shieldheart
First Post
Black gamers: Weal or woe?
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Having played d&d almost exclusively with an all white group, the concept of a black gamer is somewhat foreign to me. In the dozen or so sessions I've played with black players, I've found that black gamers, by virtue of their race alone, change the gameplay experience dramatically.
Most of the time it's a headache.
Hear me out now, I've got nothing against black players. They're awesome and everything. The problem arises mostly with the white players whenever there's a black present. They almost always act differently. Some guys will hold back from being their normal selves and restrain themselves from cracking potentially offensive jokes where they otherwise wouldn't hesitate. Some guys will go out of their way to try to impress the black, in game or otherwise. I've wanted to pull out my hair during sessions where guys spent the entire 3 hours chatting up the black player, distracting him and everyone else from the session and holding it up.
Has anyone else had similar experiences? How do you deal with it? I want to include a few black friends into my gaming sessions but I don't want the atmosphere of the group to change.
Clever. But I'm not white.
I'm not going to defend the political correctness of questioning the benefits of having a female gamer at the table as I'm sure it really isn't politically correct. I believe there is a distinction between men and women. I don't think there is a difference in the intrinsic worth between a man or a woman but that doesn't make them the same in all aspects either. If that makes you think of me as sexist, that's fine. I know what I am.
Thanks for editing my post and replacing all instances of the word female with black and male with white. It's really clever how you painted me as racist with just a few keyboard strokes.
People are different. I've made no comments about the relative worth of any people. Where I'm from, cultural differences are recognized and celebrated. I don't pretend that everyone is the same. Shame on you for your hackneyed attempt at calling me out.