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Ugh, just had an unpleasant memory turn up in my head.
Back when I was younger, first starting to play tabletop roleplaying, I was in secondary school. I got my start with, like many others, D&D. Sort of. One of the people I hung out with starting running, but used D&D basic, and modified it, rather than the actual rules.
My first character was a human warrior or paladin, I forget exactly, but I decided to play a girl.
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At the time I had no idea why I just felt "eh fuck it, why not? It's just a game". When questioned on it because my gm was a dick, and he thought it was "weird", my answer was basically "does it really matter? It's just a character, right?"
Aside from the fact he constantly made sure that any loot that was any good went to his OWN character, and we got the dregs, he also made sure that one piece of sweet loot he gave me was
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one of those "cursed" pieces of armour that changed your character's sex.
By force.
He gave me no opportunity to get it checked out beyond identifying it, which somehow didn't bring up that it was cursed, OR its actual effect. Oh and it actually gave no armour bonus whatsoever despite being "magical", so itw as just a way to force my character to be a guy instead of a girl.
I never understood why it stung so much until now.
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@Nine YAY!!!! Yeet that MF right in the sea (am I doing this intarwebz stuff right?)
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@Salith to yeet is always acceptable
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That GM really was a dick btw. I think I was only friends with him because I didn't know better and I was desperate for some kind of social group to be a part of.
Really glad I didn't give up on roleplaying though because I definitely very nearly did because of him.
It wasn't until I was an adult and moved away from that town entirely that I started enjoying roleplaying again.