tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post7235570775574679393..comments2024-03-09T19:23:22.482-03:00Comments on The RPGPundit: Classic Rant: Putting "RPG Inclusivity" Into ContextRPGPundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-43409752441297017722017-01-03T17:47:04.361-03:002017-01-03T17:47:04.361-03:00"The idea that Old-school gamers only want to..."The idea that Old-school gamers only want to, or need to, or ever did only play characters that "look" like them is ridiculous."<br /><br />I've known a few players that look/act more than a little like a Dwarf. Short, hairy, argumentative, and drunk yet I've not known anybody that actually wanted to play a Dwarf. Funny that.Ruprechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00139664977453444000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-12460169119232567852016-12-31T20:56:06.133-03:002016-12-31T20:56:06.133-03:00What annoys me about discussions of virtue signali...What annoys me about discussions of virtue signaling in RPGs is that any character willing to go into dungeon looking for treasure is operating at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy - and when you're there you don't care about sex and gender identity, you care about where the next meal is coming from and where you can sleep for a couple hours without getting killed. So the whole concept has nothing to do with the game, it's an attention getting device for the player to the detriment of the game. <br /> Now I don't run pure medieval fantasy, as I know that in such a world life is nasty, brutish and short and lacks the dramatic scenes that give life to a RPG. I've had a number of players run characters of the opposite sex (yawn) and in nearly forty years of gaming (starting in Tekumel) I can't remember anyone asking if they could play a character of a particular skin tone - mainly because it has no effect on the game, unless the DM (me) wants to make the effort to give it one. If a player ever tells me they have a transgender character - my response will probably be along the line of 'and that makes what difference exactly to the hobgoblin with the axe about to brain you?'<br />TSR published Empire of the Petal Throne before Greyhawk and Blackmoor, making it the oldest campaign settingRod Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12824146866756155345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-80462973776754100842016-12-31T16:25:04.864-03:002016-12-31T16:25:04.864-03:00Frisky: I think you've nailed it, but I'd ...Frisky: I think you've nailed it, but I'd like to add my hypothesis about why. <br /><br />They've abandoned any objective moral standards. It's all subjective now. You're a good person if you adopt the latest virtue-signals on Twitter before your friends do. You have to loudly insist that the latest virtue-signals are eternal verities you've always believed. (Remember when all the Lefties who used to snigger about "J. Edgar Hoover wearing a dress" suddenly discovered that trannies were an oppressed minority and they had always supported their right to use the women's bathroom?)<br /><br />Societies -- even fictional, imaginary ones -- which don't follow the Twitter-mob enthusiasms of the moment threaten their claims of virtue and worth. If being first to denounce the Outrage of the Day is meaningless, then "Progressives" aren't actually any better than the rest of us, and can only measure their worth by what they've actually done (i.e. nothing). Trimegistushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17421300991534803449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-84234127483075074662016-12-31T05:39:12.936-03:002016-12-31T05:39:12.936-03:00Seems like an incapacity to imagine things, and fe...Seems like an incapacity to imagine things, and feelings of being uncomfortable when you are forced to imagine or behave like someone from a different world/society. Which makes you wonder why these people are into roleplay in the first place. What's next? Actors saying they don't want to play characters in settings that don't align with their contemporary and (quite possible) fleeting ideological preferences?<br /><br />I may be seeing too much, but I note an undercurrent of fear in these people. Fear at the possibility that other societies worked perfectly fine without those " 21st century middle-class liberal west-coast values." The possibility that, perhaps, their vision of the world isn't really necessary or inevitable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com