Bartenders are still closed tho. Go be a barista.
I think @Arkandel should fork this whole thread off since it has nothing whatsoever to do with Gray Harbor.
But as long as we're off the rails...
@Lotherio said in Gray Harbor Discussion:
What if someone wanted to do a western ranchers Sheep Wars/Cattlemen/homesteader conflict theme/game But everyone was literally apping in ex 10th Cavalry members to be experts in Native Relations?
You see this in western MUs all the time, to a point. Everybody wants to play something that would have been a minority in that location/time period, be it a Calamity Jane gunfighter, or a freed slave who became a doctor, or a rich dilettante on the run, or a Chinese business owner, or a female Pinkerton detective, or a Buffalo soldier, or an openly LGBTQ person, or whatever. Taken individually, each of these concepts did in fact exist somewhere in the west. But when you put all of them in one cattle town, it really doesn't bear much resemblance to historical fiction any more.
Some might say "who cares? it's a game" and some might say "wtf I thought this was supposed to be a historical game". I seriously do not think that the latter group of folks is being bigoted. I'm a pretty ardent feminist myself, but even I could accept that female infantrymen were not historical in TGG's WWI campaign and that my boundary-pushing female cattlewoman was going to face historically-appropriate prejudice in the 1840's Australian outback on Pioneer. If folks don't want to deal with that, cool, but do say that anybody who wants to explore those historical settings is bigoted? I respectfully disagree.