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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8304069" data-attributes="member: 6778210">I mean, Golarion has always been pretty cosmopolitan. The Goblin thing is still a bit of stretch, but part of that is Paizo trying to capitalize on a race they feel is iconic within their setting and it's only surprising if you haven't been paying attention to any of their media output. Not sure what other races had a similar problems, though.[ATTACH=full]138279[/ATTACH]I mean, you give "colonialism", which is Sargava/Vidrian, and nothing was really "solved" as much as things just advanced: yes, the government is no longer simply Chellish colonists ruling over Mwangi tribesmen, but that doesn't suddenly make things a utopia. Instead, it's a post-colonial society dealing with post-colonial problems (the quick societal change is remarked upon a source of tension in its entry in the World Guide, which is all we really have to go on) as well as its own defense problems after breaking things off with the Shackles pirates. So instead of the simple colonial problem, they are dealing with the way more relevant problems of post-colonial society, which are really way, way more interesting by comparison.For Absalom and slavery, that always felt untenable? First off, slavery returning to the city was a recent thing, driven by Chellish power and protected by Lord Gyr despite a great deal of resistance from the city itself (which had been remarked upon in stuff like Guide to Absalom). Now Gyr has been gone for a hot minute and Chelliax's power is at least in flux given the number of revolutions (successful or otherwise) going on in its borders. Combined with the noted resistance to it and the recency in which it was implemented, I'm not sure how much more justification is needed in-story to eliminate it. From an writing perspective, slavery is a big topic that shouldn't be broached lightly, and I don't think Paizo was ever read to deal with it in a place like Absalom; it always came off as more of an edgy afterthought than something taken with proper consideration.</blockquote>

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