Responsible Roleplaying

Tabletop Roleplaying Games allow you to play mystical beasts, shapeshifting thieves, and every day humans from a myriad of backgrounds. With this freedom comes some responsibility. If you as a player choose to play a character whose background does not match your own, be mindful of the kind of marginalization people who come from those backgrounds face, and consider how your roleplay of that character may impact those at the table who might experience elements of that marginalization. Caricature and stereotype of a background you are not a part of can often be alienating and hostile. You may as a group decide that certain backgrounds are off-limits to players who haven’t experienced them, be that disability, gender identity, or race.