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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 9550487" data-attributes="member: 710">One of the interesting things - even before given them multiple genders is that because in D&D, myth and fairy tales are kinda true, all these prejudices that existed in the real world that created those tales now are actually true things. However, the "mundane" and (usually by comparison harmless) version also exists. SO even if all mysognist and misantrophic and misandric tropes and prejudices are given reality - but also their opposite. The world is really a scarier place, because that woman or man over there could really be a disguised monster. But, if you arrange a mob and try to kill it - you might be just killing a harmless grandmother, which will leave you a bit emberassed. But if it's really a monster, you might die horribly. In the real world, the latter never happened, there are no witches, hags, succubus, nymphs, dryads, shape-shifted dragons, ogres, or demon-possessed people that could tear you apart or suck out your life force. There were never life-threatening consequences for the prejudiced. Worst thing to happen would be a bad conscience, basically. This might alter the behaviour of the people in fantasy notably. Sure, their fears are more justified, but that mob assembly thing can turn out really bad for t hem. So, yeah, maybe that old woman is a hag. But let's not assemble a mob just yet. Hire some adventurers. They actually know how to fight such monsters, and they probably can even tell if she's a real monster. And the adventurers reputation will hurt if they keep killing old women, so they have to figure out how to identify the real monsters.</blockquote>

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