Misogynistic D&D

Dude, last night I dreamed that I got a couple of ladies to be in Bill’s D&D game. But I didn’t put anything in the campaign that would appeal to them, like social interaction or role-playing. I just ran the campaign as I normally do: lots of monsters to fight and loot to collect. I even put in elements that would be patently offensive to them, like brutish NPCs that would leer at them and proposition them for sex. I thought I was just portraying a medieval world in the rough-and-tumble way it would actually be. So they decided to sabotage my campaign. One of them killed her own character because of her treatment at the hands of an NPC, saying she had been abused by her father and couldn’t take it anymore. The other girl sailed away on a ship to a different continent in the game world, forcing me essentially to create another campaign specifically for her. I asked them why they were doing this, and they explained my mistreatment in detail. I wanted to argue that most of the media a lot of people are exposed to is male-dominated, but I let the matter slide because deep down I knew they were right.

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