D&D Salutes the LGBT Community

****FYI! This post contains spoilers for the D&D adventures Storm King's Thunder and Curse of Strahd****

In the D&D adventure Storm King's Thunder, three giant rocks have crushed the Osstra family's farm in the abondoned village of Nightstone, causing them to flee the town. Of course, the Osstra family and all their neighbors get captured by a band of goblins, who scurry them to a cave. Players have the option to rescue the villagers and if they choose to do so, they'll run into farm Thelbin Osstra, his husband, and their adopted nephew.

The family is actually a shout-out to one of the story's writers, Jeremy Crawford. Crawfor lived with his husband and nephew when the adventure was being written back in 2016. He approached D&D publisher, Wizards of the Coast, with the notion of expanding the game's outreach to more players and making D&D more...gay!

The original game was made by two men, both conservative christians at one point (*shudders*), and now 40 years later, the game is coming out of the stone age. D&D is embracing the variety of players who enjoy their adventures.

Curse of Strahd actually involves even more gay quirks. Players can persuade a spellcaster to join their quest in defeating a vampire. In the course of said quest, they will meet Vladimir Horngaard, a commander who was once the spellcaster's lover. If the spellcaster joins up a painful moment of recognition may follow.

Since Strahd has come out, every adventure since has included at least one queer character with queer plotlines woven into the story.

Stay wonderful, Wizards. The inclusion of more gayness into the living and breathing monster that is D&D is some fantastic news to all of us in the LGBT community! And you, the players! Keep being awesome and DMing those custom lesbian love scenes like champions! We love you!