My players are all playing freakshit races, and in many areas in the setting, freakshits are seen as beneath humanity. I am trying to figure out how to roleplay the racism. I don't want just "I hate piggers" sort of deal. That's too obvious and inorganic. I want a spectrum. Like, maybe being ignored at a shop versus getting service due to their race. Perhaps politely but firmly asked to leave a tavern. Weird looks by the locals. Stuff like that. I feel like racism in modern media (and media in general) lacks subtly. Anyone got any sort of examples?
>>97110832have local Guards not trust them & have them "keep an eye on them" shops tell them no loitering, rush them on buying their stuff or outright not selling/buying to them, Taverns refusing to give them rooms or outright lying about their availability, have locals say underhanded things like "someone like you wouldn't understand" or "it's a civilized thing" have the NPCs talk down to them in a highy matter..
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I don't understand how this could possibly be difficult. Even if you don't think racism in the real matters, or even exists, it's all over modern news and media. Just copy ANYTHING.
>>97110832Last 3.5e campaign my group played we had goblins as a major oppressed underclass in certain parts of the party's homeland. In rural areas they were obliged to live in small, designated villages where they could be monitored to ensure they weren't colluding with bugbears or other goblinoid species. In cities (at least those cities which allowed their presence at all) they'd have to live in walled-off ghettos which they were only allowed to leave during daylight hours and only to go to their place of registered employment, or in the presence of a human overseer. They'd be restricted to employment in fields such as street cleaning, tanning or certain simple crafts. Many made their living as thieves or fortune tellers or other gypsy-coded occupations. Their ghettos were inevitably dens of scum and villainy because goblins are NE by nature and fully deserved all the discrimination they received. Of course they were hated by just about everyone but enough of the emerging bourgeoisie found them too useful as a source of cheap labour to let the peasants kill them off as they frankly deserved. My mate was playing a NE goblin priest who joined the party to assist with an investigation into a series of murders and disappearances, hoping to prove the goblins of his ghetto weren't responsible (regardless of the truth of the matter) so as to stop it being progromed into a charred husk. One of the other guys was playing a dwarven moneylender and travelling judge who never tired of commenting on the short-sightedness of the human kingdom with their failure to enact a Final Solution to the goblin problem.
What races are they playing?What role do those races have in the setting?A tiefling should experience a different style of racism in a setting where they're rare and just something most people know from stereotyped rumours or that fairytale granny told you about a family cursed for being evil, demon-worshipping witches vs one where they're a large, legally-oppressed minority in a crusader nation on the frontline in the battle against a demon lord.
>>97110922This is good
>>97110832Change it up depending on what the player is playing.Dwarf? Yeah, they're probably well liked but will get stereotyped as greedy by some.Elf or wizard? They're mysterious and intimidating but liable to get the blame if anything weird happens. Moreso if they're both.Tiefling? Literally hellspawn, expect distrust at best and hurled vegetables in rural areas.Dragonborn? Similar to the Dorf, everyone's gonna expect things of you even if they don't necessarily dislike you.Beastkin? Probably gonna vary a bit but expect to be treated as exotic or bothered a bunch by curious peasants.
>>97110922Don't forget that classic. "IT'S A PIGGER!" when the come into town by another half-orc who swears to be a dragonborn human hybrid who is bigger and greener than them. (With a Tuba playing in the background when he speaks.)
>>97110832how much do you want it to dominate or slow down play? Keep in mind that playing the card occasionally is much more powerful than playing it all the time. If everyone, always, everywhere is a bastard, it gets old and repetitive very quickly. Keep in mind to contrast it with people who are indifferent or sympathetic/ helpful
>>97110832Traditional games?
>>97111686Do you have stupid? Asking for DM advice is traditional games related
>>97110832Watch Birth of a Nation to see how mega-racist people were back then.
>>97111712*mega-honest
>>97111062>i made goblins into jeetsJeetblins?
>>97110832You need to pick or make up detailed stereotypes that arent immediately obvious like the stuff >>97111452 lists. Look at real life stereotypes and what makes them prevelant.Recently released black slaves can only really grow watermelon? NAW MAN THEM NIGS AND THEY MELONS LMAOOne (1) scammer gets upset over the redemption of a gift card? HAHAHA ALL JEETS YELL SAAR DO NOT REDEEM BLOODY BENCHOD
>>97111784Less of a nose then goblins but smell worse and are weak to soap attacks
>>97110832Just think of all those local lord posts and how they basically treat adventurers like walking pariahs, but apply that to their species instead of their vocation.>Told to leave pubs because barbarians/orcs are known to be violent thugs who can't handle their liquor, and they're just simple folk who don't want no trouble>Given the stinkeye by shop owners and told to leave if they're not buying anything because everyone knowns rogues/halflings are all filchers>Local monks repeatedly denounce and demand repentance from sorcerer/tiefling everytime they pass by because they're devil worshiping abominations>Drunken louts repeatedly keep coming onto the cleric/elf because it's known all clerics/elves are whores who will suck anyone's dick for a copper piece, else they wouldn't be dressed like that in public>Guards keep trailing you and treating you like shit because fighters/drow are known to be shifty, lazy trouble-making creeps that go around harassing innocent civilians and not paying their taxes to their brave and honest local lords
>>97110832You do not want to be subtle if you want to teach your players a lesson. Kill their characters. Repeatedly. Mercilessly. No rolls. Do it over and over until they learn that Humans are the best race.>I play Llawyllellillollallillellon the Elf!>Okay, the mob with torches and pitchforks assembles 10 miles from your location. Hope you're fast enough, faglo.
>>97112039>10 milesI think the elf will be okay, given the standards of angry mobs these days
>>97112039>die_freakshit.jpg>white human male being killedi wonder (((who))) is behind this post?
>>97110832I don't think you're roleplaying.
>>97112039>You do not want to be subtle if you want to teach your players a lesson.The lesson that you are not a person to play games with?
>>97112155Literally a mutant
>>97111702That's not gm advice. Thoughbeit. It's just a made up scenario made to ragebait culture war gamelets.
