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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Myrdin Potter" data-source="post: 8032560" data-attributes="member: 6843593">There is no danger of you acting out a possibly offensive caricature role if you are playing the character and you know what to modify. If the whole group is ignorant, then no one in that group would be offended. The only case where it might matter is in a group where someone is offended and you don't have to play OA for that to happen. If you are that worried as a DM and don't know your players, use an X-card or similar.From one of your posts, your home city is Montreal. Mine too (although I live in California now). I run 2 games. One of them has a French Canadian who is a staunch separatist. Somehow me as the DM, who voted No, manages to play week after week with zero issues coming up even though there are plenty of tropes around that are easy entries for such politics to enter the game.I am not sure how reasonable adults can have the issues that cause offense when actually playing. Not that an AD&D 1e rulebook is that relevant today.The other night I DM I have 2 black guys in my group. I guessed on one because of the name (we play via voice and VTT) and found out later that 2 of 6 were black. I am careful about stereotypes in general, even though my orcs are evil in my setting, and when that issue flared up, I asked them if I should change anything. They said no, they preferred the standard rules. I knew to ask. I run AL (before covid) at my local store on Sundays. Heavily Asian player base there and lots of minors. Lots of the players are younger girls (or present as girls, I use whatever pronouns I am asked to use). People play whatever and theme whatever. Zero issues.I don't think I am some magic DM, that is the same for all the other DMs in the store. Including my 2 daughters.  Why the internet assumes all the DMs and book writers are evil trolls out to eat people I will never get.</blockquote>

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