Jürgen Hubert on Nostr: I have to be honest, I have soured on the #Space1889 #ttrpg - the default assumption ...
I have to be honest, I have soured on the #Space1889 #ttrpg - the default assumption for campaigns seems to be that the player characters all align with some form of colonialist empire. Which gets more loathsome the more I learn about the history of real world colonialism.
Now, a campaign focusing on the heroic efforts of overthrowing the colonialist yoke might be interesting. But even then, the focus should be on the efforts of the indigenous population instead of "Mighty Whitey" human allies who fight for them because the natives are too incompetent to fight for their own freedoms.
(And, of course, similar problems are common in the #Steampunk genre as a whole...)
Now, a campaign focusing on the heroic efforts of overthrowing the colonialist yoke might be interesting. But even then, the focus should be on the efforts of the indigenous population instead of "Mighty Whitey" human allies who fight for them because the natives are too incompetent to fight for their own freedoms.
(And, of course, similar problems are common in the #Steampunk genre as a whole...)