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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 3863967" data-attributes="member: 7240">Well, if you were not playing in a giant online kitchen sink clown car, you would find your views would be treated as perfectly normal.But clearly the people who are attracted to games in which everybody is some kind of Undead Half-Nixie, has a level or two in Llama Slayer or Radiant Sodomite and is firing Japanese throwing stars and muskets at their adversaries are not the kind of people who are going to be interested in some kind of anthropological fidelity.I recommend that you either give up co-GMing or co-GM with people who are on the same page as you are.Your reasoning is sound but it is not consistent with the social contract of the game in which you are participating. What you need to do is find players who actually like your style. You can't force people to want different things from the game than what you are interested in providing.Both:You are RIGHT that in a socially realistic D&amp;D society, common people would tend to discriminate against tieflings, drow, etc.You are WRONG that the people for whom you are GMing want a socially realistic D&amp;D society.No. Put your energy into finding people who share your tastes and gaming with them.You want different things than your players do. There is no in-game solution to this problem. The solution is to game with people who want similar things to you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 3863967, member: 7240"] Well, if you were not playing in a giant online kitchen sink clown car, you would find your views would be treated as perfectly normal. But clearly the people who are attracted to games in which everybody is some kind of Undead Half-Nixie, has a level or two in Llama Slayer or Radiant Sodomite and is firing Japanese throwing stars and muskets at their adversaries are not the kind of people who are going to be interested in some kind of anthropological fidelity.I recommend that you either give up co-GMing or co-GM with people who are on the same page as you are.Your reasoning is sound but it is not consistent with the social contract of the game in which you are participating. What you need to do is find players who actually like your style. You can't force people to want different things from the game than what you are interested in providing.Both: You are RIGHT that in a socially realistic D&D society, common people would tend to discriminate against tieflings, drow, etc. You are WRONG that the people for whom you are GMing want a socially realistic D&D society.No. Put your energy into finding people who share your tastes and gaming with them.You want different things than your players do. There is no in-game solution to this problem. The solution is to game with people who want similar things to you. [/QUOTE]

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