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Yeah, trying to find a DnD group online has been a nightmare.

Found a promising group - the premise of the campaign seemed interesting and compatible with a character I'd come up with, the DM was experienced and seemed nice, etc. But one player decided he was gonna "test my knowledge" of DnD. Already shite behaviour in my opinion - it definitely wasn't an effort to determine how much support I'd need from the group, he was so clearly dying for an AHA, I caught you out! moment since he was dismissive of me from the moment I joined the Discord. But it was particularly irritating since this was after I'd had a chat with the DM and he had evidently decided I knew enough that he wouldn't need to explain the basics to me. So I noped out. Found another, and the DM wanted to introduce my character to the on-going campaign by making her a damsel in distress, captured and raped by bandits and he wanted to the group to find said bandits mid-attack. He was very insistent on that. He thought I wasn't very committed to roleplaying games when I said no thanks...

The first DM didn't really get why I had an issue with the guy grilling me on DnD. The second guy was just entirely oblivious to why it was weird he wanted me to roleplay getting raped over voice chat with a group of 5 random men I'm just speaking to for the first time, even after I explained myself to him.

I also got told I don't look like I play DnD over and over, with varying levels of accusatory undertones...

Then they wonder why "women don't play DnD". We just don't play DnD with them hah.