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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8891374" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean the nuclear option, which would take a lot of RPGs with it, is to attack them because they're basically about colonialism and raiding at its worst, i.e. "civilizing the frontier" (!!!), killing people and taking their stuff (!!!), at best "reforming" "evil" and "lesser" beings, at worst slaughtering them (!!!).Like, I gotta be honest people are always like "OMG RPGs are getting like so politically correct now maaaaaan" and it's like I'm just sitting there going "Buddy we're playing a game about how thrilling colonialism and raiding is, and justifying it by saying we're the 'good guys', like most colonialists and raiders thought they were!".But even on the left, people just don't talk about that. Even on the far left. Even the people who don't like this don't talk about it, they just make different games about different things. Because people want their dungeon game. Because it is fun to pretend to be a justified raider, raiding for justice. Kicking down doors, taking stuff - but for Good, I tell you, not evil! I'm no viking! OR AM I?!?!?!Anyway, I think that button will get pressed eventually but we're decades away.(As an aside, my first "Are we the baddies?" moment was all the way back in 1990 or 1991, when I'd only been playing a year or two, and I read Traveller: The New Era, and realized the people the game was lionizing, the "Space Vikings" seemed like total scumbags, and then realized, wait, aren't they actually perilously similar to adventurers in general? Then stuff like Maztica, which was to be fair SUPER RACIST (don't make me link the PoCGamer article) was lionizing conquistadors and I was like "OH GOD NO".)</blockquote>

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