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<blockquote data-quote="ParanoydStyle" data-source="post: 7579087" data-attributes="member: 6984451"><p>All I can say with any real depth of feeling behind it is...</p><p></p><p>"Or that you've chosen one of the races with an image problem, like drow or duergar. How do you deal with it when your PC is too socially unacceptable to go into town?"</p><p></p><p> ...I hate when DMs just IGNORE stuff like this and treat the party like they were normal, trustworthy races and didn't have tieflings or drow or whatever amongst them (which seems to be the default based on the AL/Forgotten Realms play I've seen). Seriously, I joined like a seven member party as a dwarf fighter (Dain Fireforge, Guild Artisan/Battle Master) and the rest of the party were a 2' tall Kobold Luchador (LG monk), a golden dragonborn Gunslinger with golden guns, a Goliath barbarian, an Aarakockra ranger, a Tortle...something....can't remember the rest, except there wasn't one "normal" race among them. When my character would say (in character) "what a bunch of freaks" or "since I'm the only normal person here", it was like they didn't even <em>get</em> that their party would logically be, if nothing else, incredibly conspicuous, if not a gang of literal circus freaks, and thus frequently dealing with NPC prejudice...and since there was no NPC prejudice, I felt dumb for roleplaying it the way I did. Dain was apparently the only person in Waterdeep who saw these guys and thought "man, would you look at this freaking crew". </p><p></p><p>I've started my own game at a different FLGS and one player said they really enjoyed having to roleplay hiding/disguising/defending their character being a Tiefling for once, and that it had literally never come up before with any other DM. If you are a Tiefling it means your great grandma banged a devil or a demon, I don't know which is worse but yeah, I can't imagine the general public sentiment not being equivalent to "she's a witch, burn her!".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ParanoydStyle, post: 7579087, member: 6984451"] All I can say with any real depth of feeling behind it is... "Or that you've chosen one of the races with an image problem, like drow or duergar. How do you deal with it when your PC is too socially unacceptable to go into town?" ...I hate when DMs just IGNORE stuff like this and treat the party like they were normal, trustworthy races and didn't have tieflings or drow or whatever amongst them (which seems to be the default based on the AL/Forgotten Realms play I've seen). Seriously, I joined like a seven member party as a dwarf fighter (Dain Fireforge, Guild Artisan/Battle Master) and the rest of the party were a 2' tall Kobold Luchador (LG monk), a golden dragonborn Gunslinger with golden guns, a Goliath barbarian, an Aarakockra ranger, a Tortle...something....can't remember the rest, except there wasn't one "normal" race among them. When my character would say (in character) "what a bunch of freaks" or "since I'm the only normal person here", it was like they didn't even [I]get[/I] that their party would logically be, if nothing else, incredibly conspicuous, if not a gang of literal circus freaks, and thus frequently dealing with NPC prejudice...and since there was no NPC prejudice, I felt dumb for roleplaying it the way I did. Dain was apparently the only person in Waterdeep who saw these guys and thought "man, would you look at this freaking crew". I've started my own game at a different FLGS and one player said they really enjoyed having to roleplay hiding/disguising/defending their character being a Tiefling for once, and that it had literally never come up before with any other DM. If you are a Tiefling it means your great grandma banged a devil or a demon, I don't know which is worse but yeah, I can't imagine the general public sentiment not being equivalent to "she's a witch, burn her!". [/QUOTE]
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