anon, if you want to sell game to everybody then you gotta meet the taste of everybody, which is impossible, so you gotta meet the taste of main mass of people.... suprise: those are heterosexual men mostly, who also mostly enjoy charakters which are canon in that setting. either you start to imagine whole new worlds, where the snowflake-heroes somehow fit or your sales will suck. id say a good starting point for a rpg would be 150 years down the line, and with cloning being accepted alternative to natural procreation, with very very minor squabbles about 'truebirthed' vs 'artbirthed'... balance it fairly, and have the difference be between be on the level of a running gag. stop messing with history, or established lore, people hat that. good luck
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