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These can not only be ways to understand more LGBTQ+ experiences but can help inspire ideas for your character. Consider: would you ever play a character whose primary characteristics are being cisgenger, straight, and allosexual? A lot of campaigns tend to be overly white, but Fast Times at D&D High sticks out because Sephie is a trans Black woman.

What ways do they feel like you? And while queer representation can often feel like pandering, there are queer Dungeons & Dragons podcasts and shows that make it a point to represent queer people and queer storylines in a meaningful way.

Queer Dungeons & Dragons podcasts and characters are becoming easier to find, especially as more queer people get into the game.

We’ve put together a list of some of our favorite Dungeons & Dragons podcasts with queer characters.

These questions and more will give you an idea of how to play your character.

If you're playing a character whose identity you don't share (for example, if you’re a gay player playing a pansexual character or an allosexual player playing an asexual character), it’s time for a little bit of research.

“Although the two men are older than my husband and I are,” he added, laughing.

Seated outside a D&D app demonstration and a busy Starbucks at this annual gathering of D&D heads, tabletop fanatics, and grown adults wearing capes, Crawford told me that publisher Wizards of the Coast is making D&D more gay, and why that’s a great thing.

Take the Triboar native and retired adventurer Urgala Meltimer, whose wizard wife never returned from the Underdark, whom Crawford says may appear again at a later date so players can solve the mystery of her disappearance.

If you think about D&D’s core values for even a moment, Crawford explained, it’s clear that one of its messages is that the best group is the most diverse group.

Myself and the other Dungeon Masters here at Young Dragonslayers will guide you through making a character and playing a game in a fantastical magical world - and, of course, we practice basics like proper pronoun use and including diverse characters in the worlds we create. Take Corellon Larethian, the D&D god who created the elves. The world of D&D has its own versions of all of these things - and they'll be different in each campaign you play!

What used to be something that geeks did in their basements is now everywhere, with many Dungeons & Dragons podcasts and shows with long and short campaigns and masterful storytelling that only a medium like D&D could allow for. In the current edition of D&D, characters who are the blessed of Corellon may magically change their bodies to affirm their gender identity, though the Player’s Handbook notes that “you don't need to be confined to binary notions of sex and gender.”

There are other examples as well; Doric, from The Druid's Call and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, is asexual and aromatic; Urgala Meltimer, from Stormking’s Thunder, is a lesbian; Chay Bannister, from No Foolish Matter, is gay; Fel’rekt Lafeen, from Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, is transgender; Molliver, from The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, is nonbinary, and Strand Von Zarovich, from Curse of Strahd, is bisexual.

How do they feel about themself?

You can also watch The Unsleeping City on YouTube.

Do you watch or listen to any queer Dungeons & Dragons podcasts?