OK gotcha nowI was getting at the difference between what you quoted and what you said.
OK gotcha nowI was getting at the difference between what you quoted and what you said.
Eat the Rich is a series of explicitly anti-capitalist D&D adventures:
Eat the Rich | Volume 1 - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild
I think the notion of failed empire built upon failed empire is at least as common. Dark Fantasy is a huge subgenre.far too romantically grounded in the notion of a magical past where good kings rule good kingdoms sort of thing.
X men are currently running a story with VERY different feels then normal (a world that hates and fears you... forget that they took there ball and made a new home or two) the plan had a beginning middle and end, BUT someone realized it was more in line with modern "Find your own place, or just build your own place" mentality that younger readers have flocked to but older (and I may say more financial stable) fans are VERY hit or miss on.X-Men is a good example of using the fictional fiction as a softer way to talk about reality. Or it was until Marvel started to lose readers because these didn't find characters could identify with.
And correct.Let's not go there again. People that believe that everything is political are scary.
I had a game, 5-8 years ago with a good but low wits king telling the players something and (like anyone could expect) they mouthed off... but what they said made all of us (even the speaker do a double take) "Who died and left you incharge"I think the notion of failed empire built upon failed empire is at least as common. Dark Fantasy is a huge subgenre.
Certainly. Doesn’t mean they aren’t communicating a political message or revealing something about their political position in the process of trying not to do so though.Can't this just be a case of someone not wishing to add a political message or revealing their political position/loyalty?
someday I would love someone one to do a deep dive into all the settings and what is and isn't poltical... but here isn't the right place and now is not the right timeAnd correct.
All of that is political…Not interested in politics in D&D adventures. It's not done well and usually assumes one stance or view is correct.
Now, social commentary, or presenting moral or ethical situations where the players can be faced with difficult social decisions is great. Present them with situations they can decide for themselves. i.e. Do they help the poor? Do they free the oppressed?
What about if the oppressors are a minority? Or an oppressed demographic in our world?
Do they kill the dragon and take it's treasure so that the settlers are safe? Or do they negotiate peace between them? Or perhaps help protect the forest from urban encroachment?
I mean, just going through and labeling everything as “political” or “not political” would be easy because everything is political. Unpacking what political messaging is contained in those materials, especially the ones that didn’t set out with the explicit intention of communicating a specific political message would be much more involved, and fascinating.someday I would love someone one to do a deep dive into all the settings and what is and isn't poltical... but here isn't the right place and now is not the right time
Do you think it’s possible for a someone (not you just someone maybe a profiler) to read just our discussions on orcs Thac0 edition wars and the like and make a good guess as to how we vote? If so how good do you think they would have to be to get it right more then 66% of the time?Certainly. Doesn’t mean they aren’t communicating a political message or revealing something about their political position in the process of trying not to do so though.
I promise no one could play shadow run or vampire the masquerade with me for more then a week or two and NOT know who I was voteing for.Now, Cyberpunk, on the other hand.... let slip the dogs of war, so to speak, and bring on that social and political commentary.
Ugh. I feel too many people keep trying to bring real world politics into D&D enough as it is. Obviously if there's a market for it, the product should exist, but it's definitely not for me. The only kind of politics I care about in D&D are those that make sense in-world.And if those adventures don't exist, should they? Do you want your games to have a political slant?
I doubt that anyone could do that with any reasonable degree of accuracy. Maybe if you narrow it down to a very specific policy issue, but in general I think it’s too complex a subject to be able to accurately predict based on opinions about pretend elf games.Do you think it’s possible for a someone (not you just someone maybe a profiler) to read just our discussions on orcs Thac0 edition wars and the like and make a good guess as to how we vote? If so how good do you think they would have to be to get it right more then 66% of the time?