Huh? Ill be honest, the sex of either character never crossed my mind. The comic doesnt even draw attention to it. I found it funny because his goal, and overall campaign mission, was to kill the orc but fumbled their way into marrying them instead. Its classic situational humor that comes out of role playing games.

Hmm I'm mixed on this, you could see it as homophobia, but just the hero falling in love with the BBEG in itself could cause the exact same comic, no? In which case making either a woman could have misogynistic implications instead.

Without knowing the author I like to think they're making the "hero seduces BBEG" joke, just more inclusive because it's gay now.

I thought it was cute. He wasn't mad about the gay. He was mad about the lack of murder.

Pretty sure the joke is that he accidentally married an orc, not that he married a dude. This comic is not homophobic, it's actually RACIST lol

Them both being men isn't what makes this funny. The player being forced to seduce someone they don't find attractive is what's funny. This has been a trope forever. There's, like, three different layers of the exact same conflict/joke in Shrek, none of which include same-sex couples (unless you think Shrek and Donkey are more than just roommates).

The real offense here is a DM stripping agency from their player for a laugh. The player is clearly not being a good sport about it, and this type of behavior can feel like bullying and absolutely wreck a playgroup.

Or you know, just defaultism. If the player is hetero, by default his character is hetero. He did not seem offended by the route it took, just embarassed (and it's not said per se if because of gay, because of success at failing or both).

Hell, looking at the full-color-spectrum cast I am hella more prone to believing it's mix of defaultism and simple laughing at friend stumbling xD

Dude, I'm straight, and I didn't even notice it was a gay relationship until you brought it up.

I just read it like; "Goddamn it, I rolled a fighter, not a bard, this time for a reason. What was the point of that side quest where I got this sword if I'm just going to rearrange his guts with a sword I was born with?"

If I want to do horny shit, I'll roll up a horny character.

Tell me how this wouldn't work if the orc was a woman. If you only find it funny because "ew dudes", maybe that's you talking and not the comic... Because I could see this working just as well with either one being the opposite sex.

We'd then just have to deal with people like you calling it gross because a dude forced himself on a woman or something.

Imagine the shtick with a man and a woman : it's not as fun or not even fun?

Actually, it's also funny. If the players genuinely hated the enemy and consecutive crit fails ended in romance, I'd be laughing regardless of romance. Same of the enemy was a machine. It doesn't matter.