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Space 1889 ideas

Started by RPGPundit, December 22, 2010, 02:59:19 PM

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Quote from: Grymbok;428235Yeah, I like the parallels, but for me it's just about finding the balance between "Mars is like India" and "Mars is just India with the names changed to players can feel better about shooting the natives". For whatever reason my previous attempt at running the game veered a bit close to the latter (the fact that one of my players was openly racist probably didn't help here).

I think that what's interesting is that you have Mars AND India in Space:1889, both colonized; and it would seem that the onus would then be to make them different from one another.  I know that a lot of campaigns just basically ignore earth, but I think that's a kind of mistake.

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