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Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you don't get to pretend that your entertainment is "free of politics".

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Politics in gaming is awesome, ham fisted writing and design wrapped up in an opinion lecturing the player so it breaks the universe ruleset is crap and does more damage to what ever message you were trying to push.

Sadly a lot of socially important messages are pushed as a selling point by people who don't really have the background to fully create a bridge that speaks to People.

This is the same for a lot of creative work our artists are increasingly coming from privileged and protected backgrounds that we're losing the depth and edge of the art. Indie games as usual are the standard games like Star dew address so much about humanity in a beautiful way.

I play crusader kings for the plot not the politics😄