I haven’t played a role-playing game in decades. I enjoyed them, but…no time, and as you all know, I have no friends and am universally despised, so no one to play them with. And now I have another reason to not play at least one of them: it sucks. There’s a new RPG out called Myfarog, which looks unplayable, and is written by a proud racist who sees RPGs as a rehearsal for the coming collapse of Western Civilization. At least it gets away from the tired old stereotype of evil Orcs, and instead has you facing hordes of evil Jews.
It’s strange how half the internet seems to be complaining about “political correctness”, yet there doesn’t seem to be any significant suppression of some of the foulest crap, from Myfarog to Donald Trump, anywhere. In fact, it’s like a golden age of shit everywhere!
Bit late to the party, aren’t they? RaHoWa and F.A.T.A.L. were being racist RPG systems with terrible rules a decade ago.
I think HYBRID was also racist, although it’s very hard to tell for certain anything concrete about the rules for HYBRID.
Notably, these three games are widely regarded as contenders for the title of Worst RPG ever.
I suspect this will soon be declared So Bad It’s Horrible, just like the racist, poorly-made RPGs that came before it.
If you want something more to your (our) liking, play Final Fantasy X – it’s a beautiful game, especially in the new HD version and its story has strong religious and atheistic themes.
HYBRID was very racist, though it’s difficult to tell, since it’s not so much a game as a series of disconnected numerical ravings.
Funny, I was just in a discussion last week about the “plague of political correctness that’s destroying everything” and I brought up that very point.
Jake it has to be FATAL, Racial and HYBRID won’t get even close in terms of racism, misogynism (plus half a dozen other -isms) and that is before you get to the rules.
Note if you ever get a dare by your PnP friends to read it shoot them* the judge (or in the U.S.A. the jury) will let you of with a self defense claim it’s that bad.
*I suggest a NERF gun or if you feel really vicious the NERF rhino turret.
F.A.T.A.L. was racist? I’d never heard that. I knew it was misogynistic, Byzantine, badly constructed, sexually violent, and so poorly balanced that your character could literally die during character creation…but I had no idea it was racist too.
Seriously, though, racist RPGs are nothing new, and neither are terrible ones.
@ Matrim
There are armors of “Nigrous Nincompoopery”, “Gookums” or “Jewy Jewbacca”that turn the wearer into racial stereotypes.
Everything I’ve ever heard about FATAL has got me convinced that it will remain as the worst RPG ever simply due to it not being possible to exceed it in sheer fail without going into parody.
@Matrim(#7): It is casually racist, more stereotypes then the white power built in racism that Myfarog (from the brief review) has. Which probably beats anything out there in the racism department.
Oh and speaking of racism. Guess the PnP RPG, Black skinned & evil.
Sorry, FATAL beats all of them hands down.
Like, really, trust everyone who says so, you do NOT want to read that thing.
Regarding the OP, I have come to appreciate RPGs who are very light on rules and don’t expect me to calculate square roots every time my character wants to hurt something.
The obsession on rules is something I had at 16 when my urge to escape reality was overwhelming, I wonder if the game author managed past that stage at all.
I’m guessing that you’re talking about the Drow. In their case, they seem to be the result of Gary Gygax borrowing a name from Scottish mythology, giving them a physical description from Norse mythology, and then ignoring that the mythical beings were also known as dwarfs, which he’d already borrowed via Tolkien.
I suspect Gygax’s line of thought was more likely “I need evil critters to populate the Underdark; what subterranean beings can I borrow from mythology?” rather than “They’re black, and therefore evil”, but he still decided against not making them pure Team Evil (a certain purple-eyed Drow notwithstanding), or just realizing the potential implications and omitting them.
This thread reminds me…Stormfront tried to make a racist version of D&D a while back, and made fantasy races based on different ethnicities. Not only is it hilariously broken, but they ended up making the Aryan race the WEAKEST of the races.
@ Matrim
Holy shit was that thing racist!
That’s slightly more racist than David Duke at a banjo festival racist.
Ew, very ew.
Then again, it’s probably a lateral move for a game that contains a table to randomly determine the circumference of an infant’s anus.
Awww come ON: if you want to make an antisemitic RPG, Jews should at least be high-tier lich warlocks controlling hordes of SJWs.