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I'm not so sure. Unless he portrayed that black woman in a really off-putting way, I don't think he'd get much backlash. And I agree that RPing is a great way to improve empathy and understanding of other groups. You cannot really accuse that white guy of whitewashing, for example, because he...

no offense taken. I appreciate your longer clarification :)

haha, my favourite swashbuckler, good job :D oh and I wouldn't say the 17th century is "too recent history". La Maupin lived only ~200 years after Jeanne d'Arc, and in the very same era as the Three Musketeers.

I know that. But I wanted to avoid a big wall of text and tried to focus on the fact that transsexual isn't the right word and using transgender for all of them isn't right as well. Good point about the possibility of being trans even if they are blessed by Corellon, especially if their...

Okay... let me throw in one little thought: The ability to switch between male and female elf form doesn't make these elves transexual or transgender. I'd rather call it an extreme form of genderfluidity. Being trans means a person whose gender doesn't match with the sex they were born with...

Don't know why this is so controversial. I once designed a humanoid species for a space-faring RIFTS campaign that could and would switch their sex. They were born androgynous and did their first shift during puberty. The switch would take something between 1-3 weeks (this was sci-fi, so I...

Well, teleporting does work, but it turns you to a crisp. Scholars (and those with sufficient planar or arcane knowledge) might guess that something must have happened in the astral plane as summoned creatures are affected as well. There might be theories like this among the mages in Lyceum...

Ha, so that's where Kiernan's comment in adventure 12 comes from.

Alas, poor Coaltongue Once Qillathe and Yvonnel leave the trio and Rhuarc, Tinuviel asks to see Coaltongue's body. Rhuarc fetches it from the house where the two Droalesti had been hiding and shows their grim work with a sense of hesitant pride. With Rhuarc's permission, the three take some...

Yikes, Conan as turn-on? No, I've never seen anyone who played their barbarian like a sexy walking stick. Usually, these characters are played as power/competence fantasies by male players. What I did see were women portraying gay male characters as their wish fulfilment and/or - see Lanefan s...

That's fine. There are people with different opinions in this thread, but your idea sounds like a standard adventuring woman who doesn't have much interest in carousing or romance. If you don't feel comfortable playing romance with a cross-gendered character, no problem. Especially if you're...

Good question! To be honest, I've never seen someone playing a male character who was playing a sexy doll that was clearly meant as imaginary turn-on first and foremost. Or who was solely portraying toxic stereotypes. I guess I'd have a harder time spotting these stereotypes as well. Now I...

Err, no. I don't have any problem with players who are not good at cross-gender play but who really try to and who love playing as someone else. I'd gladly help them to avoid the most basic mistakes. What I do mean is players who *only* play the opposite gender to have an imaginary, sexy doll...

I agree, but I think there could be many burnt kids in this room. Like, players who have seen very bad examples of cross-gender character play and who don't want any of this in their game. Thing is that cross-gender play isn't the reason for such obnoxious play, but rather too little...

Being a GM basically requires you to portray people, monsters and anything inbetween of all varying alignments, backgrounds and cultures. So I'm totally comfortable with playing male characters. I also played some as PCs, but never for too long (the campaigns with them simply ended...

yeah, having no real PF version is quite unfortunate, especially since I DM the campaign for PF as well. But the 3.5 version can be converted without too much of a hassle as long as your players don't do ridiculous optimization. Most of the used monsters are in the PFSRD and the monster DB...

Enter Fordren Shortly after, we both receive an invitation to Vantrys' engagement party. So we both dress up in our finest evening gown and suit and take a carriage to the estate. Once we arrive there, we are both pretty surprised to see a fancy carriage parking there bearing the Fordren...

Wah, now you've stirred my interest even more! I hope there is. There has been a kickstarter for the Good Society RPG which is trying to capture the spirit of Jane Austen's regency era novels. It isn't out yet, but I backed it and am totally intrigued about the system. One would only need to...

Looming shadows When we return to the RHC, we take the rest of the day to read through all files that could be relevant to the recent Kell guild activities. As the sun sets, Carlyle says that he'll try to contact Cippiano or some other Familia officer to collect more information about the...

That sounds quite interesting indeed! Now I guess (but that's just my gut feeling) that you could make this add simply a flat cost to the weapon, like with some armor enchants in Pathfinder. Mainly because while the effect can be powerful, it doesn't add much to the weapon's raw combat power...