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Other than the first sentence, the text of this post reinforces the appearance that it was your assumption. And again, it shouldn't require "a good number" to have left the game over this issue and someone to present their story of that to you - it should be enough that anyone has presented...

The presumption that someone who looked into the game, found a dealbreaker, and yet is around to give a specific account of what that dealbreaker was is a flawed one, Max. That anyone has identified some bit of language as problematic and has presented sound reasoning explaining why it is...

It's not about differing opinion as to whether we each find it offensive or not though - it's about responding to people's legitimate reasons to be offended with dismissive attitude, and suggestion (implied or otherwise) that instead of fixing the source of the offense things stay as-is because...

Had a few 5e session with 9 players. It takes players being willing to actually help keep things moving and keep including each other, rather than each being passive 'waiting their turn' or being too eager to be doing things. I prefer smaller groups for modern games, right around 4-5 being...

The word twisting you (FrogReaver, to be clear) are accusing people of is itself word twisting. People are just trying to call it like they see it... and that's not a problem, except when you tell someone that sees something as offense "it's not offensive, you're twisting my words into...

And yet when people have defended the "it's okay to kill the creature because it has an evil alignment" it hasn't been in situations of the sort that you describe where violence is used as a reaction to other immediate violence. I've seen it argued that killing a goblin as soon as you see it...

I have always been confused by the argument "it is okay to kill evil aligned creatures because they are evil aligned" because I find myself asking questions like: What alignment would you ascribe to a person that has zero remorse or hesitation to kill people for having other beliefs? When not...

The approach to D&D in which kill-it-because-it's-there intersects with characters depicted as 'the good guys' is absolutely not a necessity. In fact, I don't think the murderhoboism of it all was actually intended despite the game's focus on combat and acquisition of wealth from...

Most of the settings I play in don't have an ethnicity that matches mine, or most people's really... so the question that serves as the title of the thread is a bit inaccurate. Do your human pcs tend to look like you? I was going to say that I had one character that the look of was meant to be...

I think the accent used in role-playing being a problem or not comes down to context and presentation. Most folks won't find even a poor match of their own accent offensive if someone is using it in good faith rather than trying to say "this is how your people sound, and also it's stupid" or...

Some folks in this thread seem to be missing important context. To use an example to illustrate: The "go be pirates" AP isn't presenting the characters as being "good people" according to the in-setting narrative - it's presenting them as pirates. But this AP intended to present the characters...

I don't get how anyone could see a problem with Paizo saying what effectively boils down to "current circumstances in the world make releasing this particular adventure at this time potentially look insensitive, and we didn't mean for that." They have identified potential sore points among...

Not what was being argued. And also, not without one very important caveat: that hate gets portrayed as inappropriate. Go ahead and write that hate - just don't write it as being something the good guys think is acceptable. And don't write it in such a way that it's unclear to the reader if the...

The difference is in the treatment. Presenting racism as a bad thing and using it as a way to point out how unlikable a character is (because they are a racist, and racism is bad) is entirely different from presenting racism as an unquestioned, unchallenged status quo. And when you mention...

I'm sure more than a few reactions to people finding d&d offensive can be summed up by "I just couldn't get into it." It's not like everyone has experienced events like a real-world racist playing out their sick fantasies by playing a character that on paper is "the good guy" but in play spends...

And on top of learning to phrase an opinion as being an opinion rather than a fact, maybe consider that it's not required to associate [insert game element such as orcs] to a real-world people in order for the language you use to describe that game element to remind the real-world people reading...

I can't even process your post, Galandris. I mean, I get the part where you think I've somehow got it backwards but the explanation as to how is like word salad to me.

To illustrate the problem with a particular argument being used in this thread, let's apply it to the thread itself: Xenonnonex, go ahead and keep swearing. It's not really that many people that have a problem with it, and since they are emotional about it because of their previous experiences...

You may note that the game books are absent examples of events which resemble traumatic violence real people have experienced. There's no passage of text floating around in the general how-to-play-the-game sections of text which mirrors things like what an attacker said to the traumatized reader...

"So that attrition can still happen" seems like the obvious answer.