sea_urchin [they/them]

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Cake day: January 14th, 2022

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  • Posting this as a reminder to myself and anyone else who needs it — i need to take a break from social media, including this site. I know its important to be able to vent, but with the doomerness its hard for me to ignore. Having trouble scrolling past stuff, my brain still picks it up. Maybe after a lil break I can use this site without it contrivuting to cptsd nightmares!!

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  • I think this is something to keep in mind when formulating ur campaigns. The raciality of d&d and indeed “races” in real life are based on white supremacy. If you don’t outright get rid of “races,” you should be treating them the same as if they were all just different kinds of humans, instead of playing into the fantasy where the hero is made to look “white” in comparison to say, a goblin. The goblin exists in its form to supplement the “white” hero.

    More and more, especially with Barker, another prominent trailblazing ttrpg scholar and writer being outed as a neo nazi, it is hard to separate the origin of amerikkkan ttrpg from reactionary, white supremacist, chuddy facistery.

    However, d&d is very much a thing that can be reclaimed. Being a nerd isn’t just for mayos!! There are plenty of IBPOC in the nerd traditions. As well as, marginalized mayos and others like myself.

    I always broke the rules and treated the “evil races” like ppl. One time I did a random d&d game with a professor guy who turned out to be a leftist. He was shocked by my actions, and some other dude left the table lol. Me n the prof are still friends :p