While they are still up, go to AlterNet.org and check out the RPG stories on Sept 9 and 10 (and probably longer). It started with a specific complaint about a tabletop RPG with a slavery setting. This quickly escalated into apples vs. oranges evidence from some classic LARP non-game experiments.
Several of us have dealt with the institution of slavery in our games, both as an accepted fact of the culture under consideration and as an evil to be fought along with more physical monsters. It may well be the battleground on which we are attacked next.
With the resurgence of attacks (slight at present) on RPG, This needs to be watched and preparations made to answer if our old adversaries return. Pulling may be dead, but Radecki is only in apparent retirement, and no status on many of the others of that period. Those who refuse to study history…
Paul
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