Young/new activists have a ton of energy and that’s great, but they often fail to recognize that people who have been aware of injustice and fighting it longer get tired and become okay with settling for things that aren’t necessarily 100% ideal, and the former group needs to learn to respect that and let people live, because we can’t all be responsible for everything and we don’t all want every aspect of our beings to be politicized entities.
Hi consider this your blessing from a certified forever GM, to please make your TTRPG characters Mary Sues.
Listen if you spend enough time in the hobby you will inevitably get people turning up their nose, saying you need to make your PCs “realistic”. These people are wrong! Especially when it comes to DnD. There’s nothing wrong with tropes but after a while all the human fighters who used to be in the army, and elf wizard trying to live up their family legacy start to blur together.
The same cannot be said for the diamond-skinned demi-goddess cleric who started her prayers with “Hey mom, it’s me”; the self-described “slutty pyromaniac” tiefling sorcerer; the ranger who wanted to domesticate an army of rats and declare herself “queen of the sewers”; or the slightly macabre mushroom druid who became a sheepgirl while trying to cast “trans your gender”.





