If using in the third person. What these nuts want is for you to refer to them (see what I just did there?) using "they/them" in the first person.
I'm quite sure that's not the point of DCC. They use singular "they" for third person to describe GM's, PC's and players actions within gameplay, specifically as neutral form.
Now sure there are various
individuals calling themselves enby, that tries to use as their defult pronoun singular or plural, but tbh even then I'm quite sure they (sic!) do not use it in first place.
All those xirs/zens/hshes and others still use I AM in first person. At least I've not yet found one doing otherwise, though sheer amount of lunacy points they exist.
I am a native English speaker, and I promise that anyone who wrote this is as full of bullshit as DCC is.
"They" is plural in English. Anyone telling you otherwise is already playing the Woke game.
Well Wiki claims otherwise, and I must say given examples of utterly non-pronoun use they points out - I'm quite sure that's form I was taught to use. In 90's, in Poland, so rather without much woke influence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_theyI am a native English speaker, and I promise that anyone who wrote this is as full of bullshit as DCC is.
But why complain? If THEY want to be dehumanized, that's THEIR decision, right?
Indeed. Funny enough in Polish there is impersonal form of verbs, it lacks any pronoun and it's built in a way that something was done, but no Subject is given.
There's sci-fi novel written in 1st person which is in 80% written like this, after narrator lose faith in his own existence as essentialy separate subject.
That's the argument that gets used. And it's fine if you live in centuries old england. But we don't.
Check Wiki link above - those forms does not sounds like some old English.
The generalized form means that singular example is representative of the general group.
Which fits excellently for abbreviated players and GM's in description of gameplay in RPG book. Because singular they-GM is representative of general GM's. Example.
And it somehow sounds good... so I'm not really that fond of abandoning proper form to avoid association with woke.
(No one can argue that DCC while using this form properly, do it for nefarious reasons, and that's highly likely - but there is question how contrarian do we want to get. If we went too far anti-woke gonna be just as ludicrous parody as woke)
Consequently, I always refer to this person by name. I also talk to this person directly using "you," which for some reason is okay. "You" has traditionally been used to refer to males and females, so I'm not sure how that's not offensive to this person. But what do I know? I'm just a regular guy. Shrug.
You is second person, and second and first person are not gendered in Indoeuropean languages. There is just one form regardless. All push for pronouns is linked to 3rd person.