The more I think about it, the more I think people shouldn't try to replicate real-world settings in #ttrpg. It's just an absolute minefield trying to create something that is a frivolity that includes our world's incredibly ugly history. 1/?

Almost nothing I see out there has a depth that even comes close to being respectful except tightly focused settings made by members of the communities highlighted in that setting. The bastardization of religion and glancing over colonialism and genocide is the standard. 2/?

I'm a nobody, so nobody is going to be won over by this thread, but I would really like to see people's imagination go to more fantastic settings, less coding, less reliant on tropes, less reproduction of racist 20th-century pulp. "Show me something new" is a moral issue. 3/?

I don't always succeed at it myself, but I never want to draw directly from this blood-soaked world dominated by pale-skinned maniacs. If we have the full palette of human expression to draw from, why not make it new, interesting, and safe? End