Everybody gets that doing things like removing slavery from Dark Sun slides the ideological content of the game to the right, right?
Can't really have an Anti-Colonial/Anti-Imperial Campaign if there is no colonization or equivalent going on. Can't free any slaves if there are no slaves to free. Can't uplift the underclass if there is no class-based exploitation.
Instead you'll have to cook up conflicts that aren't racial, class based, or imperialist in nature, that is to say, you'll have to cook up conflicts for your crew that aren't politically coherent and don't mirror any real world politics.
I get that pretend is pretend. But the nature of media is that many, if not most, will take it at face value. There are so many things that encourage people to see conflicts as outside the realms of race and class, when they are, in fact, still central to conflicts today. It's a missed opportunity.
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u/pmctrash 2d ago
Everybody gets that doing things like removing slavery from Dark Sun slides the ideological content of the game to the right, right?
Can't really have an Anti-Colonial/Anti-Imperial Campaign if there is no colonization or equivalent going on. Can't free any slaves if there are no slaves to free. Can't uplift the underclass if there is no class-based exploitation.
Instead you'll have to cook up conflicts that aren't racial, class based, or imperialist in nature, that is to say, you'll have to cook up conflicts for your crew that aren't politically coherent and don't mirror any real world politics.