@The-Sands said in Carnival Row:
@Ghost said in Carnival Row:
People are more keen to roleplay oppressed characters so long as it's not left to the players to be the ones who are plying said racism/oppression.
So are you going to say that no one can play a human? Because those (in general) are the one's plying the racism/oppression. That seems like it would immediately cut out anyone wanting to be in the 'constable' faction (since I can't recall seeing any non-humans among their ranks). Are you saying that all humans PCs must be enlightened and view the non-humans as equal?
I'm not saying that at all. 1) It's not my game and 2) I'm not making the decisions on this one.
It was in response to a few statements about how the problem would be fixed by focusing all of the racism/classism onto NPCs controlled by staff, which are still often controlled by people who play PCs, so it gets blurry there.
My own personal views are that if the setting includes racism and racist characters against "fae" characters, then people should be allowed to make them and have everything dealt with and handled ICly, up to and including PVP dice-rolled curbstompings of racist assholes...because that's what happens on the show.
A player should be able to play "racist constable #2" and oocly be "oh man, this is challenging to write! I love you guys!" but still in character be like: "Fuck you and your critch cunny. If it wouldn't anger me mates that dabble in critch-c*nt I'd beat you with this club." and then later: "STOOOP, you can't do this to me! I'm an officer of the laaaaaa-CRACK-DEAD!"
But that's just me.