So I know this is unusual for me. I intend to keep this blog all my original content, but I found this pretty interesting and I’ve been meaning to make more text posts anyway. If you don’t care for this sort of thing, don’t worry, the brews aren't going to be delayed by posts like this, so feel free to ignore this if you are only here for the homebrewing.
1. Not a problem at all, subject of course to the overriding rule of all DM role playing: your players are ok with it. We often focus a lot on big story choices and quest decisions in TRPGs, but role play can be so much more enriching and interesting if you also focus on the every day choices. If you are grumpy in the morning, how you handle small everyday troubles, and how you deal relationships, familial, platonic, or romantic.
2. I certainly prefer fade to black. Not that I’m opposed to the latter, but I think that anything other than fade to black is pretty much guaranteed to violate the principle mentioned above. The one exception to this is one time when I the NPC in question was in fact a doppelganger assassin. But even then it became a combat encounter before anything became too uncomfortable.
3. An odd question. I guess the banal answer is it’s totally fine, seems natural.
4. So if my statistics are correct, and they may not be, approximately 4%-5% of the adult population identifies as LGBTQ+. If that is correct, then my games tend to slightly over represent LGBTQ+ people.
5. Not a problem at all. These are fantasy worlds after all. You can play as all sorts of things, including non-mammalian humanoids, and maybe even non-animalian humanoids, or even non-living things, it seems incredibly silly to import our dumb human ideas of race. As for characters of different sexes or genders, the same applies.
6. Again an odd question. I think my games would be very boring if they only ever featured characters of my own ethnicity or culture, never mind the fact that again, in a fantasy world there may well be no equivalent to real life cultures or ethnicities, which are a distinct product of our world’s history.
7. This is actually something I shy away from. As far as representing real world mental illness or disability, and putting aside things like cosmic horror induced insanity, I think mental illness should be represented through role play, not mechanical effects.
8. This one on the other hand does lend itself well to mechanical effects. How it is represented really depends on what the disability is. A person with disabled leg might have their base speed reduced, a personal missing a hand might not be able to easily use two-handed weapons, it really just depends.
9. Like I mentioned before, I try to stay away from depictions of real world mental disability in my games. As far as physical disability, it comes up every once and a while.
10. Sexual assault. Period. Non-negotiable.
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