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I agree. Combating and dealing with prejudices ingame can be fun if everyone is on board. Same as dealing with ideologies and means of government- we once had a PC with a noble background who didn't think that democracy could work at all and that it would doom the society he lived in. Despite...

These reasons are very, very, very different and I don't wish to write an essay about the hows and whys and also would love to not Godwin the thread about freakin' cross-gender play any further. FYI, I'm German and we tend to have very strong opinions on Nazis and how to represent them in the...

You do realize that there are lots and lots of reasons for that? Also, there are enough games, movies etc. out there that deal with all the major axis powers (including the Japanese), even if they tend to exclude brief members (Romania, Iraq...) On a second thought, we did get Nazi aliens in...

Err... I'm really not sure whether we'd want to go down that pit. Really.

A Ghost in the Shell The next day, Delft awaits us in his office and states that the three of us were called to Slate immediately to meet up with the king and his Principal Minister and officially talk about the upcoming event and our role in all of this. As the chief inspector already got...

Regarding the games (KC and Witcher): Based on the demographics of medieval europe, they had reasons to both add or omit non-white characters. Adding one or two PoC doesn't change your statistics that much, even if 99.9% of all medieval polish/boehmian people were white. Especially if you could...

but... why would a gender-switching species be "politics"? Retconning the story of Sargeras and the corruption of the Eredar wasn't "political" either. It was a design/story choice.

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...