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The Dark Eye will be available in English 2016

Started by Schattenwanderer, July 30, 2015, 07:43:31 AM

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Settembrini

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August 14, 2015, 12:02:17 PM
That is mildly put.
If there can\'t be a TPK against the will of the players it\'s not an RPG.- Pierce Inverarity

crkrueger

#106
August 14, 2015, 03:15:49 PM
Quote from: igor;847988Stop moving the goalposts. We were talking about homosexuals. Those are a lot closer to being 3 in a 100 NPC's, than 3 in 10.000. So they are bound to show up occasionally, which is what happens in DSA.

No, we're talking about the concept of erasure, that by not addressing the existence of a minority you are contributing to the repression of that minority.

When you said "Acknowledging the standard, but not acknowledging that exceptions exist, leads to invisibility, invisibility leads to 2nd class citizenship status and repression.", that's erasure, which is one of the biggest piles of horseshit the Identity Zealots try to push these days.

DSA wants to include it, good for them.  However, if they simply didn't go into sexual orientations/preferences or anything else of their NPCs and let the GMs decide, they wouldn't be guilty of anything.
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Settembrini

#107
August 14, 2015, 05:53:26 PM
Thanks! Now I know there is a name for that concept.
If there can\'t be a TPK against the will of the players it\'s not an RPG.- Pierce Inverarity

igor

#108
August 14, 2015, 09:29:38 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;848848No, we're talking about the concept of erasure, that by not addressing the existence of a minority you are contributing to the repression of that minority.


No, we are talking about the fallout of post number 57 of this thread, which I wrote and Butcher's response to it. It is about the deliberate politicization of homosexuality in D&D throughout the years and that DSA at least does not suffer from that.

By the way, the success of the Gay Rights Movement in the US is based around a strategy of being visible.
Erasure isn't horseshit, it has been a valuable concept for both political activists and the cultural anthropologists that study them.
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