The RPG Room: Chasing Equality




G*M*S Magazine Podcast  Channel show

Summary: <br> For the last few years the discussion on equality in games, both in and out <br> of the fantasies, have been raging with arguments being made on both camps that <br> make you wonder sometimes if we have learned anything in the last two hundred <br> years.<br> <br> Some of us do want to see more diversity in games, both in the creative <br> environment – that is, the people who create the games – and in the created <br> environment, inside the games themselves.<br> <br> Some other people consider that inclusion of diversity and the added richness <br> it provides a burden on their creative juices. Which is bullshit.<br> <br> However there is an aspect of all this inclusion that makes people nervous <br> because on the one hand they fee they *must* include minorities and, on the <br> other hand, if they make a mistake in the representation, they will be scorned <br> mercilessly by members of those minorities.<br> <br> Is there a balance to be striken here? Do we truly need equality in <br> games?<br> <br> <a href="http://postworldgames.com/">Jim Pinto</a> and I <br> discuss this at length.<br> <br> Lots of cursing!<br>