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Stalinists don't seem interested in collecting Soviet miniature armies, the aesthetic arguably isn't as appealing as the Nazi aesthetic (the latter of which has appeared everywhere from here to Star Wars), and we haven't spent decades subtly glorifying the Red Army like we have the Wehrmacht. Stalinism is an intellectually-bankrupt hipster political stance on the Internet, not so much a fashion choice.
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Any faction that uses banks and likes money a lot is a Jewish stereotype, got it.
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Mar 11, 2015 10:21
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Mormon Star Wars posted:in mystara the shadow elves are reclusive monotheists who wandered a desert for 40x years and reached a promised land where their god gave them 14 commandments on stone tablets. they are also ethnic outsiders who hide their ethnicity in order to secretly gain control of many world governments and control the "Subhuman" races, using them as a tool to weaken human / dwarf / elf aka white culture. See, now we're going places.
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Mar 12, 2015 06:53
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Part of the problem is that orcs and trolls are fantasy bad guys so everything becomes an extension of the D&D race war setting even when it's mixed in with a riff on real-world politics and scifi.
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Mar 12, 2015 19:37
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Well it started as "orcs and related creatures are elementally evil monsters made with evil magic/that spring in adult form out of primordial evil muck to plague the world." Then this was injected with "Well why don't we give them some kind of ecology as a thought exercise/way for players and GMs to get more mileage out of this super-common trope." Then this morphed into "Well now that these are developed in some way, what if I want to play as one and likely play it as nuanced?" Ranging from dark elf with a heart of gold to "this is evil because" to "this is evil but goes far enough off the scatterplot that it starts to come back in at adorable." This is then spliced in with "What if we ported fantasy tropes into a modernized dystopia and vice versa?" So you get a race whose dual origins are "creature that you should kill on sight to make the world a better place" mixed in with racial politics as understood by nerds, whose comprehension of racial politics is not their first skill. "Orcs are downtrodden, so that's an analogy for [minority], right?" So you get a creature that's genetically/magically strong, evil, stupid, and obsessed with violence standing in for minorities. Meanwhile Shadowrun the Actual Game as Played tends to be Tolkien: Impossible and a lot of the splats are fictionalized black market catalogs. The impression I have always gotten is that it's cyberpunk with trolls. D&D eventually tends to be about how your character is going to directly or indirectly take control of the setting, so the politics become a lot more explicit in play.
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Mar 12, 2015 21:48
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FFG still makes sure everyone knows that Slaanesh is the god of hentai in addition to all that other stuff no one really seems to care about, like perfection or any other form of hedonism.
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