powers worked only on straight males and lesbians. I was playing a succubus at the time. Not a big deal, I thought, it makes sense, especially since there was a male version called an incubus. Same thing, but slanted towards females. Made sense, that is, until every guard, npc, and BBEG that my character tried to use her powers on was gay. Not female, which would have made at least some sense, but gay male. Turns out, unbeknowst to me when I joined the game, that the DM did something similiar to all the characters' special powers or specializations. Didn't game with that DM for long after that. That said, it makes sense on at least some level, and in my game I do have [i]some[/i] gender-biased house rules - but they are always balanced by a house rule for the opposite gender (for instance, succubuses and incubuses always travel together, unless on a specific mission). Drow females have a favored class cleric, males favored class wizard. Stuff like that. Honestly, none of the house rules have ever come into play - although I have had a player play a gay male before, and group discussion about the topic spawned said house rules (even though we never used them). In other words, I think my group ended up in category 1 of Darkfang's list. :) [/QUOTE]
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