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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Therise" data-source="post: 5712888" data-attributes="member: 6683949">In my experience, which is merely anecdotal and not meant to suggest truth for everyone, playing any deep-issues emotional content at the gaming table can be troubling for the DM and other players.  Most people prefer to use gaming to de-stress from the hectic nature of life, not delve deeply into things that are perhaps better explored in anything -but- a game session.  Whether the emotional issue is sexuality, death, severe financial loss, reminders of debilitating medical problems, whatever, it just makes people uncomfortable.  Games are meant to be fun, and while they can serve as a kind of therapy (distraction, exploration, etc), it's not good to subject others to deep personal issues without their consent.  I'm here to game for fun, not provide someone with a free alternative to REAL therapy at the cost of my own comfort level.  I didn't agree to that.  I agreed to beat up orcs and evil mages with you.Too many people can't handle the "blurring" that happens in the context of gaming.  As a straight woman, just being friendly with guys at the table during roleplay can be mistaken for other things.  Adding in-game roleplayed sexuality (homosexual, heterosexual, or even omnisexual if your PC is supposedly "into" orcs or gnomes) can seriously muddy things in ways that activate my "squick" factor really fast.  You have to think about what people will take away from the table, the assumptions people will make, it's just not good to go there.Just my $0.02.</blockquote>

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