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I remember a fairly lengthy Champions adventure in White Dwarf around that time (can’t remember the issue number) so they didn’t only support D&D, Traveller and Runequest. Actually, I don’t recall much support for Runequest.

As a teacher I can tell you that a lot of "students of" trot out jargon without any understanding of it's origin or original sense, and don't think to critique orthodox dogma.

Having good actors is definitely required to tell a good story. Which means casting based on resemblance to a particular artist’s interpretation of a character rather than acting ability will inevitably lead to a bad show. But for me, I’m afraid it’s about politics. In the current climate, not...

I would say the lack of the sort of dialogue tools that NWN has is a bigger obstacle to telling a good story than the actual writing.

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A bridge that people live on, industrialisation, Bazalgette's sewers, walls that it long since expanded beyond. It's London, around about the 18th century.

They didn't in any sense that there was one group of people who eventually became Anglo-Saxons. This is Aryan thinking.

It kind of is, because the people doing the writing are employed for other skills than writing. So it’s a hit or miss how good their writing skills are. With a bigger budget, you can hire people whose only job is writing, so hopefully they should be good at it.

Daeran is quite similar to Astarion, and got there first.

Yes, I learned about all of these. It's important to learn about the evils committed by our ancestors, so we don't repeat them*. As a child raised in Liverpool I spent a lot of time in the museum, where there was a lot about the city's role in the slave trade and how the city benefited (and...

Wells was writing about social issues, the science fiction was simply a vehicle for that. So War of the Worlds is about colonialism, The Time Machine is about class division etc. No more is the different more evident than in traveling to the Moon. Verne attempts a realistic method (including the...

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous managed to make a likable aasimar companion character by making him affably evil and gay.

It's terribly railroady, in the sense when the game actively prevents you from doing the sensible thing and makes you do the stupid thing on several occasions. KotOR had a similar dodgy camera, but people let it off because the plot was good. Masks of the Betrayer gets by for the same reason...

I don't know what your parents were like, but my parents, who lived through WW2, taught me to be tolerant of everyone apart from fascists.

Then your beef is with players, not the publishers. It was the players who popularised tieflings immediately they appeared as a Planescape-specific option. The publisher was slow to respond, and it took the best part of a decade and the company changing hands before they were accepted as a core...

Aside from the ethnicity of the characters, the female images are male gaze cheesecake, and I’m told have insulting Native American cliches. It’s also sh*t. Any TV show should ditch the Elmore art and forge its own path. But we know there are people who will throw their toys out the pram if the...

Why? It’s pretty common for novelists not to reference the ethnicity of characters. It’s only Elmore’s cheesy art that is the problem. The society I live in has lots of black and Asian people (but no native Americans). Excluding those people would just be weird. Besides, Tanis’s endless self...

Female - one a villain, one a late addition damsel in distress stereotype, and one presented as a double-PC with her male protector (with an allergy to pants). Non-white? One pseudo native American who was illustrated with paler skin than me (a white guy) and Jossed early on. I don’t think...

Yeah, I can think of a few that are worse than Solasta 1, but NWN was the most high profile. Although NWN2 main campaign was only marginally better.

Yeah, Cormyr is definitely Hollywood medieval Europe, whilst Dales is Tolkien Edwardian rural England. But really, the city of Baldur’s Gate is closer to what England is really like.