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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tahyer" data-source="post: 7738118" data-attributes="member: 6912926">Hello, I am Carlos Gomez Quintana (the one speaking in the article).I Apologise if my words were misleading, I do not have a political agenda for this game, what I meant to say with anti-colonial thinking is that I do not automatically take the side of the Spanish just because I am Spanish. Many, many people have accused me of just that so much while making this game that I just try to get that out of the discussion straight away (we had a huge controversy late last year with a VICE article written about us by someone who accused us of colonialism without reading the actual game). The fact that I condemn the exploitation of people for any reason in real life (and even more for such a puny reason as race) does not mean I cannot write a game in which that is represented in a non-preaching way. If I saw the typical D&D heroes in real life I would think they are a bunch of blood thirsty psychopaths, but hell, it is fun when you forget about that and play within the game's fantasy. I simultaneously think that Hernan Cortes was a cruel conqueror who stopped at nothing to obtain gold and glory, and that he was one of the bravest men in human history who achieved a feat with no equal. If he lived now I would rally to stop him, but he lived 500 years ago when men were very different beasts to what we are supposed to be today, and at that time his enemies thought he was a monster and his allies thought he was a hero. I want to write a book in which you get both reads. DCA is a pre-colonial game anyway, which means that it takes place from the moment the Spanish arrive until before the actual conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes. Could your own adventure stretch further into those events? Sure, do as you wish. Help one side or the other, or stay away, that is your prerogative. We will show all cultures (from both Continents) as nuanced and complex things with moral codes based in their beliefs in the XVI Century, not ours. So, yes, the Mexica perform ritual sacrifices and engage in ritual cannibalism, and yes, if your character does these things he'll gain powers from it. The Spanish get their divine rewards from converting or killing non-believers. Are these things bad? Well, to us yes. To them? No, it was just, fair and made perfect sense.EDIT: autocorrect fail.</blockquote>

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