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One Of My Players Is A Furry & It's Getting
Problematic - DM At His Wit’s End
Dungeon Master : Nice meeting you lads, casual
DM here with an ever frustrating situation,
or more aptly, player.
He's a good friend of mine, in fact even on
the worst of days I think I could call him
a best friend, but as of late his 'fursona'
has been plaguing my, and a lot of my player's,
games.
So what do I mean?
Well the lads a furry, and believe me I have
no problem with it, more power to him, but
this particular interest has rooted itself
in our games like a weed refusing to move.
Now that may sound harsh, he's just a furry
what's wrong with him playing one?
Well a few things.
Dungeon Master: The worst case was a typical
classic fantasy campaign I was running.
Everyone chose their race and class.
You had your human barbarian, your dragonborn
cleric, and halfling rogue.
Standard.
But then he decides on his character.
A nude, anthropomorphic
fox man . . .
See, the fox I
was alright with, but I'm not allowing any
nudity in my games unless it's justified,
no one wants to picture some fox dong flopping
about in the midst of combat.
But it doesn't
end there.
Just today another of my player's
started his own campaign based off of different
real world mythologies like Greek and Norse,
where in we all played acolytes of our chosen
gods.
For instance mine was Hypnos, the God of Sleep!
And then he decides his character.
An acolyte of some Japanese fox God.
Viking Warrior: *sighs*
Dungeon Master: It was at this point that
I think I realised what I didn't like about
this whole furry business, it's not that I'm
prejudiced against it or that I find it some
abominable atrocity to nature, it's just that
with a world of opportunity laid bare before
him, all it ever is, is foxes…
Another case was when he himself
ran his own campaign.
Now to his credit he was a surprisingly good
He made sure there was always
action to be had, a world to explore, lore
to be known and things to do.
It was a World War One era dieselpunk campaign,
which we all found to be one hell of a setting.
CAPTAIN Dungeon Master: Return fire!
Where’s my fire
support?
Dungeon Master: We also found it one hell
of a coincidence that now allied with the
Allies in this alternate universe was 'the
fox empire', which he then decided was one
of the greatest superpowers of the war.
FOX: Hey there.
CAPTAIN Dungeon Master: Ugh, c’mon
Dungeon Master: Lastly, there was today.
I had written up a new adventure I'd like
to pursue.
It was another home brew that this time was
inspired by Weird War Tales comics, which
if you didn't guess were war themed stories
with some weird twist.
Like sentient Nazi Gorillas
or an island inhabited by dinosaurs.
For this I instructed my players that they
would be a commando force assembled as all
of the weirdos of the world.
We had a cyborg mummy, a human sized Gamera
and, would you believe it, a 10 foot fox.
Worst of all is at this of all times he decides
to roleplay... licking all of the players
in the game.
CYBORG MUMMY: Really!?
Dungeon Master: Honestly, I don’t know why
I’m telling you this.
Maybe it's to vent steam, maybe it's to get
some ideas on how to get the guy to broaden
his horizons.
Maybe it's just a cautionary tale about boundaries
and how important they are in your games.
Whatever the case is, don’t be this guy.
Sorry.
Fox.
So how did you guys like the story?
A bit different from the usual, no?
But just as much badass and ridiculously rad!
Did you feel the furry ‘phursona’ was
a bit too much, though?
I mean, licking own party in combat!
That’s gotta be up there even in the never-say-never
world of Dungeons and Dragons!
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