最近,Mark Kern对DND40周年纪念册《Making of DnD》的讨论引发了争议,许多游戏设计师都在他的文章下表达了自己的看法,而直言不讳的Elon Mask评论更是为这个议题增加了热度。
Mark kern是一位游戏设计师,曾经参与《暗黑破坏神 2》、《星际争霸》等游戏的设计制作,在游戏领域享有盛名。而Elon Mask大家都很熟悉,就是那位每天出现在公众视野中的懂王好兄弟。
对前者的否定
这件事情的起因是《Making of DND》一书中出现了对以前作品的否定:
Some language in the first iteraton of DND presents a moral quandary. The documents reproduced in this book include many pages of charts and tablesalongside lists of monsters, spells, and magic items. But that game content also includes a virtual catalog of insensitive and derogatory language, words that are casually hurtful to anyone with a physical or mental disability, or who happens to be old, fat, not conventionally attractive, indigenous, Black, or a woman.
Some people have charitably ascribed this languag to authors working from bad assumptions. In the1970s, historical wargamers in America were predominately white, middle class men: it isn't surprising that they would dub a class of soldiers the "fightingman". But when, in the pages of Greyhawk, the description of the Queen of Chaotic Dragons includes a dig at "Women's Lib," the misogyny is revealed as a conscious choice. It's an unfortunate fact that women seldom appear in original D&D, and when they do, they're usually portrayed disrespectfully. Slavery appears inoriginal D&D not as a human tragedy that devastated generations over centuries, but as a simple commercial transaction.The cultural appropriation of orginal D&D ranges from the bewildering (like naming every 6th-level cleric a "lama") to the staggering: Gods, Demigods, and Heroes (not reprinted in this book) includes game statistics for sacred figures revered by morethan a billion people around the world. Were players expected to fight Vishnu, one of the principal deities of Hinduism, kill him, and loot his "plus 3 sword of demon slaying"?
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