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James stated earlier in the thread that it wasn’t a case of parallel design, but a purposeful decision. As I wrote, sometimes more isn’t better. Having 100% of the couples and 2/3 of the allied NPCS be LGBT strikes me strangely. I’d have the same criticism if 100% of the couples and 2/3 of the allied NPCs were ½ dragons. I recall James Jacobs lamenting that in Red Hand of Doom he was required to have a plethora of half dragons, something he felt had been overdone. He was right, in the early days of 3rd Ed they were the cool new kids and showed up far too enough. Dungeon magazine also had them on a list of items they didn’t want to see in submissions, along with necromancer and his undead army. I’m not suggesting that the two couples make LGBT inclusion overdone, but that for this AP it seemed clunky, artificial and that the pair ended up detracting from each other. I’ve read the passionate posts on the topic in a variety of threads and found some quite poignant, but to me it’s akin to ½ dragons.