Performative Diversity and Fictional Worlds

When I first decided to GM professionally, I signed up as a player in several paid games. One of the first games I signed up for was a Vampire the Masquerade game. During Session 0, I was overjoyed to learn that the Prince was not only a woman but a woman of color. The Sheriff and half the primogen were also BIPOC, albeit overwhelmingly male. Like many role-players, I cut my teeth on Vampire games that often assigned important/powerful roles to cishet white men with conventionally attractive features, athletic builds, and youthful appearances and I was eager to play games that gave power to a much wider demographic.

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