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Old 10-10-2012, 12:35 PM   #13
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Re: Why Do So Many Women Play Threshold RPG?

Opinions differ on this one. On one hand, for many (most?) players, a mud is only fun if they can accomplish whatever they want to put their effort toward doing, which means that a game world is only "fun" if it's fairly egalitarian, where any race and gender can get anywhere with enough time and effort, and where nobody's going to give you a hard time for trying. On the other hand, for others, a mud is only fun if the game world is extremely different from the real world, and one way many muds accomplish this is by having a world not polluted by modern ideals of racial and gender equality, where some characters are just hated and have a harder time because of the type of character they are. In some roleplay-focused muds, it's not about getting anywhere or accomplishing anything with your character. You're just part of a shared story and are supposed to fill the role you're filling as well as you can, even if that means playing a character that doesn't win, accomplish anything, or get anywhere.

I question why a guy in the sci-fi future, hundreds of years from now, living on a space station, who's never experienced racism, and whose great great grandparents never experienced racism, would still be sore about racism in the 1960s.
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