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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5949653" data-attributes="member: 1165">Much of that is realistic. Sexism exists, and was worse way back when. Racism was so strong (it was called something else) people might hate people from the next door province, even though they have the same religion and (almost) the same language. Classism existed, as did slavery. A realistic setting might have all of those things.There was an episode of Deep Space 9 way back when, where the crew visited a 1960s America in the holodeck. Captain Sisko was late to the party, and he was actually upset that there was no racism in the reenactment, saying it wasn't realistic.HAVING SAID THAT, this kind of thing should never restrict PCs. In a setting like Game of Thrones, female warriors were extremely rare in most of the old kingdoms, but characters like Arya and Brienne (which came from such old kingdoms) exist. Sure, they're the exception, but they're important characters. If you have a setting where only men can be priests, a female PC can still be a cleric - she's a nun, or some similar title. Any PC is an important character and can "bypass" those rules.NPCs (especially villains, like the above-mentioned drow) can behave badly, but players shouldn't be discouraged from playing character concepts (not for that reason, at least) and shouldn't be allowed to act like jerks, just because they decided their PC is "sexist" or what have you. Obviously one can take immersion too far; it might be realistic for a sexist NPC to refer to a female PC by a rude name, but it's probably not a good idea for the DM to RP the NPC in that much detail beyond "he's rude" or "it's obvious he's disdainful of women".</blockquote>

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