New Horizons

[thebitterguy]

Man, it's odd, looking at the reaction to something as simple as an RPG supplement.

Okay, not simple. This isn 't quite the second coming of Charnel Houses of Europe, but apparently if you stick a little cheese flag into pulp going "man, the 20s were full of the douchebaggery", you'll get some really retarded responses (although he seems to be proving the general theme of the book). I guess we can see why his girlfriend comes with a patch kit.

BR has a slightly less nutbar examination of the concept at his blog.

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Hm. Just a couple of quotes from your post:

What’s wrong with the players deciding for themselves they want to play a female private detective, or an Asian two-fisted hero, rather than having rules to spell this explicitly out?

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To use a crude analogy, re-naming “Cowboys & Indians” to “Cowgirls & Native Americans” [...] may have some unwanted side-effects, such as driving away those persons who simply want to play a conventional Western game.

I'm a little thrown; the first quote seems to suggest that players shouldn't have any problems reworking the genders or ethnic groups presented in the setting. The second suggests that they should be expected to not bother and will avoid a game which might require them to do so.

Can you reconcile those two for me? I'm honestly curious.