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Israel-palestine allegory gone wrong (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

D&D empowers a small group of people to individually gain power and eventually exert outsized influence on intra- and international politics, even entreating with godlike entities.

D&D is just a power-fantasy. Where that fantasy leans (politically/ideologically) is just the GM's setting.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (3 children)

    Power fantasy is one of the more common modes of a D&D game, but it's not the only one nor does the game structurally force it.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    You don't believe that leveling up and increasing your attributes, core components of the game, are inherently reflectively of power fantasy?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    That's a good point. I guess in a sense that means the game does structurally promote power fantasy play, but I still don't think it lends itself exclusively to that kind of play.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    No, it doesn't exclude play not centered on its power fantasies.

    But its structure (and the structure of the ubiquitous 'rags to riches'-style of heroes' story) does support it.

    Remember this subthread is a response to someone expressing surprise that D&D isn't solely the domain of [liberal/leftist] nerds.

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