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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8470474" data-attributes="member: 7635">This is a very dangerous area though because role playing is supposed to be something your not, and if the consensus is that you shouldn't play something you haven't experienced, you are cutting at the heart of role-playing. Taken a step farther, you could argue you should not play a character that is of a different gender than yourself, or a different culture/rw race, or sexual orientation, since you cannot understand the experiences of those people regardless of you respect or authenticity. It will be a true loss if, out of respect, we lose the ability to try to experience another perspective via role-playing. I've played female PCs. I've played bisexual and asexual ones. I've played African, First World and Asian ones. I've had blind and deaf PCs. I've done my best to not be a caricature of them. I don't always hit the mark. But the notion that those characters should be off limits because I'm an AB cis white male is defeating the purpose of the game in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 8470474, member: 7635"] This is a very dangerous area though because role playing is supposed to be something your not, and if the consensus is that you shouldn't play something you haven't experienced, you are cutting at the heart of role-playing. Taken a step farther, you could argue you should not play a character that is of a different gender than yourself, or a different culture/rw race, or sexual orientation, since you cannot understand the experiences of those people regardless of you respect or authenticity. It will be a true loss if, out of respect, we lose the ability to try to experience another perspective via role-playing. I've played female PCs. I've played bisexual and asexual ones. I've played African, First World and Asian ones. I've had blind and deaf PCs. I've done my best to not be a caricature of them. I don't always hit the mark. But the notion that those characters should be off limits because I'm an AB cis white male is defeating the purpose of the game in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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