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In roleplaying games character interactions often require “”reaction rolls.”" In GURPS, the system we use, the higher your roll of 3 six sided dice, the better your reaction from the non-playing-character ( NPC). If you have an advantage such as “”attractive”" or anything similar the reaction is modified by what gender the NPC is attracted to. I’m sure the majority of roleplayers assume that most people are straight, and ignore the possibility of gay NPCs… we’ve come up with a novel solution to this: The Gay Dice.

We have a D10 that has the 0 colored in, and we use it as a quasi Kinsey Scale for the character, where 0 means exclusively homosexual, and anything higher is heterosexual. (we’ve generally agreed that 1 means bisexual, or “open to experimentation” at the least.) While this is not exactly a “Kinsey Dice” it does guarantee a 1 in 10 chance of interacting with a gay NPC, which is what some studies have estimated the gay population to be (other studies have estimated 1 in 20 or higher, the lower the probability the study predicts the more likely it is that a conservative had their fingers in the funding.)

As a final note, I know we should be calling it the “Gay Die.” I’ve always hated the singular form of Dice, and I don’t think many people use it anyway (even though they should.) Gay Die also sounds like some kind of hate group, so the “Gay Dice” it is!