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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9413276" data-attributes="member: 18">Wow, I feel like you've really never looked into what a lot of like real indie RPGs produced by younger and more diverse people today look like. The stuff that's mostly on itch.io, not on Drivethrurpg (though some is on both). I have a huge amount of it thanks to some bundles, and a lot of it is fascinating (if in some cases I think underdeveloped).There are absolutely RPGs which are about that kind of thing, and why on earth shouldn't there be?Similarly grief and other issues are absolutely things that there are TT RPGs that engage with - <a href="https://www.huntersentertainment.com/alice-is-missing" target="_blank">Alice is Missing</a>, for example.Personally I feel like you're speaking from ignorance here and that you're being quite narrow-minded, without any apparent rationale, as to what RPG "should be allowed to be" about. Ironically the stuff you're saying RPGs "maybe shouldn't" be about is stuff that's much more likely to come female, non-white, or LGBTQ+ authors. I know that's absolutely not the reason why you're saying that, but it feels like maybe that's worth considering?I feel (and I may well be wrong to think this, feel free to correct me) maybe you're thinking about like, something potentially gross like a dungeon-crawl through someone's head to "cure" their grief, but I dunno, I think even that could be done right - I've seen videogames which had some interesting ideas that way, and probably could be rendered as TT RPGs.</blockquote>

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