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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7436253">Aside from the fact that I think the Blessing is a bit of an odd element to codify in the lore, there's all sorts of serious and humorous places it could be taken.&nbsp; A significantly sex-stratified elven society could see it as a terrible thing (as the Devs claim Drow do), and a previously downtrodden member of the &quot;wrong sex&quot; (no implications here anyone, just whichever sex is oppressed in the hypothetical society) being able to &quot;move up&quot; thanks to the Blessing.&nbsp; Or a member of the &quot;right sex&quot; might find some enlightenment in walking a mile in the downtrodden's shoes.&nbsp; Perhaps both the upper and lower sex's see those with the Blessing as &quot;sex traitors&quot; their allegiance always in question (in much the same way bisexuals are often mistreated by the LGBT community).&nbsp; Perhaps people with the Blessing are a incredibly small but generally &quot;untouchable&quot; underclass, being viewed as neither male, female or other but &quot;nothing&quot; because they are not &quot;committed&quot; to a given sex.Conversely, there are also humorous elements to be explored here.&nbsp; Those classic jokes of when a guy pretends to be a girl and after the charade now they have to keep up the illusion, and learns something in the process, falls in love as the other sex, finds sex to be a complete waste of time and becomes gender/sex neutral.&nbsp; For the most part, all of this is reliant on the collective agreement of the table and a honest good-natured approach.&nbsp; As soon as it turns into mocking one sex or another then that is a problem, and maybe with certain people it's easier to just not allow players to play with fire.&nbsp; Though I'd argue if there's a risk of people playing with fire, it's because someone is an arsonist.Yeah, fire is dangerous, but it has no motivation.&nbsp; Arsonists do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 7436253"] Aside from the fact that I think the Blessing is a bit of an odd element to codify in the lore, there's all sorts of serious and humorous places it could be taken. A significantly sex-stratified elven society could see it as a terrible thing (as the Devs claim Drow do), and a previously downtrodden member of the "wrong sex" (no implications here anyone, just whichever sex is oppressed in the hypothetical society) being able to "move up" thanks to the Blessing. Or a member of the "right sex" might find some enlightenment in walking a mile in the downtrodden's shoes. Perhaps [I]both[/I] the upper and lower sex's see those with the Blessing as "sex traitors" their allegiance always in question (in much the same way bisexuals are often mistreated by the LGBT community). Perhaps people with the Blessing are a incredibly small but generally "untouchable" underclass, being viewed as neither male, female or other but "nothing" because they are not "committed" to a given sex. Conversely, there are also humorous elements to be explored here. Those classic jokes of when a guy pretends to be a girl and after the charade now they have to keep up the illusion, and learns something in the process, falls in love as the other sex, finds sex to be a complete waste of time and becomes gender/sex neutral. For the most part, all of this is reliant on the collective agreement of the table and a honest good-natured approach. As soon as it turns into mocking one sex or another then that is a problem, and maybe with certain people it's easier to just not allow players to play with fire. Though I'd argue if there's a risk of people playing with fire, it's because someone is an arsonist. Yeah, fire is dangerous, but it has no motivation. Arsonists do. [/QUOTE]

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