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Why would trans people be less common due to technology? Trans is an identity where your gender doesn't match the physical sex you were born with. The ability to change that (via surgery) isn't a defining factor. Lots of trans people go for surgeries if they can, but many can't, and many choose...

Sure. I meant it when I said there's great story potential in oppression (as long as all the players are on board with it). The upcoming Lost Citadel campaign I worked on has slavery--particularly of dwarves--as a cornerstone of the city's culture/government. I just object to people saying...

*nod* I should have been clearer. I was using what you said as a jumping-off point for what I wanted to say, but I was addressing the common topics of "my setting is oppressive because realism" and "in-game oppression of real-world marginalized people" in general, not making a point about your...

Let's not pretend that homophobia is the default reality even for "simulationist" games. Lots of historical cultures were fine with it. Indeed, in many places in the Middle Ages, nobody cared who you took as a lover, as long as you were married to someone in order to produce an heir. And...

Look, man, I don't want to seem like I'm piling on you, but this is simply untrue. WotC research shows that, by far, the majority of campaigns are still homebrew. D&D has always had some built-in flavor--even 1E and BECMI; and 5E certainly doesn't have any more than 3E had. And yet most DMs are...

This is... I don't get it. The longest 5E campaign I ever ran had entirely unique outer planes, no differentiation between demons and devils, pseudo-psionic reptilian orcs, a unique pantheon, multiple distinct cultures... The campaign I'm about to start playing in is a combination...

It may indeed be linguistically treacherous--which is a fascinating concept/turn of phrase in its own right--but in this instance, it happens to be accurate. The general consensus (though you'll certainly find individuals who argue otherwise) is that enbies--that is, nonbinary folks--do indeed...

Good thing they're doing no such thing, then. I mean, given that the real world conflict is a conflict between nations--nations that happen to be linked to, but do not represent the entirety of, two particular religions and two particular ethnic groups--it would be silly to say that any use of...

And we all know that almost the entirety of Greyhawk or the Forgotten Realms, as settings, are Middle Ages Europe. I refuse to accept the notion that entire swathes of mythology and related cultures are forbidden to modern fantasy due to the regions they come from having real-world conflicts...

Okay, you might have a point with the names in XG--I honestly haven't even looked at them--but I was talking about Al-Qadim as a setting.

Oh, are we at the "No, you!" part of the argument already? Okay. No, you!

Speaking as a Jew, I don't see this at all. It's not the real world. It's a 100% fantasy culture modeled after a (very broad, non-historical) view of a real world setting. If they were claiming even remote historical accuracy, I might agree with you. As it is? That's like saying Cormyr in the...

Obviously, I have my own preferences for which settings I'd like to see and which I could do without. I definitely want to encourage more expansion into other settings, so I'll probably buy these no matter what settings they choose to go with. (Except possibly Krynn. No offense to those who...

Even if you choose not to respond, I just want to be clear. I don't think anybody was calling you a bigot or a monster. I know I wasn't. We were saying that we think you're making a mistake and possibly sending a message you didn't mean to send. If I thought you were a bigot or a monster, I...

I didn't miss that at all. I rather doubt that, even in the most combat/tactical-focused, RP-less campaigns, there is zero sign of romantic relationships. You never have married NPCs? Never a king and queen of the realm? Never a family living in a farmhouse whose fields are being destroyed by...

Leaving aside whether I agree with that or not, because that's a whole different conversational tangent, I'm not asking the DM to do anything but allow the player to play what he/she wants to. That can always lead to "fade to black," but I assume that most DMs who don't like to include sexual...

1) That a person who is not part of a marginalized group doesn't see how often that marginalized group is insulted/oppressed does not, in any way, lessen the actual problem. Don't ever fall into the trap of thinking that because you don't see something that doesn't affect you, that means it's...

Oh, sure. Absolutely. But it's a story being made a group of people, with an audience of that same group of people. Any given detail only has to be important to one of them, or even only impact one of them at all, to at least potentially have a place in the game. That was the point I was making.

This, absolutely. We're playing a game, not writing a novel. While it'd be great if the ability played into the story (and a really skilled DM will find a way to make it do so), ultimately what matters is the player portraying the character they want to portray. It doesn't have to have an...

Then don't play with those people. I'm serious. This is a behavioral problem, not a topical one. By "not giving ammo" to these people, you're also taking away play options from people for whom this sort of thing is important. Kick the jerks to the curb, rather than punishing everyone else.