I can finally prove that
Desiderius was wrong this time one of the writers confirms Linzi is indeed a lesbian
Linzi is a kid dude. Girls look up to hot chix. Not sexual.
Don't pedo.
Stratagemin2
Tl;dr, I learned that Linzi is a lesbian (and no one else did).
OwlcatThainen
- Well, a couple LGBT streamers did get the clue!
Oh, there's more within that conversation:
OwlcatThainen said:
Linzi was charmed by Valery the moment they met, but later their relations soured.
Speaking of inclusion, there's one thing I'm still sad didn't make it to the final game. Remember the beardless dwarf merchant in the capital of the Stolen Lands? I planned to reveal later that she's a closeted trans woman, and give the player a side quest to get her a potion. Unfortunately, this bit of content got cut, so her story was left unfinished, a setup with no resolution. I'm glad that for Wrath we have better representation baked into the original module, but I still hope to one day, maybe in a later game, that dwarf could make a comeback, this time as a woman :
Is any RPG safe from this shit anymore?
If it's made from outside the Western culture zone, sure. But then it probably won't be in English. So your only real hope is some ports of Japanese stuff, and even then, they aren't really interested in sending much to the West, so yeah.
It's just in the culture. You had your heroes from 20, 30 years ago make a new game now, not only would it be popamole, it would be full of this stuff, because everyone is told this is what people want and what sells. This is what is "cool" to the kids, is the line, that's why you see so much of it in marketing. Whether that is true or not doesn't matter, only that they believe it.