D&D lets you live out all kinds of fantasies, such as:
-Having everyone call you by your preferred name and gender
-Having a big group of friends who do everything together
-Making a reasonable wage as a freelancer
-Being able to murder the terrible leadership of your country
-Getting 8 hours of sleep
@jacethechicken shit, you're right, I should just remind people that I only get my spells back from a full rest

@falkreon @jacethechicken I'm going to remember that and start using it lol. That's brilliant.

Class: sourcerer.

@jacethechicken These are all legit points.

As a DM, it is my duty to ensure that the world is free of normalised bigotry, and has plenty of opportunities to resolve challenges in a variety of ways.

Also an interesting variety of peoples with practical and understandable (if not necessarily logical) agendas.

And occasionally push my players kink buttons, because I'm mean.

@wyrddrgn my current campaign is kinda a dreary place TBH -- it's basically a hypercapitalist hellscape modeled after the Wild West and Industrial Revolution, and all of my characters are pretty flawed at best. But in happier campaigns I deffo try to keep it Not Too Real lol

@jacethechicken When I GM warhammer 40k, it suddenly gets much less grim and much more LGBT positive.

But currently my Sunday D&D group are in a city which is pretty much monster ankh morpork. Ruled by a lich, a dragon, and a demon. And they're currently doing odd jobs for the hairless, tattooed, tabaxi woman who runs the bath house... who my wife's paladin has a serious blushy crush on.

@jacethechicken magic isn't real only because our culture prevents us from getting eight hours of restful sleep and replenishing our spell slots
@jacethechicken and if you have a cleric, free healthcare

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I can't live out any of those fantasies cus I don't have freinds.

@jacethechicken in fucking before "but dwarves can't be female!"
@trucy
«The gender of a Dwarf is only revealed to those concerned, during courtship, when the concerned parties are deemed mature enough to handle it without giggling (gender not being considered important by most dwarfs compared to things such as metallurgy and hydraulics).»
(where it concerns the #dwarfs of #TerryPratchett's #Discworld at least ;))
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@jacethechicken wait actually where do I sign up
@jacethechicken I've been wanting to get into DnD for a while but these are concrete reasons that I just cannot say no to
@jacethechicken everything about this. All of it.
@jacethechicken Getting 8 hours of sleep is revolutionary. I love that it is included here. :)

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- being able to attack beings who disturb your 8 hours of sleep

@emacsomancer @jacethechicken i just moved to swampy ol' holland, now every night i get to kill like 10 mosquitos and let me tell you, being able to attack beings who disturb your sleep is a lot less fun after the first two weeks

@Vierkantor

amending to:

- being able to cast magical warding enchantments that keep beings from disturbing your 8 hours of sleep

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@Vierkantor koop hor lol
@chloekek the insects are coming from inside the house!!
@jacethechicken I never get tired of these jokes. It's like The Aristocrats for nerds.