• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    It’s absolutely mental to create a character to just act as a punching bag for your beliefs. Even if the roles were reversed, I doubt I’d enjoy playing with people like that.

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      28 days ago

      I think the problem is that it’s something not actually bad. Making a BBEG that’s just a punching bag for your believe that murder is wrong is perfectly okay.

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        28 days ago

        Having the BBEG be a bigot and having their bigotry be integrated into the plot is fine. I’m talking about having an irrelevant NPC just exist as the butt of jokes for the players. I feel like I would just get tired of hearing those interactions repeated for hours.

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        28 days ago

        Wasn’t even a BBEG, was just a random NPC in the party that party members would make fun of for being “a man pretending to be a woman”. The character remained in the party through the whole campaign and only served the purpose of being the butt of transphobic humor. I don’t even think they had good stats or abilities.

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      It always felt uncomfortable when they’d do it. I felt unsafe when they would do it. I bet if they saw me now they’d make those same jokes about me directly. Probably also mock me for pronouns. They weren’t good people, I don’t know why I hung out with them as much as I did. I guess I just wanted to feel like I fit in with others. Well I’m glad I never came out to them even when I found out, that would’ve been really bad for me, instead we just quietly went our separate ways.