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My only beef with GMs is when they describe everything in the room in minute details, they talk about how the air feels, the humidity, the tension, and THEN they say "Oh, and there's a big dragon too."

HOW THE HELL DID WE NOT SEE THE BIG DRAGON FIRST!?!
I do it now when I GM only because it's a running gag.

My favorite way to buck that trope is to act like I, as the narrator, am reacting in equal surprise to the presence of said dragon.

Example:

Players: "we break down the door"

Me: the door buckles under your weight and OH MY FREAKING GOLDEN TAP SHOES YOU GUYS THERE IS ABSOLUTELY A DRAGON IN HERE AND SHE LOOKS CHEESED AT YOU. The room is a broad expanse of thick stone and the floor is littered with bones and broken wayfinders. That would likely be startling if it weren't for the sulfur fumes and dripping acidic saliva that is pooling next to your shoe as the HOLY CARP DRAGON RIGHT IN YOUR FACE blinks her eye and prepares to annihilate you so thoroughly that it actually hurts your ancestors retroactively. Roll for initiative. Aim high. This is going to hurt.

As a self-identified sapiosexual, body-positive, sex-positive, and consent-positive cis-woman reading this thread, I found myself both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised in turns. I'm going to keep my comments on the positive side because I think that's Important to Try To Do.

Things that happened that were Totally Awesome:
- People talking about the line between a fantasy world as fantasy and as a reflection of our existing world;
- People saying smart, respectful things about how we can use a fantasy world and our participation in it to undermine patriarchy and hetero-normativity;
- People actually trying to answer the OP's really interesting questions about how sexual orientation and identification play out in the game canon and also from table to table;
- People recognizing that hetero-players can choose to play nonhetero-characters and vice versa, in addition to people playing whatever gender they choose;
- I clarified some of my thoughts on what I hope for in a fantasy world in which I invest my time and money, and that was helpful;
- I learned some things about the game world I didn't know (Which is actually why I risked reading the thread);

I'm new to this community, and don't always know how much is safe for me to say or share as I explore the game and its players. I'm fortunate to have a really amazing group of people I play with in both the Society, and AP's. Some of you out there are doing a great job showing me that the culture I expected is far less vitriolic and hazardous than I imagined. Thank you for helping to create safe and happy and intellectually rigorous space for non-traditional players and the characters they build and love.

Rabbit.

If food/game nerds are interested in collaborating to come up with real-life options for in-game food -- Hi, I'm Darling Rabbit. Let's chat.

@Matt_T: while ancient mayan/incan cuisine probably doesn't resemble modern (especially modern served-state-side) Mexican, Arcadia would probably be the business end of our Columbian exchange. That means things like maize, potatoes, tomatoes, coffee, etc would be native to the area. I feel like for fun purposes, I'd fudge it and just make lingua all day every day because why not. The interesting part for me is to see what cultures are interacting where (and when) to determine what the cultural fusion might yield. What are subcultures up to? Can I research this. Will there be footnotes. Can there be footnotes.

tl;dr I could probably brainstorm this all day instead of working.