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”.
man I just wanna play my lyre and have an adventure and have fun. I don’t wanna argue over politics. I game to get away from all that.
I think it’s ok to want to have some space between stuff.
all art is inherently political but going on an adventure kind of necessarily includes some type of obstacle and/or strife and the second anybody chooses an obstacle it is hella political
The point is that there are politics in your game, like it or not. Whether you make them a central focus is another story entirely.
yep they exist. but I don’t need to solely focus on them. and this entire thread seems to be people saying that fact over and over again. (as you just did as well)
is there some kind of meme I missed or something? I’m confused as to why there’s so much hostility in the comments.
This comment answers it better than I can - https://beehaw.org/post/24101893/5457340
The hostility comes from the fact that for many, their existence is “political”. When people say “I don’t want politics in my game” it often means that they don’t want to consider the existence of those people.