I had the wonderful pleasure of dropping in on a game. To protect the identity of the group and players I will not mention any names. I had a blast eavesdropping on the group.

Full disclosure I was playing World of Warcraft (WOW) while I was logged into discord and watching the Map on Roll20. I have to admit I was enthrall on the banter going on with the players and enjoyed watching them move their miniatures and discuss how they were going to explain the bad guy’s death.

It was like watching a TV show to see how the party was going to react. Then it happened a joke was told about the Drow player. And a few people jumped on the DM saying that I know your not being unfair to the Drow because of his dark skin. Unless you have been living under a rock I am sure you heard about the woke culture or cancel culture hitting the media airwaves. So I saw this topic like a crash waiting to happen in that I was looking at it and unwilling to turn away.

Surprisingly it spilled into real world where the discussion was about African-American’s skin pigmentation. One of the players made the comments that blacks do not need to use sunscreen. He was promptly informed that that was a untrue statement, that even thought blacks skin pigmentation did afford them some protection it was not much and therefor they did indeed need sunscreen. The player seems genuinely surprised and thanked everyone for the clarification.

I was blown away, I came to listen to a game and what I witness was friends having fun and educating one another. The world would benefit if more people roleplayed and have some discussions of real world issues/stereotypes in a safe environment.

So I would highly recommend you drop in on a game you may learn something and at the very least you should be entertained 🙂