by Maccabee on Tue May 29, 2001 8:56 am
<B>GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER FOUNDS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!!</B><P>I played a gay physical adept once. The original character concept wasn't very good, but I'd just read one of Effinger's "Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson" stories, and I mentioned her tagline ("Don't call me Muffy!") so naturally everyone started calling my physical adept that.<P>I came up with a magical GLBT society called "Triangle" for him to initiate into, and gave it some political goals. It was a legally recognized policlub in UCAS and California, and considered a terrorist organization in CAS and Aztlan so we had some more adventure hooks.<P>When I started running a new game I used Muffy as an NPC. I had a lot of new players doing magical characters, and of course they wanted to initiate and asked Muffy if he could get them in. I told them that Triangle was for gays only, so naturally every mage, shaman and physical adept in the party came out of the closet then and there. I made it clear that they couldn't just say they were gay for munchkining purposes, and they did a pretty good job all-told. And of course watching a bunch of teenaged girls pretending to be lesbians has nothing to do with my approval of their role-playing ability. I'd actually expected most of them to back off and play their characters straight.<P>This has been another edition of "Gamer Stories That Will Never Appear in <I>Knights of the Dinner Table</I>, brought to you by Maccabee, the good people at FASA, and their corporate drone masters in the Microsoft Corporation.<P>------------------
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