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Sure, it's possible, but if you understand sophisticated comedy, and are mindful, then you should be able to play a stupid character that doesn't perpetuate harmful stereotypes. For example, I once played a PC that was like the black knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He was definitely...

You can play a stupid character, as a self-deprecating character, where you make fun of yourself. You're not making fun of other people at all.

Tripping and hitting your head actually hurts you. Sitting in a basement, privately playing an RPG does not. While there are stories that have affected people's opinions, a story one plays in one's basement is not going to have any real affect on all of history and fiction. It's not going to...

Characters are fictional, and fictional things cannot really hurt you. If an RPG character is portrayed as "stupid", usually as a simple caricature, they are just make believe. As long as the players are able to separate reality from make believe, then nobody will take the "stupid" character's...

Still not a bad source of material for such a campaign -- and yes, a much more complex alternative to the city with the megadungeon underneath. Incidentally, Chaosium has the originals, and the 1999 single book editions available on drivethrurpg.com.

Another Implementation of this that could serve as a campaign model is Chaosium's classic Runequest campaign set: Pavis+Big Rubble. Pavis is a small Jerusalem-like city on frontier edge of the Lunar Empire. It serves as a home base for the PCs, as well as a source of city adventures. It's full...

Sorry for sounding inflammatory. I totally understand being critical of the material, but I just don't think it's a good idea to censor it. While thoughtless and insensitive, the White Wolf books do caricature the dictator as a weak vampire thrall, and the government's anti-LGBT attacks as...

Yes! How is censoring White Wolf going to help stop the anti-LGBT violence in Chechnya? Why aren't the activists saying something like "while we don't agree with White Wolf using recent real-world violence in their gaming products, it does shine a light on human rights violations happening...

I'm not sure about any of this, because I haven't had a chance to actually read the Camarilla book, and see for myself what they said. On the surface, it seems like an ill-advised and insensitive decision to use recent real world events and real world figures as part of the game's fiction...

I play a lot of the new "indie" rpgs that touch on exactly this analysis of rpg systems. For example, Ron Edwards (designer of Sorcerer) is one of many indie designers that noted that game rules tend to focus on following a specific "creative agenda" that guide the gameplay experience down...