It's fake while containing gay.

If they were giving in-universe reminders about the growing undead threat and the arrival of said threat isn't an immediate campaign ender, then yeah. Gotta roll with what the players do without making their efforts pointless.

"The population rising up against authority and for social progress is clearly colonialism from beyond the force wall", is certainly one of the takes of all time.

indigenous nation

We don't know the player's characters aren't indigenous.

Found the tankie

Oh, please. The CIA would never interfere because of social values. If there is oil involved, or the interests of a big American company, though...

I really like your interpretation

Also if we step out of that for a second, I was confused that some people in the comments were mad at the DM/narrator of this story. The question of whether he's the one being an obtuse meanie is really down to what the groups' dynamics are;

• do they know each other well enough to completely goof off his premise and instead have a meme campaign? Then DM is wrong.
• are they meeting for the first or second time? Then they're disregarding the work DM did to plan a campaign, and are in the wrong.

It feels pretty shit when you just want to share something with people and they sideline or walk over it for something else.

That's why your interpretation works really well - much like the CIA they are disrupting an existing culture/status-quo and betraying the trust first shown towards them, when fostering a reciprocal relationship could be more effective to achieving their goals. Meta-Imperialism

what a wild and cynical world you must live in. Just divorced from any joy or whimsy.... have fun making everyone around you feel awkward....

I know this one! Not all countries provide tax deductions for marriage. I was going to say there is not one in Japan, but on looking it up, it is more complicated than I care to look at. (I understand spouses tend to have separate finances, but I am far from Japan.)

The historical lens on taxes and marriage is also as complex as one might think.

Point being, in your setting, marriage does not need to have any tax implications at all.

Edit: Removed paywalled link about history of marriage.

shit man we're up for a reckoning aren't we... well, at least we fought the good fight of

Actively ignoring the DM's campaign direction is a dick move itself.

Do this thing or there will be consequences.

I wanna be a murder hobo and kill random people!

Consequences.

Yeah no, you're just wrong.

I don't know much about DnD but i don't think OP necessarily has any hangups or it can be certain they're homophobic. They created a world with a history and problems and conflict just like any realistic one would have.

If they created a world where the neighboring country has a vast army, because its mostly made of slaves, that doesn't mean they're pro-slavery. It means they're world building.

I have to disagree.

Its more realistic to a medieval fantasy setting for marriage to be that way. Historically the upper class essentially did control who could get married, so they could use it to their ends, and were more bigoted than the lower classes - so gay marriage wouldn't have been a thing even if gay relationships themselves were generally well tolerated in the rest of society.

If Anon had any hang-ups from the players trying to overthrow the upper class to legalise gay marriage (aside from the players completely derailing their campaign), then they could've just stopped the session and not let the players even try it.

Having the Lich come at the end is really just the DM getting their own back on the players for refusing to engage with the actual campaign.

DM is a mild bigot

No idea where you get that idea from tbh.