Question of the day: How much do you care about plausibility in an RPG setting? What things bug you and what things are you happy to let slide?
@benlehman I care nearly-naught for plausiblity in itself; what matters to me is player buy-in. So to the extent that other players at my table care, it matters, but I don't think I have specific peeves in that category.
I love it when someone makes up thoroughly inexplicable setting details and the other players go, "oooh, *yes*."
@sev Is there a particular fictional thing that's an obstacle to your buy-in?
@benlehman importing real-world oppressions without examining them bugs me. If I'm going to have to do extra work to swallow sexism in a game setting then we'd better put it out on the table and have everybody do the work to justify its inclusion.
@benlehman I'm as guilty as the next gamer, though. One of my Monsterhearts players recently noted this was their first MH campaign in a long time where their character hasn't acquired a homophobic slur as a Condition in the first session - and that's partially because I only just now started questioning homophobia as the default oppression for my game.
@sev @benlehman +1 on everything you just said. Well spoken!