Re: Homosexual monsters in D&D

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keith....@kjdavies.org wrote:
>tussock <sc...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>> Jim Davies wrote:

>>> As a point of incidental fact, there's an NPC gay couple in
>>> Pathfinder's Rise of the Runelords AP. The relationship forms a minor
>>> plot point.
>>
>> In B5, the witches in the woods are fairly obviously an older gay
>> couple. There's likely heaps of them tucked away here and there if you look.
>>
>> Paizo just pointed it out in the text, that two of the long-term male
>> friends in town are gay. Officially, they have quite a lot of gay and
>> bisexual NPCs, including at least one of the major villians and some
>> world-shakers, and "AT LEAST" one of the iconics is gay (though they won't
>> state which one in that case). Almost all of the potential love interests
>> are unspecified to let them be whatever works for each group.
>
>As I recall, Lheo (Elminster's scribe and helper) was reputed to be gay.
>I understand it was a false reputation; there's at least one scene
>post-hookup between Lheo and Storm What's-Her-Name, IIRC.
>
>Mind you, at that Elminster was one of the most thoroughly transgendered
>characters _ever_, literally changing from male to female and back.

ElMonster was also the biggest munchkin in the Munchkin Realms.

>> It's all very positive and enlightened and terribly anacronistic.

Fantasy Wargaming, as far as I know, is the only gamne to accurately portray the
time period.

>> You know why they burnt witches at the stake IRL? Because that's what they
>> called lesbians at the time, and murdering every last one of them was a
>> rather popular trick for travelling entertainers.

I guess we should consider ourselves lucky you didn't repeat the "faggot"
etymology nonsense too.

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