i used to have a blast with my bros in high school smoking pot and playing m:tg and d&d in the early 2000s. our campaigns were all male power fantasy conan the barbarian style adventures and the dm was a genius "gifted" kid who was very passionate about the game and would make these incredible dungeon panorama sets for us and we'd use mageknight figures for all the pieces. on the other hand i was dating a "nerd" girl a couple years ago and she invited me to play with her friend's group when she learned i used to play, and it was very sanitized and sterile. there weren't any trannies in the group and i don't think any of them were gay, at least they all had their own nerd girlfriends, but some of them gave off pete buttgieg kind of vibes. i'm by no means a chad, but i felt like one around this group. i'd describe the atmosphere as very "white dudes for kamala" and you always had to walk on eggshells to avoid saying or doing something "offensive" around someone's girlfriend (the guys were all completely whipped pushovers). the dm had a nasally voice and would occasionally make not-so-subtle anti-trump or anti-conservative allusions in the game ("you come across a leathery old ogre with orange skin and thin blonde hairs, he notices your party and growls "maaaagaaaaaa" before charging), all of our dungeons were 2d illustrations he printed from some d&d website he found, and we just used wooden board game pieces from like settlers of catan or some shit. he didn't put a lot of effort into things in general. tl;dr ttrpgs depends heavily on who you're doing it with.
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