Mother May I?: The Rpg.net version
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I don't what's more pathetic: The groveling by a forum member to play a game, or the high-handed way the mods treat said groveling forum member. Then again, if you are still on rpg.net, then you get what you fucking deserve.
I’d be asking what possible goal a player could have in mind for playing an intersex character. Is it relevant to the game? Does it confer an in-game advantage?
A fundamental law of human behaviour is that nobody ever does anything that does not benefit them in some way. If there are no benefits to playing an intersex character in-game, then the benefit must be ex-game, that is to say, of benefit to the player, not the character.
And what advantage would it bring the player, then?
The only logical answer that presents readily is that the player is trying to win asspats and accolades for STUNNING AND BRAVE attacks on the assumption that RPG characters don’t need physical deformities to be well-rounded.
This is a choice being made to stroke an ego and gain some kind of smug moral superiority. In a GAME.
It’s a piss-poor character hook dreamed up a progressive fruitcake so their fat, autistic co-players grind their teeth jealously and have to dream up different ways of advancing their characters to the next step of the special snowflake ziggurat.
As a GM I have no issues with anyone playing intersex, or gay, or crippled, or retarded, or bright fucking purple if they can come up with a reason and/or backstory. But if an intersex character constantly walks around in my games (based in The Empire from Warhammer Fantasy) blathering about having mutant genitals, they can expect to attract the attention of Witch Hunters, violent religious fanatics, and some very shadowy groups that love dissecting chaos mutants. Thanks for coming- would you rather be burned alive, vivisected or just plain beaten to death by a mob with torches and pitchforks?
I like Shield Hero. I don't like how some of the stuff is handled (slavery's always going to be touchy), but if you have a sympathetic bone in your body you can see why someone would be driven to such an extreme as the MC was. I also noticed they don't like Goblin Slayer, and I assume it's because of a badly handled rape scene in the first episode. Thing is, if you're a fan of dark fantasy RPGs at all, Goblin Slayer will be right up your alley provided you can get past the cringey rape scene that gave me some of the most confusing feelings in my life. But no, we can't have nuance in our weaboo shit so into the memory hole it goes!
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the rape scene in episode 1 is the only actual rape scene. There's a lot of result of rape and some rape survivors talking about being raped, but you don't see it happen on screen anymore. A cheap way to make sure we hate the goblins? Yeah, but it works to get us in the pretty insane MC's headspace.
I think they hate Goblin Slayer for its racist overtones more than anything else.
