Having a political slant or a religious slant or a philosophical slant to a RPG is perfectly acceptable. Some players are going to be into it, some aren't. That's the way it goes with any RPG.
The only time I have made a RPG with a 'message' is my one page RPG called Treason Season. It is a dark twist on the 'post-9/11' political atmosphere of recent years taken to their extreme. For the most part, however, I kind of 'hid' the political message in Treason Season RPG. It's there, but it's not painfully obvious as it might be if I were really hellbent on mixing in a political message with a RPG. I'm not, though... I prefer the RPG to be the main point of itself, not some political message. You can always combine the two, but I think you will have a better RPG if you let the game be the main point of the RPG and the message be secondary. If anything, the message should be used as part of a clever setting or game world. If a RPG's only real purpose is to be a glorified political pamphlet, I sincerely doubt it will end up being all that fun to play.
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Having a political slant or a religious slant or a philosophical slant to a RPG is perfectly acceptable. Some players are going to be into it, some aren't. That's the way it goes with any RPG.
The only time I have made a RPG with a 'message' is my one page RPG called Treason Season. It is a dark twist on the 'post-9/11' political atmosphere of recent years taken to their extreme. For the most part, however, I kind of 'hid' the political message in Treason Season RPG. It's there, but it's not painfully obvious as it might be if I were really hellbent on mixing in a political message with a RPG. I'm not, though... I prefer the RPG to be the main point of itself, not some political message. You can always combine the two, but I think you will have a better RPG if you let the game be the main point of the RPG and the message be secondary. If anything, the message should be used as part of a clever setting or game world. If a RPG's only real purpose is to be a glorified political pamphlet, I sincerely doubt it will end up being all that fun to play.
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