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Highly doubt. The Palestinian allegory to a Zionist would be cartoonist caricatures of rape and violence while the Isn'treal allegory would have been a pure place of light and peace.
The issue is that there is no utopia. If you make one, it instantly looks like a cover. "A place of pure light and peace" is hiding something. Even if the DM intended for it to be perfect, the players could certainly see it as a threat. Unless the DM breaks the fourth wall and explicitly tells them it's real, there's no way for the players to know that.
Then, when that place that has tons of resources is fighting some poor faction next door, it looks pretty damning. The same issue as above happens if you portray them as pure evil. There's no way they're actually that evil, and it must be propaganda.
This all happens even more if your players have been trained to spot these things because this is how the real world works.
From OOP:
So apparently he let them design the general layout, which had the authoritarian government and the rebels fighting them, and thought the ‘cop city’ they’d made sounded awesome and heroic and was totally the super-cool state of Israel, and the rebels were those dastardly Palestinians, and ran the campaign that way.
Don’t do religion, kids.
D.A.R.E. to say no to religion!
We have a recovery group that meets on Saturday mornings and Tuesday evenings at the bowling ally, you're welcome to join. It's called "Formerly Religious Anonymous," but if you want to speak at meetings, which you're strongly encouraged to do, then you're required to state your name, and if you don't follow the correct forms then we'll shun you. But it's not a cult, I swear.
Oh and you have to be entirely self-debasing if you want us to respect you. Just watch what others do and you'll catch the drift. You'll see what I mean. It's not a religion though!
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/SThat guy haven't watch star wars it seems.
Just one
Alright that makes sense and makes it comedy. I won't edit mt previous comment but I am doing a sicko yes rn
I think if that happened to me every marble in my brain would have dropped out too lol
Imagine not reading the room at all as a DM, or Idk, I have no idea how this happens. Online game maybe? I only play with friends so.
Yeah, it was an online group. Everyone immediately quit lol
But seriously, forget real-world politics for a sec. How often in tabletop RPG history has the empire/police state/whathaveyou ever been the good guys and the rebels the bad? Had that DM never played a game before?
We didn't get to the end, but I played in a "Dragon Queen" campaign where we were protecting the kingdom from evil dragon-worshipping cultists.
When you're dealing with a setting that is that clear-cut and obvious, you tend to have a situation where the place of light and peace is rotten at the core and has very effective propaganda, while the cartoonish violent rapists are often downtrodden victims whose suffering is made invisible.
But the Zionist wouldn't put that in there. They dont see that. "Theres no propaganda in America". Same shit. It'd be like playing one of those shitty American war porn films following Private Badass of The Good Guys.
There's this thing in DND where there's a whole table of people and when the DM says 'you go into a tavern and see a mysterious stranger in a dark cloak half lit with moonlight lighting up a pipe you catch a small glimpse of his rugged face, the other patrons look uneasy at his presence... also that's a gnome called Gifgledork picking his nose at the bar' the party will almost always go 'we ignore The Dark Ranger of Mystery, and spend all night buying drinks for our new best friend Gifgledork. If he set up a 'The Good Guys' power structure the players could have all easily decided said good guys were secretly evil and opposed them at every turn. I had a party once INSIST on eating the two birds in a glade I put there as guides to help them get through the trials of the area for plot reasons. they killed and ate the guardian forest birds... it was incredibly upsetting to decide that eating ancient forest guardians probably gave them cool powers. but playing the game is about playing the game and letting your party have fun is more important than playing YOUR game. and when you add in stuff you're excited about, sometimes the party says fuck that and intentionally sets your bread crumbs on fire and walks into the forest with no hints and finds a witch that makes wooden coins that are bewitched to look like real money. for no reason at all. Is really dumb to go at it with your personal feelings all deeply attached to every plot point.
Precisely. It's why I like Pathfinder so much. The only good guys are the Firebrands, the Bellflower Network, and other liberatory NGOs that are fighting against government. Even the "good guy" nation of Andoran has corruption and powerful conglomerates that influence the government
Sounds like that would be a pretty bad dungeon master though.
I can hear the "no, you can't have that. It was promised to the people of the light 3000 years ago. Just take the quest reward I made for you"