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It just depends on how you want to define woke. There is a bit of homosexual content, a bit of feminine men and masculine women going on, and a couple of similar things that if you are easily offended and right wing may get your hair up. None of it is explicit (unless you CHOOSE to have a homosexual relationship with a companion, then its on you what you see). I am fairly conservative and the game does not offend me. The whole back and forth spillover from real life politics is exhausting, honestly, so if you stay away from those kinds of topics (and stop making them, you are not helping) you will be happier. Just play the game already :)
There is plenty to offend lefties too. If you start out with a bad attitude, and work hard at it, you too can be offended.
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Some people seem to think that it has tiefling refugees in it makes it "woke".
The people politicizing the game are not the developers pushing an agenda, or being forced by any sweet babies to insert an agenda; it's the forum dwellers seeing a political agenda in the game that isn't actually there.
Now, I'm not saying there aren't themes to the game. Like how tyrants take power, or not judging a book by its cover, or people can change and evolve and are not defined by their culture or their origins. I just don't think this is "inserting modern politics" into it. Nor is the mere presence of trans or gay characters or romances.
Or that the game is not a medieval European culture sim, because D & D was never meant to be.
These forums are here to help each other with problems, in the games.
We really could care less what WING you flutter on, or what your moral standards are , BUT, if you have a real issue with settings, quest content, or maybe even a "bug" issue, we try to be here and help if we can.
But seriously it depends on how diehard a culture warrior you are. If you're a normal right wing person and not a 'help there's a pronoun option in character creation it's too woke to play' person, I don't think you'll notice anything.
Who are the only people who like to see willies wobbling around? Because I know no women I've been with who want to see that, and definitely no straight men want to see it either.
As for the rest of the game: all companions gay - I mean, bisexual (oh wait a minute, isn't that gay?).
No, dude, it's 'playersexual'. Whether they are male or female, they will hit on you regardless of your gender selection (whoops, sorry - you don't pick 'gender' in the character creator, you pick 'body type' - my bads...).
Anyways, unless you're utterly insane, playersexual = bisexual = everyone's gay.
There are gay gnomes who have their 'husband and husband' dialogue on unskippable repeat, lest you miss it.
Gay elephants (or something, there's an elephant with a man's voice who is apparently a they/them who has what I'd call a female name).
This is just surface-level. It is the gayest AAA game ever made, 100%. Very proud of it, and wants to wily-pyshics you in the face about how proud they are.
Did I forget the sex-obsession everywhere you go? And who is sex-obssessed? People who aren't getting sex. And who is not getting sex because they are tiny fraction of normal people?
The approach does have advantages, of course, since every PC has access to all options.
Not my preferred design, but I can see the case for it.
You should listen to smarter people.
I'm rather conservative too, and it's really not that bad. Aside from your party and choices you make, the most important romance in the game is a gay relationship. There was another romance pointed out above that kinda rubbed me the wrong way because, yeah they never shut up until you leave the area, but that's pretty much it. There's a couple of "Refugees good or bad no grey area" kinda thing. I did not see the elephant thing yet, so I dunno about that. I've only gotten to the first area of the 3rd act, and I'm sure there's stuff I missed.
Most straight couples, aside from you, that are given a quest-line seem to be very dysfunctional, though. At least the memorable ones. 1. goes to seek magic to bring her husband back to life. Doesn't go well. She waltzes off into the sunset with basically a zombie... But at least she's seeking help to bring him back. Again. 2. Mushroom hunter is apparently an A-hole to his wife who apparently is much happier if he dies. So, it feels like the gay couples are the only ones to really get a happy relationship. Again, these are memorable relationships in questlines.
I feel like games are going to pander hard to the loud LGBTQ people. Concerned Ape (Stardew Valley) got accused of transphobia for not having "non-binary" options in a game around a decade old. They tried to come after him for it. That community is "my way or I'm going to try to destroy you for not doing what I want you to." that goes beyond using your wallet to boycott. Aside from that, those in creative jobs like making games, books and art tend to lean more into the liberal ideology.