do you guys ever think about how Brennan doesn't include bigotry into his worlds and stories UNLESS they are requested or canonized by his players? like with pete in unsleeping city, we deal with his transphobic dad/peers but this is only because ally wrote it into pete's story. sam nightingale is trans, and we see her deal with transphobia from her label, her agent, her mother, etc., but that was sepphie's choice to include that part of the story. kristen is a lesbian and the church of helio being homophobic is part of her story that ally wanted to include.
in comparison, think about characters like riva or fig or timothy or so many others, where their identities are never relevant in any sort of homophobic or transphobic way. they just are. these are queer characters that don't face the same kind of institutionalized bigotry because unless they are important to a character's backstory and made canon by that character's player, brennan does not include it.
the reason i felt like pointing this out is bc I feel like there is a huge population of the d&d/ttrpg community that feel like the only way to make a story or setting "real" is to incorporate real-life or real-world issues into their fictional worlds. which, in some cases, does work. but they are not the only way to do it, and to do it without permission from the pc's that will suffer from it is just cruel and unnecessary. idk. just makes me smile to think about how much of a nonissue representation and queer stories are in d20
he doesn't fuck around with his representation. and I love to see it. there are a bunch of other examples that I'm just not thinking about right now so shout them out in the tags if you think of them :)