But we're not talking about cigar-chomping bears in a wheelchair. No-one was proposing that. We're talking specifically about one particular kind of representation, done by and for people who care about that for whatever reason. Slippery slopes are a logical fallacy.
Besides, that's a suspiciously specific type of character. I'm beginning to have questions.
We're talking specifically about one particular kind of representation, done by and for people who care about that for whatever reason.
Then you have been reading this discussion vastly different than me. The setup of this discussion was not players that seek lgbt content and subsequently find it. So I approached it as the situation where lgbt content is added on top, as the original post described it. The title of the thread can be understood differently, like a poll, like if people would care for 3d elements in a 2d game. And while I agree in principle with "Unless they greatly affect the direction of the plot", I go further and say, it distracts a bit and often comes across as bad writing or trying to appear inclusive. I would like to see such qualites either worked in satisfactorial or not at all.
If your reason for having an lgbt hero is to appeal to people looking for lgbt, that changes everything! Of course it is not a disctration! It is the whole point why the hero has that quality.
I picked Mario because he is well known and because his games would work no matter his sexuality. So adding lgbt elements to a Mario game would be such a situation. For this topic with rpg, Link might have been better, but many people do not even know his name.
