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<blockquote data-quote="Burnside" data-source="post: 8021074" data-attributes="member: 6910340"><p>I had a conversation about this with one of my group just last night, prompted by some of us having watched the round table of Black D&D players & DMs on D&D Live 2020: [MEDIA=youtube]Q8EGUeCEtDQ:3[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Our group is racially diverse, with 1 Black, 1 Latinx, 2 Asian, and 3 White players. I (the DM) am White.</p><p></p><p>One of the White players plays a tiefling fighter. She really loves the character and wants to continue with it, but she had what I think were some pretty valid concerns. Namely, that playing a tiefling allowed her to sort of "put on the hat" of a person facing racial prejudice, for "fun" and then take the hat off when the game session was over. Unlike some of the other players at the table, she has the privilege of being able to "play" with the idea of being an oppressed minority as a game, while others have to live it in real life. She was uncomfortable with this.</p><p></p><p>I told her that first of all, of course if she was not comfortable - for any reason - she could just retire the character and play a different one. But I also mentioned that in the adventure we'll be playing next (Curse of Strahd) I don't expect racial prejudice towards tieflings to be a prevalent issue. ALL the adventurers are effectively aliens in Barovia, and will be treated with a more or less equal degree of suspicion, enmity, or hope (depending on the NPC).</p><p></p><p>She raised the issue with the full group at the end of last night's session. The players of color immediately said they were fine with her playing a tiefling, and fine with tieflings being oppressed/viewed negatively as part of the game. Most of the other players thanked her for raising the issue and said they appreciated her point, but that they basically trusted me and the other players at the table to handle stuff like this in a sensitive and thoughtful way, so for the purposes of our game it was not a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Burnside, post: 8021074, member: 6910340"] I had a conversation about this with one of my group just last night, prompted by some of us having watched the round table of Black D&D players & DMs on D&D Live 2020: [MEDIA=youtube]Q8EGUeCEtDQ:3[/MEDIA] Our group is racially diverse, with 1 Black, 1 Latinx, 2 Asian, and 3 White players. I (the DM) am White. One of the White players plays a tiefling fighter. She really loves the character and wants to continue with it, but she had what I think were some pretty valid concerns. Namely, that playing a tiefling allowed her to sort of "put on the hat" of a person facing racial prejudice, for "fun" and then take the hat off when the game session was over. Unlike some of the other players at the table, she has the privilege of being able to "play" with the idea of being an oppressed minority as a game, while others have to live it in real life. She was uncomfortable with this. I told her that first of all, of course if she was not comfortable - for any reason - she could just retire the character and play a different one. But I also mentioned that in the adventure we'll be playing next (Curse of Strahd) I don't expect racial prejudice towards tieflings to be a prevalent issue. ALL the adventurers are effectively aliens in Barovia, and will be treated with a more or less equal degree of suspicion, enmity, or hope (depending on the NPC). She raised the issue with the full group at the end of last night's session. The players of color immediately said they were fine with her playing a tiefling, and fine with tieflings being oppressed/viewed negatively as part of the game. Most of the other players thanked her for raising the issue and said they appreciated her point, but that they basically trusted me and the other players at the table to handle stuff like this in a sensitive and thoughtful way, so for the purposes of our game it was not a problem. [/QUOTE]
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