More on sexism and racism in games.

22Mar/070

More on sexism and racism in games.

More on New Horizons the game that is going to put racism and sexism into every pulp game. I'm going to have to buy it because ...

Alexandria2000 writes: Or if they ARE mentioned, itâ€™s in a stereotypical way that makes my teeth ache. So hell yeah, gimme a chance to inject a little reality in the pulp. Stop ignoring the people I want to play because â€˜reality and history were boring and sad.â€™

Surely you mean to add a little fantasy and unreality into the pulps.

That said - there were stories which were indeed sympathetic. The standard pulp hero is ideed a white man, but he often relied upon other racial and sexual achetypes to get things done and more often than not, treated them as equals even if society did not. I'm beginning to see this supplement being an opportunity to put reality in and I'm really thinking that's the last thing we want to do. Reality is and was bigoted and ugly.

You have a choice. You either make race irrelevant so someone can play a female asian hero who leads the charge against the darkness (and thus rewrite the genre and change history) or you include reality and run the same character and spend half your time smacking landlords and officials about for their lack of modern sensibilities.

Said like that it seems like a petty revenge plot.