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    D&D 5E 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    I didn't say your summary was an inadequate full interpretation, that would be redundant. I said you summary was an inadequate summary, because it failed to capture the real meaning behind the section of text it was summarising. There could be 4 million posts in the thread, all of which repeated...
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    D&D 5E 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    Well I assume you're from the Netherlands as that's the only country in the world that's had legal same-sex marriage for 15 years. All I can say is, if that's the case, I'd avoid extrapolating experiences from your own culture onto the rest of the developed west since the Netherlands is...
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    D&D 5E 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    I'm seeing this kind of thing over and over again. There is a difference between including gender role in society or sexual orientation as themes in your campaign setting and treating those issues as non-issues. This is something we're seeing increasingly in other media and I think it would be a...
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    D&D 5E 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    I think you've failed to adequately summarised the wording or intention of the section on sex in the PH. The actual paragraph is more nuanced and considered; "You can play a male or female character without gaining any special benefits or hindrances. Think about how your character does or does...
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