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Jun. 24th, 2009 12:19 amI want Queer roleplaying - and I don't know how to get it.
I'm getting back into roleplaying games and storygames, but I've changed sex and started paying attention to the society that I live in. And this is causing some alienation.
Like other media, most roleplaying games, especially the big brands, tacitly endorse status quo ways of thinking and problem-solving. There might be spaceships or dragons, but these are often not more than mad libs for an underlying adventure story that's a cross between the (feudal) heroic narrative and a kind of "character building" that resembles a (socially oblivous) business growth strategy - there's an evil enemy, and you plan and whack it and take it's stuff, and are honoured far and wide, and next time, you're that much stronger.
It's a shame for a medium that champions imagination.
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I'm getting back into roleplaying games and storygames, but I've changed sex and started paying attention to the society that I live in. And this is causing some alienation.
Like other media, most roleplaying games, especially the big brands, tacitly endorse status quo ways of thinking and problem-solving. There might be spaceships or dragons, but these are often not more than mad libs for an underlying adventure story that's a cross between the (feudal) heroic narrative and a kind of "character building" that resembles a (socially oblivous) business growth strategy - there's an evil enemy, and you plan and whack it and take it's stuff, and are honoured far and wide, and next time, you're that much stronger.
It's a shame for a medium that champions imagination.
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Characters:
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