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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8303476" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Racists, Sexists, Homophobes...As a young teenager I played D&D at a FLGS/Comic Shop called "The Bookmark". One of the players was openly gay and took SO MUCH FLACK about it. Similarly, Black and Mulatto players got smacked with insults and assumptions and stuff. And dudes would almost always interrupt and talk over female players, even on -their- turn in combat.This was Georgia in the 90s... so not only was it expected, speaking out against it could get you ridiculed and kicked out of a game. Happened to me a few times.Also had similar issues trying to get together games outside of the Bookmark. And as the DM I would call out older players and even threaten to remove them from my table if they continued. Often times the victim would pipe up and tell me it was fine because, y'know. The 90s in Georgia.Eventually I started going to some other FLGS and ran into similar problems there. Finally I started just doing curated home games, mostly with minority players or all-white groups... Anything in between meant white dudes ragging on everyone else.My parents wouldn't let me go to the gay guy's house to game, even though he was in a loving relationship and considered his partner of 8 years to be his husband. 'Cause even my family wasn't immune to bigotry, much as I wanted to be.Growing up a bit more I dealt with a lot of Extreme Subjective Morality where a player chafed at the -idea- that there were alignments and would go to ridiculous ends to explain why it was perfectly Lawfully Good from their character's perspective to try and burn down the orphanage. Or attack other party members.And, of course, the Minmaxers and "We should skin every animal we kill and take any potentially valuable meat/horns/whatever to sell!" encumbrance monkeys.EDIT: I should not have used an outdated and heavily connotationed word for mixed heritage. However it would also be inappropriate to completely remove evidence of my mistake. Instead I will provide this correction to the post, along with a sincere apology.</blockquote>

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