I am ready to set it up but I just need some help with Ares Q and A, showing me what does what. I can handle it once it’s live, but might have questions on how to get it to function and the such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYsS_3zdwmA

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But if you really do need or want systemic discrimination to be a part of your game, there’s a relatively easy one that isn’t about anything intrinsic to a person like gender, sexuality, or race are: Poverty.

Certainly, poverty is often exacerbated by the other -isms but it doesn’t have to be. Some people are poor, and other people look down at them for that, so the system fails to support them because of that, etc.

ETA: That said, these kinds of things are for NPCs to do. The opinion of the faceless masses is X, that doesn’t mean a PC needs to conform. A game can have racism or sexism without opening that can of bullshit for PCs to comply with.

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@mietze I haven’t really played on any recent historical games, most of the ones I’ve seen come around are “alt Earth” or “we solved the -isms!” and meh, those aren’t the stories for me. But I’m down to clown on a 1920s game where that stuff is over there <---- and I’m over here ----> where the monsters are.

See, I think those elements are actually really valuable - particularly in a horror game. One of the big questions underlying a lot of horror media is “why do the protagonists have to deal with this?” The answers can differ - PCs can be isolated from the systems that would be theoretically better at dealing with it (oh no, we have no cell phone and our car has broken down outside the murder house), PCs can be especially empowered to interact with it (scholarly folk in CoC, glimmery folk in GH, etc), or…PCs can be vulnerable in a way that means that the ‘normal’ means of seeking help are barred to them.

When you know that the cops are not your friends because you’re someone of color/gay/female/an immigrant, then you have a reason to grab some friends and kick evil’s teeth in, yourself. You have a reason to act to guard your community from the monsters, because you know that no one else will. And those mainstream systems have a reason to overlook monsters (human or otherwise) preying on the community, because those systems don’t value the people who are getting hurt.

It doesn’t have to be a motivation - you can absolutely have horror without systemic discrimination! As always, the comfort level of the staff and players take precedence. But I find those themes interesting and exciting to play, and do not want a historical game that doesn’t at least acknowledge that they’re there - and ideally, uses them to enhance the experience and theme of the game.

dey gonna have to deal with us assholes on the game. otj training