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Gender Rolls

Ever wish you didn't have to manually edit characters to be nonbinary? Do you ever wonder why all the NPCs, heroes, and children in this world are binary and (nearly always) straight? Have I got the mod for you!

Have you heard of the phenomenon called "The Gay Button?" It's a term for when games have queer options (which IS wonderful on its own! Thank you, developers!), but the player has to actively make choices or adjustments to get said queer content to actually appear.

So what does this mod do? Pushes the heck outta that button so you don't have to!

- You can now roll nonbinary & GNC heroes, both in the main menu and when recruiting at towns
- The game can generate genderqueer NPCs, whether in an event, a tiding, as a background character, a speaking role, or even a townsperson who fights alongside you in an incursion!
- Your heroes can now have nonbinary children!!! (I've been wanting this forever)
- You'll see NPCs with same-gender, opposite-gender, and nonbinary spouses
- Both male and female names & voices will generate for genderqueer characters
- Update: All base head shapes & many base faces will now generate for all genders. This was to fix the issue of nonbinary characters only rolling female heads/faces, but it had the unintended bonus of greater diversity of heads/faces for everyone! Female characters without lipstick? Male characters with a gentle jaw? SCORE
- Everyone is bi (I explain why this was necessary below) but you can still change that in the character sheet UPDATE: With the new patch I was able to make all orientations generate for all gender options, which is what I wanted this mod to do! :D
- Gay, straight, and bi ratios are evened out. Subject to change depending on y'all's feedback, but I'm not trying to mirror real-world ratios, so while I may adjust these, they'll stay relatively balanced.

Alright, now don't get me wrong -- I love that Wildermyth has a nonbinary option, and I LOVE that you can customize body type, voice, orientation and appearance to your liking! It's still very rare in video games and as a nonbinary person myself, I cannot express how much it means to me that the devs went out of their way to include us. It is much, much appreciated.

That said, I was a little disheartened to find there are no nonbinary characters in the game unless you force it, so I went into the files to see what was up. Here's what I found.

In vanilla, there are 8 sections for generating a character, each weighted with a number:

1) Straight Male: 95
2) Gay Male: 3
3) Straight Female: 95
4) Gay Female: 3
5) Bi Male: 4
6) Bi Female: 4
7) Bi Nonbinary in Female Body: 0
8) Bi Nonbinary in Male Body: 0

My goal was to allow any body type and any orientation to roll for any gender -- I mean, c'mon, nonbinary folks aren't all bisexual by default! (edit: *Bi default). So I fiddled with the file in a hundred ways trying to make it happen, wondering why including NBs made it so buggy, and why only when I re-ordered it to put NBs at the top did any actually roll. Seriously, I cannot overstate how much time I spent puzzling over this.

TURNS OUT, only the first 6 categories are used when rolling, automatically excluding the bottom 2.* And since changing the order bugged it out, I had to limit the number of categories to 6: 2 per gender. So I based the categories on body type and gender, then set them all to "Attracted to Anyone."

AND IT FINALLY WORKED! No more bugs or lag, baby! :D

[Note: Just like in the vanilla game, you can still customize to change the orientation, body, voice, gender/pronouns, and appearance whenever you'd like!]

*UPDATE: this has been fixed in the latest patch, meaning we can roll a LOT more categories now, so it's no longer an issue!

With that explanation out of the way, here's this mod's base:

UPDATED FOR PATCH

1) Straight Male, Masc Body: 60
2) Straight Male, Fem Body: 3
3) Gay Male, Masc Body: 60
4) Gay Male, Fem Body: 3
5) Bi Male, Masc Body: 60
6) Bi Male, Fem Body: 3
7) Straight Female, Femme Body: 60
8) Straight Female, Masc Body: 3
9) Gay Female, Femme Body: 60
10) Gay Female, Masc Body: 3
11) Bi Female, Femme Body: 60
12) Bi Female, Masc Body: 3
13) Nonbinary, Attracted to Anyone, Fem Body: 15
14) Nonbinary, Attracted to Anyone, Masc Body: 15
15) Nonbinary, Attracted to Women, Fem Body: 15
16) Nonbinary, Attracted to Women, Masc Body: 15
17) Nonbinary, Attracted to Men, Fem Body: 15
18) Nonbinary, Attracted to Men, Masc Body: 15

I know, right? EIGHTEEN categories? HECK yeah!
The reason the numbers for binary trans bodies are much lower now is because I was able to make many of the faces and all of the heads generate for all genders, so even characters with matching body/gender stats can have non-traditional features, just like in real life. There's no one way for a trans, cis, or nonbinary person to look, and I LOVE being able to see gender non-conforming features in-game. So now it won't just be "body doesn't match gender," but a more realistic variety of face/head/body shapes for everyone!

I'm very open to changing this around, so let me know if you have suggestions :D

Gender Rolls is compatible with just about every other mod out there (except Reorienter, for obvious reasons. Sadly, that mod doesn't allow for nonbinary characters). Other than that, I have nearly 100 mods in Wildermyth, and Gender Rolls has worked with all of them!

UPDATE: now that Gender Rolls generates faces, if using 10,000 Faces of Wildermyth, use my compatibility patch for 10k Faces x Gender Rolls! [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2922089818] (use the patch mod with 10k faces, but if doing a campaign without 10k faces, use this og mod you're on the page of right now)

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Let me know what you think! (I'm honestly just thrilled people are using this — it warms my queer little heart.) I've really enjoyed this mod so far, and I hope it can make some of y'all as happy as it makes me ^-^

I hope you're having a good day, and if not, I hope tomorrow treats you better. <3