This is a site for discussing roleplaying games. Have fun doing so, but there is one major rule: do not discuss political issues that aren't directly and uniquely related to the subject of the thread and about gaming. While this site is dedicated to free speech, the following will not be tolerated: devolving a thread into unrelated political discussion, sockpuppeting (using multiple and/or bogus accounts), disrupting topics without contributing to them, and posting images that could get someone fired in the workplace (an external link is OK, but clearly mark it as Not Safe For Work, or NSFW). If you receive a warning, please take it seriously and either move on to another topic or steer the discussion back to its original RPG-related theme.

Author Topic: “Mother Lands is a tabletop role-playing game free of slavery and colonialism”  (Read 4105 times)

horsesoldier

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • h
  • Posts: 206
I need to get a pen name and think of a really woke RPG.

Spinachcat

  • Toxic SocioCat
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • S
  • Posts: 14805
I'm really looking forward to never reading this....

Considering the history of woke Kickstarters magically collecting cash and never delivering their promised products...your comment might be the reality for all the backers.

crkrueger

  • Hulk in the Vineyard
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12559
Isn’t this game supposed to be 1500 years after the 1300’s Mali got transported to the planet?  So they’re living in the 2800’s.

What the historical Mali’s did or didn’t do probably wouldn’t even be in their history.
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery's thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans

Slipshot762

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • S
  • Posts: 480
This is someone's masturbatory fetish I'm sure of it; because it reminds me of a rifts game i played in ran by a kid named harry where we got transported to another dimension as goldfish like creatures (cool at first) but lost a fight with sea horse like creatures and endured sea horse fish rape before being fed to he who lurks above the waters, which was this whole vore thing that harry was into I later learned. I did not manage to make it out and was crushed by the great air dwellers sphincter contractions as i hurled like a turd torpedoe toward freedom.

I don't know why but this reminds me of that. Someone is wanking to this shit.

Stephen Tannhauser

  • Curmudgeonly Refugee
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • S
  • Posts: 1205
Isn’t this game supposed to be 1500 years after the 1300’s Mali got transported to the planet?  So they’re living in the 2800’s.

What the historical Mali’s did or didn’t do probably wouldn’t even be in their history.

Not necessarily. Today's Islam is still recognizably the same faith Mohammed al-Quraysh laid down in the seventh century, which is unsurprising as the Qu'ran (identified as the final and most perfect revelation) explicitly forbids alterations or additions to its own text.

It's certainly easy enough to speculate that new hadiths (schools of jurisprudence and legal interpretation) could and would arise, or even entirely new sub-traditions like the Sufis. But any suggestion that radically reinvented the faith to the degree this setting sounds like it wants would be just as much an "erasure" as the fantasy series written a while ago (I've unfortunately forgotten the title and author) which assumed the absence of the North American indigenous peoples in its plotline.
Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain

STR 8 DEX 10 CON 10 INT 11 WIS 6 CHA 3

Zelen

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 861
I need to get a pen name and think of a really woke RPG.

Absolutely.

I've come to the realization that Mother Lands' refusal to actually think about how to develop a system or rulebook is actually a good move for them. It's 2021, time to move forward past old-fashioned regressive ideals of limiting characters just by the race or class assigned at character creation. Moreover, the idea of "higher" and "lower" numbers on the dice emphasizes the systemic oppression inherent to rules systems and the marginalization of differently-abled polyhedrals.

In 2021 if I see another cheeto-stained cishet neckbeard try to deadroll me by claiming that my dice roll was WELL ACKSHUALLY a natural 1 after I explicitly told them I had IDENTIFIED the roll as a natural 20 I am going to SCREAM!