Gloomhaven to change to address cultural bias
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I was planning on buying gloomhaven for a long time but apparently Frosthaven (the game) needs to address the colonialism and how races enforce harmful stereotypes.
This people have leftism rotting their brains. And they made the statement after they gathered 12mil on kick starter.
Why are stereotypes bad? Stereotypes, good and bad ones, is what give races an identity, dwarfs are suppose to be pigheaded and stoic and elves gentler and snobbish. Stereotype characters are incredibly useful to try to present a culture of people.
Let me get a gay flamboyant arab to represent United Emirates? Or a black muslim to represent Japan? I assume there must be a black muslim in Japan but that would make for a horrible way to represent Japan.
Sorry for the rant, I just can't take this bullshit in RPGs that make things worse for everyone in order to address an issue that exists only in their heads.
They claim to "love diversity", but they want everything to be the same. One planet, one species, one culture, one government. LITERALLY.
Well, yeah. They celebrate a potential future when white people don't exist because everyone is the color of Starbucks coffee.