Piracy And Other Malfeasance

Krachek · Mar 24, 2024

My rule of thumb is that we can used freely the tone we saw in TV shows.
For piracy we got a range from One piece to Shogun ( the main character can be seen as a pirate…. ).
So for now I get enough space to play.

Argyle King · Mar 24, 2024

Reynard said:
Because there are only extremes.

Gray covers a rather large pallette.

At the very least, movies claim to contain up to 50 shades.

TheSword · Mar 24, 2024

My current pirate campaign has a Racketeer, a bounty hunter, a wizard, a surgeon, a priest and a very sinister witch.

They run the gamut from merely bloodythirsty to downright wicked. I must say I enjoy it.

As always, whatever the group enjoys.

aramis erak · Mar 24, 2024

bloodtide said:
It is such a big problem. Most young gamers (say under 30) just come from an alien viewpoint. They know very little real history, they don't keep up with the news and have only watched a couple mostly animated Tv shows and movies that all gives them a nice "rated G" view of the world. And then add all the silly video games on top of that.

It gets to be pointless trying to explain that my game is "real" or "hardcore" or anything else. No matter what I say, they will just think "oh like that silly rated g cartoon I watch".

Or the players will just lie, say they understand and want to start playing the game.

I've encountered very few such children... mind you, I was an elementary school teacher up to about 2015.
Most of my students were aware of the major news - their parents watched TV news, they listened to radio or watched news on youtube. Most of my time was in long term sub positions at low-income schools.

The ones clueless were from very well off (neighborhoods with houses worth >$0.5M, car worth >$100k)... they weren't exposed to news at home. My kids got exposed to news in the car, since I tend to listen to NPR.

Tonguez · Mar 24, 2024

kenada said:
Were we “bad guys”? Perhaps to some. We generally treated our friends and allies pretty well. The game was about struggling to survive and fighting for power. Sometimes, that’s not going to be pretty. If you want to be “good”, then you have to do things that would be considered good. It’s not a given. The basic structure of the game is to put that to the test, so you can see who the characters really are.

About a month ago I attended the funeral of a retired gang member. He had been a wonderful father and ran his own business (a wielder, working on shipping containers). From a family perspective he was a great guy, who contributed to his community and had kept his children out of gang life.
We also heard how as a teen he'd been sent to borstal for stealing clothes and had been recruited into a motor cycle gang, becoming an early leader with mates who were burglars and got in to fights and some of whom were consider dangerous.
I don't know if the guy we buried was a good guy or a bad guy, he certainly had a varied and colorful past and was more Pirate than Robin Hood, but he was a loving protective father and generous to his community, roleplaying a Pirate doesnt mean they are unmitigated evil

Dannyalcatraz · Mar 24, 2024

Reynard said:
Because there are only extremes.

Umbran · Mar 24, 2024

Cadence said:
Do most of the storm troopers in the empire actually fire at (let alone hit) anyone?

They are actively suppressing the populace with threat of violence, which isn't what we'd call shiningly ethical.

Cadence said:
How many of the thousands of people an individual tax collector for the empire sends things out to are being ground to poverty by it?

I don't recall anyone in canon complaining about Imperial taxes, so that's kind of speculative.

Voadam · Mar 25, 2024

Umbran said:
I don't recall anyone in canon complaining about Imperial taxes, so that's kind of speculative.

Rewatch Episode I to see high taxes be a canon Star Wars political plot point leading to war and the fall of the Republic.

Palpatine instigated the whole Trade Federation Republic War on a tax issue he engineered.

Tonguez · Mar 25, 2024

Voadam said:
Rewatch Episode I to see high taxes be a canon Star Wars political plot point leading to war and the fall of the Republic.

Palpatine instigated the whole Trade Federation Republic War on a tax issue he engineered.

yeah absolutely hate that Trade federation blockade thing

pawsplay · Mar 25, 2024

Tonguez said:
About a month ago I attended the funeral of a retired gang member. He had been a wonderful father and ran his own business (a wielder, working on shipping containers). From a family perspective he was a great guy, who contributed to his community and had kept his children out of gang life.
We also heard how as a teen he'd been sent to borstal for stealing clothes and had been recruited into a motor cycle gang, becoming an early leader with mates who were burglars and got in to fights and some of whom were consider dangerous.
I don't know if the guy we buried was a good guy or a bad guy, he certainly had a varied and colorful past and was more Pirate than Robin Hood, but he was a loving protective father and generous to his community, roleplaying a Pirate doesnt mean they are unmitigated evil

It's very easy to demonize people of a criminal background, yet people don't question "heroes" that come from backgrounds who are easily as responsible for as much suffering and death. The line between "knight" and "bandit" is mainly one of pedigree; both are militants who extract wealth from civilians, mostly kill each other, and occasionally commit atrocities against innocent people.

I worked with plenty of gang families while I was a social worker. They may not be better than anyone else, but I don't think they are any worse than any other group, in the general.

Piracy And Other Malfeasance

Krachek

Hero

Argyle King

Legend

TheSword

Legend

aramis erak

Legend

Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow

Dannyalcatraz

Schmoderator

Umbran

Mod Squad

Voadam

Legend

Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow

pawsplay

Hero

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