Gay dungeons and dragons

Here's why DnD has so many great LGBTQ+ characters Dungeons and Dragons is for everyone at the tabletop, and the game showcases this best with the inclusion of iconic queer characters. Dungeons and Dragons' player base has become more diverse. Soon I started to feel like maybe the waters were in need of testing.

Just rolling up a character and taking for granted that I could make her whatever leaped out at me. Even amongst a group of nerdy teenage outcasts rolling dice in a basement I saw this as likely a step too far. Simon would cross-dress to attempt to recapture that form only to find it fueled his self-hatred in preferring the beauty of his captured changeling form to his human body.

I found it safer to be myself gay proxy through a monitor. It was one of those moments of pure nostalgic joy that transcended age or game editions. Absent a steady source of in-person gaming outside that group, I took my desire to play RPGs onlineto the early days of the internet with dial-up connections and text-based chatrooms on America Online.

While no one was explicitly trans, there were multiple queer identities present, with characters that reflected that, and even the seemingly hetero cis man who ran one of the groups would often play female characters while DMing.

What might have been more surprising for younger me, going by a different name, living as a different gender, and not imagining that such a thing could ever truly change, is that Blue the half-orc was a female character, and that the process of creating her for the game that night was incredibly simple.

It was fertile ground to create a character dealing with trauma, and I planted my seeds in the form of Simon Verona. No agonizing dungeon her creation, no debating if I could pull it off. It was the sort of thing that I could see the teenage version of myself feeling equally excited about.

In the very first tabletop roleplaying game I gay capital of europe played, the second edition of Werewolf the ApocalypseI found myself tempted by the possibility of exploring gender through my character.

Not only is it a more welcoming place for women and people of color, but now, D&D is also pretty gay. It was rejected, and I went with a more simplified concept, but I always found myself drawn to those types of ideas. Simon, who I played with an atrocious Northern English accent, had been transformed by his fae keeper into a form of feminine beauty, only to have his mortal form restored upon his and.

I always assumed I was in a small minority as a gay DnD player but no, after years of engaging with the community I've come to the conclusion that there's a good chance most of the dragon who read this are LGBT+. Simon was an angry, bitter character, who hated the very vision of his face in the mirror.

I took a bit of a hiatus from RPGs in college, distracted by school and the time consuming early days of my stand-up career. Here there were countless communities with dice-roller macros built into chat; making a character sheet was as easy as filling in a PDF and creating a new screen name.

I've been wondering what might be the reason for that overlap, I personally played DnD as a kid long before I knew I was gay so I'm curious what other people think the reason might be. While I created typical male characters again when joining the group, I quickly became aware of how much more diverse the voices were.

I joined in on a session of Changeling the Losta game that centered around humans who had returned to the mortal realm after having been kidnapped and held in captivity by the fae. I had pitched to my GM game master the idea that my character was someone who would adopt a female persona as part of his litany of disguises.

I returned in my mids by joining a local live-action roleplaying group that played regular games in a small underground strip mall next to a boba tea shop on the Ohio State campus. I had neither the courage or self-awareness to just flat out pitch playing a female character.

Were I able to speak to the late Mr. The way that Dungeons and Dragons and the games it inspired helped me find my real self. Feature image and all other queer Dungeons and Dragons art from the 10th edition of the Player’s Handbook. How Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop roleplaying games help members of the LGBTQ+ community discover their identities.