Gay dungeons and dragons
Dungeons and Dragons possess been around since 1974 and has only grown bigger and, arguably, enhanced over time. What started as a game that was clearly targeted towards white, cis, heterosexual men, has been expanded on in a way that’s much more diverse and accepting than it was before.
Identity is one of the most vital things in D&D. You cast off who you really are, and step into the shoes of a ethics that’s come from both your heart and mind. For those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, there’s always been a certain thrill of being a nature whose sexuality and gender can aide you come to terms with your very own.
There is, of course, still a long way to go. But the series is improving. In the 5th edition rulebook, players are asked to “think about how your traits does or does not conform to the broader culture’s expectations of sex, gender, and sexual behaviour.” And as if that wasn’t clear enough, it adds that “you [the player] don’t need to be confined to binary notions.”
Being confined is something that gender non-conforming players feel prefer they have to be in these sort of gaming spaces, so for a rule
Tieflings are gay and gay is valid: dungeons, dragons, and the art of the radically normal
Alexander Stronach
Dungeons & Dragons is gay now. I don’t realize when the tide changed, but if your D&D team is entirely heterosexual then something has gone wrong. Sorry hets. You can still play it, but you’re playing a gay game. Science fiction and fantasy too. We were always there (y’all seen a picture of Samuel Delaney? Poppa Bear could get it) but our conquest of the genre is complete. I’ve consulted the four winds and also Scalzi’s Twitter feed, and I understand our work is done. You may stay in our lands as vassals, or be exiled to the lands of boomer literary fiction about drowning near a bach.
I’m not sure how serious I’m creature, but the LGBTQIA+ community has develop a much more visible participant in tabletop role-playing games in the last decade, and that visibility has enriched our games and our art. It’s the quiet revolution: our little corner of nerddom has come out of the closet. Our niche genre of collaborative storytelling is having its moment. Part novel-writing, part improv theatre, part database management, TTRPGs have always appealed to folks on the fringes of thi
How Dungeons and Dragons Became So Wonderfully Gay
My first encounter with Dungeons and Dragons was not a positive one.
I was visiting a local comics and gaming store with a friend, and while he picked up a several comics he’d had on reserve, I wandered to the back of the store to take a look at some of the graphic novels. Sitting around a gaming table in the back were a handful of boys and men. They seemed to range between the ages of fifteen and forty, and they were all white. That’s not what caught my attention, though. Before I’d gotten close, they were having a good time—rolling dice, shouting excitedly about the monster they were battling in their game. But the moment I came into view, everything stopped.
While I browsed the shelves in that part of the store, all of their eyes were on me as their game came to a total halt. It was as if they’d never seen someone with breasts in this space before and didn’t know how to proceed. After a entire minute of uneasy silence, I hurried back to the front of the store, and the guys’ game resumed.
I was seventeen, and while I’d always wanted to play D&D, this didn’t give me the best impression of the player base. I got the
Dungeons & Dragons Can Bring Gay Fantasy To Life
A queer exploration through role-playing games…
By Rowan O’Brien
Although the pandemic kept us physically apart from our loved ones, I was lucky enough to reconnect with old friends during my newfound free time. Inspired by Dimension 20, an actual-play Dungeons & Dragons show that I binged to fill the endless devoid days in early 2020, I sent an inciting message to my Dungeon Master (DM) from elementary school: “We should undertake a Zoom D&D sesh!”
If you spent any time on TikTok over the past three years, you may have noticed that I am not the only one who reinvested in my nerdy interests. In fact, there was a Dungeons & Dragons renaissance as people searched for a weekly activity that didn’t require them to leave their homes. According to a CNBC article, Dungeons & Dragons sales jumped 33 per cent in 2020 and the revenue for the creators, Wizards of the Coast, rose 24 per cent.
As the pandemic forced us to consume more time alone with our thoughts than we normally would (or would like to), another phenomenon started popping up on social media. A lot of people were realizing they were queer and trans