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Player kept trying to sell my droid character to NPCs along with being racist towards droids.
So my friends and I have a Discord server where we all chat and hang out. A few months ago, we managed to get a group of us to form a D&D group. We had a rocky start and our ups and downs, but much fun was had. We've had a few people volunteer to DM, and the most recent one offered to do a Star Wars 5e campaign based on the conversion we found.
We'd been pretty excited to do the campaign, and I ended up making a Class IV Droid fairly early on. What I didn't know is that apparently it is canon to be racist towards droids? One of the other players made a Harch(?) character that was apparently very racist towards droids. But I wouldn't find out until early on in the first session.
Shortly after all of our characters met up for the first time together, the Harch character immediately tried to pawn my character off to the bartender, completely unprompted. It was a decent enough joke if it was a one-off, but a pattern very quickly emerged.
We left to find a general store to purchase weapons, and when it came to the Harch's turn to speak, he immediately inquired about selling my character to the vendor. He kept offering lower and lower prices, and when the vendor adamantly refused to buy a new droid, the Harch offered money to the shopkeeper to take me. He would also often talk about how droids aren't people, and you wouldn't be courteous to your tools like a wrench. It was a fair point to some degree, and my Droid at the time didn't bother responding because he wouldn't have cared what the party members were saying as long as the mission objectives were being completed. I did however message the friend outside of D&D at this point and say that the droid hate was starting to get old. I didn't receive a response, but I hoped they would ease off.
Boy was I wrong. He kept going on about how droids aren't people and saying rude or racist things about droids, sometimes even changing an entirely different conversation back to this topic. At this point I was really tired of having verbal abuse being hurled at my character, so at the intermission, I messaged the DM with my concerns over how aggressively hostile the Harch was being. He agreed that it was going a bit overboard and went to talk to the other player. I also sent the player a few messages on why I felt the droid hate was going overboard, but received no reply from him.
Thankfully, he stopped mentioning selling my character after that, and I thought it was great to have talked it out like adults. The rest of the session was pretty fun, like the D&D from past campaigns. However, the next day, in the D&D text chat, he was talking with other players about some stuff related to the campaign, and it came up again where he was reiterating that it was canon that people were racist to droids. I was reminded of the really terrible first half of the session, and I just don't have the mental energy to deal with the negative energy this player was going to put out towards droids.
Maybe I'm just a bit weak-willed, but I don't want to have to deal with all that shit, so I messaged the DM that I was considering dropping out because of that stuff and the player. I asked one other friend who's in the campaign if I was being reasonable, and he said I was being drastic, so I don't really know. The DM said he hoped I'd show up to next week's session, and at the moment I'm undecided. I mostly wrote this because the whole situation has put me in a foul mood today. I might change my mind when I'm in a better state of mind, but I kinda wanted to vent and get this frustration off my chest.
For the record, I hold no hard feelings towards my DM, because it's his first campaign and session, and I know how hard it is to get everything to work right. I feel kinda bad that this thing even had to come up. I will also say this is completely written from my point of view, and is incredibly biased in my favor. It's entirely possible I just reacted poorly to some lighthearted jokes.
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So my friends and I have a Discord server where we all chat and hang out. A few months ago, we managed to get a group of us to form a D&D group. We had a rocky start and our ups and downs, but much fun was had. We've had a few people volunteer to DM, and the most recent one offered to do a Star Wars 5e campaign based on the conversion we found.
We'd been pretty excited to do the campaign, and I ended up making a Class IV Droid fairly early on. What I didn't know is that apparently it is canon to be racist towards droids? One of the other players made a Harch(?) character that was apparently very racist towards droids. But I wouldn't find out until early on in the first session.
Shortly after all of our characters met up for the first time together, the Harch character immediately tried to pawn my character off to the bartender, completely unprompted. It was a decent enough joke if it was a one-off, but a pattern very quickly emerged.
We left to find a general store to purchase weapons, and when it came to the Harch's turn to speak, he immediately inquired about selling my character to the vendor. He kept offering lower and lower prices, and when the vendor adamantly refused to buy a new droid, the Harch offered money to the shopkeeper to take me. He would also often talk about how droids aren't people, and you wouldn't be courteous to your tools like a wrench. It was a fair point to some degree, and my Droid at the time didn't bother responding because he wouldn't have cared what the party members were saying as long as the mission objectives were being completed. I did however message the friend outside of D&D at this point and say that the droid hate was starting to get old. I didn't receive a response, but I hoped they would ease off.
Boy was I wrong. He kept going on about how droids aren't people and saying rude or racist things about droids, sometimes even changing an entirely different conversation back to this topic. At this point I was really tired of having verbal abuse being hurled at my character, so at the intermission, I messaged the DM with my concerns over how aggressively hostile the Harch was being. He agreed that it was going a bit overboard and went to talk to the other player. I also sent the player a few messages on why I felt the droid hate was going overboard, but received no reply from him.
Thankfully, he stopped mentioning selling my character after that, and I thought it was great to have talked it out like adults. The rest of the session was pretty fun, like the D&D from past campaigns. However, the next day, in the D&D text chat, he was talking with other players about some stuff related to the campaign, and it came up again where he was reiterating that it was canon that people were racist to droids. I was reminded of the really terrible first half of the session, and I just don't have the mental energy to deal with the negative energy this player was going to put out towards droids.
Maybe I'm just a bit weak-willed, but I don't want to have to deal with all that shit, so I messaged the DM that I was considering dropping out because of that stuff and the player. I asked one other friend who's in the campaign if I was being reasonable, and he said I was being drastic, so I don't really know. The DM said he hoped I'd show up to next week's session, and at the moment I'm undecided. I mostly wrote this because the whole situation has put me in a foul mood today. I might change my mind when I'm in a better state of mind, but I kinda wanted to vent and get this frustration off my chest.
For the record, I hold no hard feelings towards my DM, because it's his first campaign and session, and I know how hard it is to get everything to work right. I feel kinda bad that this thing even had to come up. I will also say this is completely written from my point of view, and is incredibly biased in my favor. It's entirely possible I just reacted poorly to some lighthearted jokes.
Edit: After reading many o