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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8071328" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Your own biases are showing; his question can be as easily applied to the people offended by combat mechanics in games (and there are a few, most of whom aren't gamers), people who are offended by compulsory actions in games, people who are offended by ahistoricity of a period game (which sometimes includes me), people offended by there being a sociopolitical agenda driving a game's design (which includes me some of the time), people who are offended by games which have PCs on what is normally considered the "Bad Guys" side. I've known people offended by Reich Star sight-unseen; Explaining that the game is about fighting the Reich  in the 23rd century only mollifies some of them. Same people usually also find Grey Ranks offensive (It's set in a ghetto in Nazi Germany during WWII). (Likewise, some people are offended at the very existence of the Maus graphic novels. Similar effect.) I've known a number of hardcore gamers who have a totally insane hatred of anything even vaguely historical in games.I've known....<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A few gamers who hated Twilight 2000, Morrow Project, and/or Aftermath simply because they presume WW 3 happens. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A good number who hate on (Classic) Traveller because it's got death in Char Gen as a possible outcome.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Quite a few who find table driven RPG rules offensive, without ever having played them. (Rolemaster especially gets targeted. Simple mechanics, but lots of tables.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A number of gamers offended by the "Great Wheel Cosmology" of AD&D... for a variety of reasons, including the idea that characters have an afterlife determined by their played alignment; others upset that each religion in the game doesn't have its own outer plane.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A few people offended by Star Wars because "The Empire are just space nazis"... (one was once a card carrying member of the NSDAP, when he was a Boatsman in the 1940's. I've not seen him in 35 years now.)</li> </ul>There are quite a few things that people find offensive that aren't Race, Gender, Sexuality, nor Religion based, and many who find fictional things based off historical evils as offensive when in games.</blockquote>

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