/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>722766
Direct real world politics really shouldn't be a part of fantasy, nor DnD by extension. You could explore broader themes that intersect with socialist and Marxist politics, such as poverty, equality, what it means to be a good person in a world that seems to have suffering ingrained into its very mechanisms.

But I think that having workers councils and actual socialist ideology is a bit much. It's hard to feel like you've been swept away to dark lands beneath strange moons if you have what is very obvious real world industrial/post-industrial politics in it.

>>722766
>Is DnD socialist?
No. Its a class based fantasy role playing game.

>>722766
I don't think fantasy roleplay can be capitalist because then it basically ruins the possibility to be anything

>>722770
>It's hard to feel like you've been swept away to dark lands beneath strange moons if you have what is very obvious real world industrial/post-industrial politics in it.
Depends on the fantasy

>>722771
This
Classless systems like Call of Cthulhu/BRP, however, are socialist

>>722770
dumbass u get to literally experiment and make your own world why wouldnt u put politics in it

>>723014
yeah but then retards here will say your world is terrible and poop if you make the politics more dystopian than MLP worldbuilding

>>723019
Equestria is a theocratic ethnostate therefore it is already bad
Teletubbies is the only communist setting

Someone's politics and wolrdviews still usually seeps into their worldbuilding
this isn't good or bad, just is

>>722771
RPG classes aren't the same as economic classes.

>>722766
it depends
if you play it as a creative group writing activity, then it is bourgeois
if you play it as a spreadsheet min-maxing exercise, then it is socialist
the more numbers-focused and strict the rules get, the more socialist it is. when it becomes rigid enough that you can codify the gameplay into a computer to give a standardized experience to an unlimited number of players, it becomes communism

>>723096
Never got into RPGs, but I am interested in fantasy. Could you elaborate on their differences to a fellow comrade? Thanks.

>>723179
I'm a nogames poser but FATAL is filled with rape and edge and makes you roll for anal circumference, while GURPS is a hyper autistic engine with rules and supplements for almost fucking everything, so he's accurate

No, it is incredibly idealist. If you want to play a Marxist game, play Cyberpunk 2020.

I'm running a D&D module and it's very liberal. The player characters are rewarded for being cops. The safehub town is Ancapistan, ruled by merchants and without a local militia. The campaign's goal is to protect a petite bourgeois entrepreneur by defending what he's claimed to be his private property. Most of the villains are racially coded to be goblins, bugbears, orcs, and drows. Your grand reward at the end of the campaign is a share of the NPC's profits.

>>723424
>Most of the villains are racially coded as fantasy monsters
Oh wow.