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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 4209967" data-attributes="member: 17969">On the "Most fun character" thread, Asmor talked about playing a racist southern preacher, and the fun role-playing involved between his character and another PC--a black ex-boxer.It reminded me of my own racist character:  Matthias P. "Sharpshot" Smith.Smith was transported from the 1880's American Southwest to the world where the campaign took place, and the Other PCs were similarly transported from different worlds and eras.As far as racial attitudes go, Smith was what you might call "a product of his time".  He had little respect for Maka-San, the party's Wu-Jen (and it didn't help that Maka-San was a paranoid and greedy misanthrope).Things go even more interesting when we met the campaign's sometimes-patron, sometimes-BBEG: An encyclopedia salesman who'd emigrated from a place just a little bit east of (and a little bit after) Smith's hometown.  This dude was a firm believer in the "White Man's Burden" to civilize all of the other "primitive" races inhabiting the mystical world.  And with the knowledge gained from his supply of turn-of-the-century encyclopedias, he had made an excellent start on the goblinoids.It made for an interesting campaign.  And because the character was ignorantly racist, rather than maliciously racist, he was actually pretty fun to play--Like playing a character with Int 4, but he was only stupid in certain specific respects.So who else has played racist PCs, or dealt with racist (but not villainous) NPCs?</blockquote>

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