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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9550834" data-attributes="member: 42856">DM: You meet a wolly elephant, ready to charge, as you wander through the terrible blizzard of the Icewind Dale....Players: WAIT, is it a she-elephant or a he-elephant?DM: What? It's about to chargePlayers: That's important. Can we roll Perception? Or is it Animal Handling?DM: It runs toward you...Players: "I cast Unresistible Guts Explosion on him." rolls 18 Now that he's dead, let's examine it more thoroughly. Was it a he or a she elephant?DM: and you really have no clue on why it's difficult to find DMs these days?But TBH, it actually mattered a few times.1. I had an alien race (it was in the long-forgotten days of 2023, we had races back then) whose elite where sexless cloned in vats, while the mindless slaves reproduced sexually. When interacting with them, asking if they were man or woman resulted in a fun roleplay with the alien being insulted. And the players understanding why later.2. In a murder mystery I had, I made a prop with a letter from the mastermind who sent an assassin, and it revealed the culprit's sex thanks to grammar (does not work in English as well as it is either too obvious (her majesty/his majesty) or doesn't appear at all). I had carefully written the text so it was long enough to not make it obvious and carefully wrote to avoid situations where the grammatical gender of the writer would be revealed except once. But those are odd cases.</blockquote>

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