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There's honestly very little I find worse in the world that people trying to take an argument designed to protect the dignity and the marginalised and trying to turn it around saying "NO U R THE REAL RACISTS LOL". I'm really not sure you understand all that much about "race and ethnicity" but...

Hey cool thanks I'm trans would be nice if we could keep your "opinions" out of the thread. (OOI I'm not big on the concept of "gender identity" as defined, because it can lead to people circumventing with biological essentialism, but that's another story, this poster is basically saying trans...

I prefer to do stuff with stuff I guess. Though I do worry as many in the thread as to what stuff some people consider.

Well, yeah, a bit like how you can put "Half-Elf" in the race field but play it like a Human or Elf aside from minor mechanical differences.

I don't see anyone calling for censorship here. This always comes up with anti-social justice arguments. Cultural practices can be outlawed or made "undesirable" by way of employment discrimination etc., Muslim women can be afraid to wear Abayas & Hijab, trans people can be afraid to walk down...

Sorcerers generally have some sort of blood-line, either born into it or "marked" by it. Dragon Sorcerers are one example of this. My character was pretty much born from magical creatures anyway, but being Jinn touched changed the nature of her magic to make it something along those lines...

I think 3) isn't mostly all that bad though, since there's no one way to be "female". But there is definitely a better way to write/play female characters.

It's really disheartening that even after a locked thread people still want to talk about Cultural Appropriation, and by talk I mean absolutely insist it isn't real and anyone who believes in it is an idiot. I just want to be clear about this - the reason why people, especially largely white...

Don't want to get into arguments about appropriation(again), but suffice to say I've heard most arguments one or way or another and this is an area of interest and some amount of study for me so I have an idea of the effects that Orientalist stereotypes etc. have on different cultures. Also not...

I always worry about this with characters, but at the same time for long term campaigns I find it less stressful to play a character that's similar to myself but highlights different aspects. It's definitely a good strategy to avoid pitfalls though assuming you can do it right, and gender is an...

What I'm looking for is to use Hengeyokai specifically as it does suit my purposes for the character as a Sneaky Sorcerer very well, I just need to figure out how to refluff some stuff to better suit, and figure out ways I can make up for the lack of feats/options.

It looks pretty good but I am worried about Gal Gadot in the role.

tbh I forget whether or not I've told the GM or players whether or not I want my next character to be trans. It's sort of a reverse of this problem, where it's an experience that's so intensely mine that others might not know how to react to it. There's a long history of "Gender bending" in D&D...

PC #2 sounds like it could have been interesting in the right context tbh but if she didn't have any useful super powers a bit arty pretentious. Some people just get an idea for a character that has this sort of dramatic thing about them but are otherwise sort of useless.

Yeah thanks. I'm thankful for my current GM(who I know reads these threads and I hope i haven't offended somehow) who's largely respectful of sensitivities even if we have a slightly different idea of where to draw the line sometimes, so don't run the risk of running into that sort of stuff...

Who else i still listening to motown lmao. I'm on Kool & The Gang's Ladies night now.

It's weird, because most of us would watch a movie or read a comic featuring a character like that, written by a dude. Stuff like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, X-23 from X-men stuff, Mad Max: Fury Road. When it comes to roleplaying it's a bit more suspect because it's an isolated character...

tbh sexual violence is so common and treated with such a blasé attitude that I'd be very wary of including it as an element in a game. I remember one time after a joke went sideways my Cyberpunk 2020 character(that I played around 2004 or so) ended up being a "pimp" and had 5 girls he tried to...

Yeah, this is how it's done in our game pretty much. Nobody needs a graphic description of what my character's lewd Dad gets up to with the Tiefling girls he has hanging off him lol. Though I think elaborating on "done" with some little tidbit can help improve immersion a bit without making...

I think about this a lot, actually. At least if you're something like a sorcerer, that can be purely "unreal". But generally you want to play something at least a little unlike yourself, that's somewhat the point. It's escapism. But at the same time even in fantasy there are going to "real"...