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?”
  • NonStandardDeviation ( NonStandardDeviation@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 years ago

    I’m running a sci-fi campaign, and my NPCs are…

    • Sequential hermaphrodite alien squids
    • Ancient aliens made of nanites that evolved millions of years ago from cyborgs/mind uploads (have transcended biology and mortality)
    • Mysterious hacker known only by their screen name (pronouns: admin/GOD)
    • Being of spontaneously coalesced pure energy (too pure and innocent to know that gendered pronouns exist)

    I wasn’t doing it intentionally, but can you think of any other ways for characters to dodge the gender question? Now that I think of it, I think I have room for a trans (in the usual human sense) NPC.