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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8659686" data-attributes="member: 7025508">I see both sides of the issue. No, fantasy world doesn't need to have all the same prejudices and other horrible things than our real world, and like [USER=6915329]@Faolyn[/USER] demonstrates, you can pretty easily come with rather plausible reasons for it. But on the other hand I also see the point that when depicting very close real life allegories, eliding certain negative aspects might come across as whitewashing or even worse, apologism. That Deadlands example of the Confederation banning slavery certainly was uncomfortable! Though it also seems pretty suspicious that this conversation sprung up when talking about fantasy Middle East analogy, whilst similar omissions in our fantasy Europes are rarely considered remarkable.And then somewhat less importantly there are also matters of taste. When playing in a fictional world I don't necessarily want to deal with all the horrible facets of human history, but then again, fantasy worlds where the culture and social norms are just those of the modern western world with some fantasy trappings thrown in for flavour seem rather bland to me as well. And of course injustices existing in the world are good fodder for character motivations and conflict that creates interesting situations.</blockquote>