My current campaign has a character whose parents still live in the town where the adventure is largely based. A lot of effort is spent convincing other townsfolk not to tell his mother what he's been up to. It's fantastic.
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There are a lot of books. They are all stand-alone stories, but have continuity with recurring characters. Some are in more closely linked arcs, like the Death series, the city guard books and the witches books.
The Tiffany Aching series might not be a bad starting point. While they were among the last to be written, they introduce a young trainee witch who's power is basically being rational (much like other Discworld witches).
At that age she might be interested in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The Discworld books are fun fantasy stories that don't overtly push an agenda, but have a consistent, subtle theme of mocking the absurd aspects of things like superstition and religion.
As a youngster they got me thinking about things more critically.
Examples of quotes in the books: "What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right" - Small Gods
"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it." – Monstrous Regiment
"Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to." - Snuff
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were both great games, with good story (if a little cutesy, but it’s aimed at being family friendly), not even really any allusion to sex.
A bit yes and no with TOTK I think.
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You are right that TOTK doesn't have any explicit sex or romance. But the way the introductory cut scenes for Purah and Riju deliberately start from their legs and pan up over their bodies doesn't really have a purpose other than to sexualise them and announce "look how hot we've made these characters for you."
Time to use Lay on Hands.
This is basically what I do as well.
One thing I find useful is to list your party's Perception modifiers, use the formula above for a random d20 result for each PC, then add them together (for example, =B2+C2). Then when they walk into a room, hit F9 for an instant whole-party secret Perception roll.
The moon needed to be de-nazified.
The barbarian isn't going to just say "I roll athletics" without explaining what they are trying to achieve. Same for persuasion. "I try to convince the mayor we are experienced enough adventurers to assist" is enough to let the GM know what the intention is and give context for the NPC's possible reponse.
There will always be exceptions, for example for disabilities or medical conditions. Most of those exceptions will be more accessible to wealthy or influential families that can afford to pay off doctors than poorer families.
My 5 year old believes that unicorns exist, they are just really good at hiding in the forest. I'm not going to tell them that it's not true.
The best I've been able to come up with is saying some people believe in god, some people don't. Some people believe in ghosts, some people don't. Everyone believes in different things, we can let them believe that without believing it ourselves.
It was merely the people who decided they wanted to choose for themselves which doors they would enter, and not be told by an admin they couldn’t enter certain doors.
I don’t like being told which parts of the internet I’m not intelligent enough to decide for myself about how I feel.
and if I see a community on any of them I don’t like, then it’s MY job to block it from my view, not an admins.
I can't see a sensible way to read your comments as anything but critical of admins who choose not to federate with all instances.
My so-called vitriol is because I appreciate that by running an instance, admins are providing a service to me while bearing the brunt of the financial and legal responsibilities that go with that. If I don't like how they run it, it's incumbent on me to get out of their house and move into my own rather than complaining.
They had Australian servers about 10 years ago. I quit when they closed them down, forcing people to transfer their characters to servers with that where considerably more laggy.