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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8468006" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Easy: You'd need to actually assault or kill someone before a play experience is considered real.Or, as an example: In a recent session of my game, they encountered a BBEG who--according to my notes--was going to flee if reduced to half hp or below. Welp, apparently hexblades can do a metric ton of damage on a critical smite and so the BBEG left pretty quickly, leaving his expendable guards to their squishy deaths at the PCs' hands. And so the party--especially the hexblade--has decided that this BBEG is a coward and are making fun of him for it, calling him a pathetic coward and the like. Just wait until he returns. &lt;evil DM laughter&gt;This is in-game mockery. This is making fun of a specific individual for a specific perceived trait that the BBEG demonstrated.But this thread is about making fun of a group of of real world people for an inborn trait. It's not about people who are saying, &quot;How many times have we told you not to touch everything you see, you numbskull?!&quot; to the party's rogue. It's about people who are acting in a stereotype of &quot;stupid&quot; people because it's either funny to them or they think it's how &quot;stupid&quot; people act. It would be like playing a gay character by lisping.I don't see how &quot;don't be a dick&quot; is the same as &quot;these games cause mass shootings!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8468006, member: 6915329"] Easy: You'd need to actually assault or kill someone before a play experience is considered real. Or, as an example: In a recent session of my game, they encountered a BBEG who--according to my notes--was going to flee if reduced to half hp or below. Welp, apparently hexblades can do a metric ton of damage on a critical smite and so the BBEG left pretty quickly, leaving his expendable guards to their squishy deaths at the PCs' hands. And so the party--especially the hexblade--has decided that this BBEG is a coward and are making fun of him for it, calling him a pathetic coward and the like. Just wait until he returns. <evil DM laughter> [I]This [/I]is in-game mockery. This is making fun of a [I]specific individual [/I]for a specific perceived trait that the BBEG demonstrated. But this thread is about making fun of a group of of [I]real world [/I]people for an inborn trait. It's not about people who are saying, "How many times have we told you not to touch everything you see, you numbskull?!" to the party's rogue. It's about people who are acting in a stereotype of "stupid" people because it's either funny to them or they think it's how "stupid" people act. It would be like playing a gay character by lisping. I don't see how "don't be a dick" is the same as "these games cause mass shootings!" [/QUOTE]

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