Monday 4 April 2016

High Frontier RPG temporarily on hold

I'm temporarily removed all access to the High Frontier RPG Google doc I've been working in, in direct response to http://latining.tumblr.com/post/141567276944/tabletop-gaming-has-a-white-male-terrorism-problem

The current design includes rules for a number of difficult topics which I think the RPG is unavoidably going to raise. I was hoping the RPG community would be mature enough to handle these appropriately, but based on the experiences of the writer of the referenced article, I no longer think that is the case and instead any attempts I make to reify the types of topics that naturally arise when a 4 person crew is sent on a 10 year mission without any other human contact will have a negative outcome.

This article has so badly shaken me, I'm now second guessing the efforts I'm making to put a little more detail in classic TV tropes such as a multi-ethnic crew.

To people who've been waiting to play test this, I would like to apologize. I'm going to have a long think about whether or not I want to continue any efforts with this design and then how to approach or censor the topics I want to handle.