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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 1073273" data-attributes="member: 2795">Exactly. Gaming is a social event. Consideration is due all around. But, as I believe it was Fusangite who pointed this out, gaming is a voluntary, private social event in most cases (barring things like conventions). This affects the amount of bending that can be reasonably expected, especially of the host in whose home the game takes place.My home is a no-smoking zone. Smokers are welcome to game in our group, but they cannot smoke inside the house. I have two young children who are sometimes in the house during game time. If this is a problem for a player, too bad. IOW, if you're a smoker who must smoke in of doors and does not like children, my home is not the place for you to game.Of course, this does not excuse pointed rudeness or deliberate malice. For example, no one in my gaming group would dismiss someone's opinion on a matter based on that person's gender or attribute said opinions to the influence of hormones (i.e., no one would imply that opinions expressed result from a "testosterone love fest").At the same time, I game with friends. If someone says something foolish, he can expect to be made fun of. If someone says something factually incorrect, he can expect to be corrected. This is part of the social aspect of gaming for us as well. To someone outside our circle, our quips may very well seem hostile, even hateful. Of course, this begs the question as why everyone, even the "victim" is laughing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Finally, this bears repeating:</blockquote>

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