i have some bad news
Cube6392
joined 2 years ago
i'm of two minds. one is "finally, after all these years of allegedly all straight crews"
the other is "the messaging is 'put all the queers on the queer flight, they don't belong'" and that thought came first and isn't a positive thought
I assume they've never experienced the true joy of enjoying a masterful work of art, an amazing natural landscape, or a really good home cooked meal with friends. They're people who internally are totally devoid of culture. Their lives have seen capitalism strip them of all the joys of what it means to be human and they've responded to that trauma by saying "thank you". They're the Donald Trump voters of internet culture. They're the Drake fans of internet culture. The only thing they value is being on top because they are products of the colonial capitalist society we live in. They can't imagine a world without hierarchy where you genuflect to whoever is on top because that's all they know and they've been conditioned through propaganda not to listen to anyone who says something else could work
At least part of that crowd wants D&D to be a gateway into Mein Kampf. I think it's fine, possibly even good, to have table top games that explore the darker parts of humanity so we can get that shit out of our systems in our basements, but I think the super mainstream games kind of have a responsibility to focus on creating an inviting space for everyone, and the games that get dark need to be considerate in how they design their darkness. Like exploring darkness needs to be the point of the system and it needs to not glorify the darkness. I think D Vincent Baker is a really good example of someone doing that. In Dogs in the Vineyard you're effectively roleplaying a secret police member and you know what? Its fun! You know what else? It opens your mind up a little bit to how fucked up elements of history have been.
He was also heavily inspired by racist fantasy novels. I'm not here to say he was an active racist (someone who promotes racist views) but he was for sure a passive racist (someone who doesn't recognize racist literature when its right in front of them).
I'm not even trying to say we need to cancel Gygax for passive racism. I'm just saying we need to assess the roots of tabletop role playing and figure out how to keep the good parts while abandoning the bad parts. And part of that means discussing that the pulp fiction of the 20s, 30s, and 40s that Gygax was drawing from was HORRIBLY racist.
Gotcha. Yeah. I would definitely consider Russian imperialism very evil and engrained with the systems of power governing the country. I hope for your sake, and for all of your brethren, that someday everyone under the historic influence of an imperial power can someday be free
Where are you living that British Colonialism and Homophobia are over?
Your group is different from ours. Literally all of these would be "yes! What else about this character is strange or interesting"
And we've never had a wizard who wasn't a walking catastrophe. Or a warrior. Or a bard. Mostly the bards. The bards are all disasters
super easy, barely an inconvenience