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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8120048" data-attributes="member: 18182">It's a fine comparison. There's no need to compare or rank whose trauma or distaste is greater.Most of us could probably agree that slavery is awful . . . but yet it works itself into a lot of games, sometimes with slavers as villains to fight, sometimes as PCs being enslaved, even sometimes with PCs being the slavers (rare) . . . it isn't always obvious to folks that even slavers-as-antagonists can be triggering for others.Religion can also be triggering for folks if they've had bad experiences with it. Personally, I'm not a big fan of real-world religious faith, despite my fascination with mythology and the supernatural. I've had LOTS of bad experiences with religion and the religious, and would rather not play in a game where faith is required of my character, and I'd be leery of a &quot;faith-based&quot; game . . . although the right theme, tone, and story seeds could make for a lot of fun, even for an atheist like me. It's super not obvious to some that pushing religion on a PC, even a fictional fantasy religion, can be triggering or distasteful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8120048, member: 18182"] It's a fine comparison. There's no need to compare or rank whose trauma or distaste is greater. Most of us could probably agree that slavery is awful . . . but yet it works itself into a lot of games, sometimes with slavers as villains to fight, sometimes as PCs being enslaved, even sometimes with PCs being the slavers (rare) . . . it isn't always obvious to folks that even [I]slavers-as-antagonists[/I] can be triggering for others. Religion can also be triggering for folks if they've had bad experiences with it. Personally, I'm not a big fan of real-world religious faith, despite my fascination with mythology and the supernatural. I've had LOTS of bad experiences with religion and the religious, and would rather not play in a game where faith is required of my character, and I'd be leery of a "faith-based" game . . . although the right theme, tone, and story seeds could make for a lot of fun, even for an atheist like me. It's super not obvious to some that pushing religion on a PC, even a fictional fantasy religion, can be triggering or distasteful. [/QUOTE]

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