Player sad because of discrimination?!
Hey fellow dungeon masters.
UPDATE (SOLVED): First of all: Thank you all for contributing! This community id amazing for advice and additional insights in such situations! As some of you pointed out, the player might have been more upset about the fact, that he was singled out than being upset about discrimination, which, after talking to him this evening, came out to be true. So we talked the situation through and found, that there are ways and means to get around the townsfolk and their mostly superficial hatred towards dwarfs. We also agreed that in future I make it clearer that this could happen in specific places either through NPCs or through general narration.
In my last session my players had to escape a fortress formerly run by dwarves but the fortress was besieged and captured by an army of a wealthy (mostly) human family.
The players knew the story and successfully disguised themselves as soldiers of said army with the dwarf of their party miming their prisoner.
The townsfolk was not too happy to see a dwarf on the street and act accordingly (a couple kids threw a tomato, the bar keeper articulated their distrust)
I could see that the dwarf's player took it quite seriously so after a dinner break we had, I decided the barkeeper was secretly helping dwarves and other folks to flee from the town etc.
Still he called me after the session and asked if he could skip next session to "not be in the way" of the other party members who had gathered intel over another quest they wanted to pursue here.
The last thing I wanted was alienating a player and I explained that there are a lot of concepts in DnD to not be seen like disguise kits, not using the main road, travel by night etc.
He reluctantly said he would come to the next session. What could I have done better? What should I do next?
Thanks for any advice!