How terminally online do you have to be to send death threats and harassment to a person who probably doesn't even fucking know about your issues with the game they're playing. Beyond that, at no point between them seeing her announce she was going to play the wizard game and them hitting send on those messages did it occur to them "hey wait a minute, this is another human being, maybe I should reconsider."
These people are ghouls with no empathy, not only allowed by, but encouraged to sink further into their hatred death spiral by the inherent disconnection between human beings propagated by the web2.0 media space. It continues to baffle me how a community "fighting for inclusion, diversity, and equality" seems to regularly engage in entirely immoral behavior. I understand I sound like some fundie asswipe from the 80s here, talking about Morals and all that, but it's what i've noticed about these "people." They don't fucking have any, they operate on a tribal group vs group mentality at best, and a hedonistic pleasure-at-all-costs level at worst.
When I was younger I hated my family and those older than me in general for not just "living and letting live" in regards to trans people. I bought their bullshit, that they're persecuted at every turn and that older people are just wrong and will be "on the wrong side of history." They weren't backwards or unaccepting, they just knew something I didn't.