Oh, and because I’m just machine gun posting now, both of the above issues combine with US’s explicit insistence on facing race to give me more than a few concerns about othering.

After all, the genre does not have a good history of it. And even when it’s about metaphorical people that can still go bad wrong really fast.

I’ll use an example from a game I played in, where after character gen I was moved to say, “did we just seriously make the only black PC a Wolf banger, and the East Asian PC a wizard who is good at math?”

There was facepalm all around.