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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 304017" data-attributes="member: 514">gamers more accepting....I've believed this for a long time.  For many years now I've been attending 4-6 game conventions a year.  I've played hundreds of different characters in many settings, genres and systems.Because of this I've had exposure to the mindsets of many different characters.  I remember one game at a convention where I played a middle-aged, single jewish woman, who was homophobic and extremely religious.  I am a gay male aetheist (and at the time I was in my early twenties).  But even though I am so different to that character I still managed to understand her life, and think about things from her perspective.  I argued her points, and defended her sensibilities.I came out of that game with a better understanding of zeal - something I've never really had in my life.  I could see more of the world because of experiencing this person.I believe the saying is "before judging a man, try walking a mile in his shoes" - something like that anyway.  When rolelplaying, especially if you do get into the mind of a character, you are walking that mile in their shoes.And once you do that you can see that people are people.  They want love, they want acceptance, they want life.  They want to be happy and safe.  That is common to us all (I know someone will dispute this, but so what).  Once we can see this, and accept it, we can accept different people a lot easier.And so, to re-iterate, I suggest that by playing many different roles (at least when people get into character rather than just seeing a set of stats), one learns to accept different people.Duncan</blockquote>

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