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Sexual orientation is likely not important in the context of this thread. But the broad spectrum of characters of color and different ethnicity within the Arkham Files are for sure.
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For example, in Arkahm Horror 2nd Edition you could visit a gipsy camp featuring divinators who cast evil eye, thieves and all sorts of extremely styereotypical depictions. It's one of the most overtly racist stuff I've seen in games and it was done away with with the next edition. But they did so, not by taking away the stereotypes, but by taking out the whole ethnicity.
I think that, if your game has been bigoted against the Roma in the past, you should try to simply have a character or two of that ethnicity in non-stereotypical roles. I know it won't get you Twitter kudos, but I think it's just fair.
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hotseatgames wrote: I don’t give a shit about the time period and how that applies to reality. If Father Dagon can swim around the boat, then a Black person can be the richest passenger on board.
A bazillion times this.
Seriously, I do not ever want to read another comment rationalizing T.R.A.S.H. decisions in board game design and illustration as "historical accuracy."
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What remains is the revisionist history that excludes them from consideration for a box cover on a board game . . . because . . . it's uncomfortable for white people maybe? I don't know. Or maybe it's just a lack of imagination. The history we've been taught is that all black people were poor until very recently.
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In a game or in a fictive space I don’t fucking care if Julius Caesar is a gay black man and Jesse James is transgender. I don’t give a shit about historical accuracy or simulation in games AT ALL and in fact I think that kind of regressive thinking is another reason why games evolved jnto a white boy pastime rather than earning a wider audience until recently.
Historical accuracy is for old white men that still think the Confederate flag isn’t racist or that we need to preserve monuments bEcAUSE hIsToRy. Fuck ‘em.
Yeah, it’s great that FFG populated Arkham Files with a diverse cast but it’s empty, performative tokenism until the baked-in racism of Lovecraft settings is addressed...which they will never do.
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And yet those Bavarians are deemed "history" and what flows from it is a presentation that is dead wrong with the words "historical accuracy" printed across the front of it. The history has been pre-cleaned to make it presentable to a particular audience. When in doubt, give credit to the favored caste.
I'm not saying this is easy, and I'll give credit to FFG for the ship's captain, a Pacific Islander woman with a pretty masculine cut to her. But I think they went after the extreme instead of focusing on 30% representation of 30% cases. That's important too.
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