Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins holding a character sheet.
- Bilbo: “After all, why not?”
Panel 2: character sheet now has a transgender pride flag in it.
- Bilbo: “Why shouldn’t I make this character trans?”
Should a changing really have a gender?
According to official Eberron lore, gender is just another aspect of themselves to change and morph around, which I interpret to mean that most of em are pangender or gender apathetic, or something else along those lines.
I have an elven Barbarian whom I have been meaning to use in a campaign for a while now. tl;dw: His dad is an abusive racial supremacist who had very fixed ideas of how my Barbarian should be and act like, but could never live up to.
Just recently I realized that he could be very easily interpreted as a trans allegory, and decided to go the extra mile. So now he’s a trans man.
When I was recruiting for a game this summer, one of the questions I asked applicants was ‘How do you feel about “politics” in games?’. I wanted to fish out who was going to throw a fit when they met a gay couple in-game. Or when other parts of the game weren’t extremely traditional or reactionary.
I’m playing a genderfluid character in a play-by-post superheroes game, and hoping I’m not doing terribly at it.
I like player races that don’t typically have a concept of sex or gender. It’s one of the fun things to play with that’s just built in to warforged and leshy. “So are you a boy or a girl?” “…I’m a cactus.”
Yea same. My last few characters have been some sort of gender fluid. My current one I put demiboy. But for the one before I put “what is gender?” As my gender and made it a whole thing about how they were a half elf who was lost/abandoned and raised in the mountains by all kinds of creatures and shapeless/genderless things and gender had never been a thing they considered or needed with their people.
And furthermore, since it was a human social construct that they didn’t need to use until they entered more general society with more humans and they were skeptical of it because they were skeptical of human ideas. In general they are skeptical/suspicious of humanoids because the first time they really encountered humans was when a group of humanoids came into their mountains, killed a bunch of their people including their mentor/father figure and caused them to leave and “integrate” into general society to survive, and now they are stuck with all these weird concepts like money, property, and gender.
