Just Make Slavers The Bad Guys
As I'm writing this, there are two main Hullabaloos I'm aware of in the RPG scene. One concerns the upcoming 5.5 release of Dark Sun, and one Luke Stratton's Pirate Borg continuing to trip on the same rake over and over . Now, lots of thinkpieces have been written about both, and I promise I'm not jumping into that again, but something did strike me about each: In an interview with TTRPGinsider , Greg Billsland talked about how the grit and grimness of Athas would be present, but without slavery. " You don't have to have slavery in a setting if in order for it to be oppressive...There are other forms of oppression out there.” In the opening matter of Pirate Borg, it says the following: "Pirate Borg is a game about grog-swilling pirates, undead galleons, arcane treasures found in ancient temples, and high seas adventure. It's not a game about slavery, sexual violence, genocide, or any of the other abhorrent real parts of our history. Please ...
