Paizo Pathfinder to remove slavery

[Bagpuss]

From a Freelancer: An Open Letter to Erik Mona

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after the open letter (see link above) by an unnamed freelancer asking about slavery in the game, Erik Mona has responded (also in the link above) saying going forward slavery won’t appear in pathfinder removed without any in game explanation.

Not sure if slavery appears in Starfinder but I imagine it will be going from there as well if it is.

 

[Yora]

I hope they remove murder and robbery soon.

 

[Bagpuss]

They had already made it illegal in the setting and freed the the majority of the slaves. Seems even fictional bad guys can’t do fictional bad things if it upsets some people.

 

[Bagpuss]

I hope they remove murder and robbery soon.

And spiders

 

[John R Davis]

And the utterly ridiculous looking goblins

 

[payn]

Love those Gobos!

 

[Blue Orange]

I kind of agree. I mean, you could at least make it an evil act (though I guess alignment change isn't really an issue anymore?)

I sort of feel like this is a redo of the satanic panic of the 1980s, except from the left instead of the right. I mean, reading the linked article it was presented as option for player characters to buy a slave, with prices and everything--I'm cool with getting rid of that. But it really seems like this is turning into a bowdlerized version of the world. First it was demons and devils and half-orcs and assassins, now it's slavery and racial attribute modifiers. I guess there really is nothing new under the sun. Maybe in 10 years they'll bring them all back and we'll be complaining about fossil fuel burning and meat eating in 30.

From the end of Stephen King's The Stand:
'Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.'

 

[CleverNickName]

I hope they remove murder and robbery soon.

 

[Garthanos]

Love those Gobos!

they are cute.

 

[Bagpuss]

I mean, reading the linked article it was presented as option for player characters to buy a slave, with prices and everything--I'm cool with getting rid of that.

Which they did. They made slavery illegal in the Absalom, from the open letter...

"But it happened. Pathfinder Society Scenario #9-00: Assault on Absalom. An in-game event, requested by players, that led to the abolition of slavery. In one city. By conscripting the enslaved people to fight in a war and then giving freedom to the survivors."

Seems that wasn't enough.