I was in Mayfield back in the day, and the one -ism that was more in the forefront was sexism. women & men couldn't hold specific jobs (no male nurses, no female doctors), that kind of thing. positions of power were held by NPCs (mayor, chief of police, business owners) and PCs couldn't take those positions, only work for them, but PCs could quietly run their own things on the sly for other PCs.
while forced families in a hetero arrangement was baked into the setting, gay characters weren't specifically targeted– if your character regardless of orientation spent the night with someone else, they would wake up in the morning in their assigned home. too often & they would be "droned", aka their personalities forced into that of a happy resident of the setting. there was a lot of psychological torment to milk out of that, again regardless of a character's background.
I am pretty sure period racism wasn't part of the setting, and any player insisting on it would have been seen as a shithead. If you don't want segregation in the game, then...don't set it in a location where segregation occurred in the States. Simple as that. Do your research.
My point here is that if you set up the framework, inform players about the content, add a suitability section to your app, and for god's sake don't write plots revolving around NPCs flipping out about the homos or black people, you should be all right.
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I was in Mayfield back in the day, and the one -ism that was more in the forefront was sexism. women & men couldn't hold specific jobs (no male nurses, no female doctors), that kind of thing. positions of power were held by NPCs (mayor, chief of police, business owners) and PCs couldn't take those positions, only work for them, but PCs could quietly run their own things on the sly for other PCs.
while forced families in a hetero arrangement was baked into the setting, gay characters weren't specifically targeted– if your character regardless of orientation spent the night with someone else, they would wake up in the morning in their assigned home. too often & they would be "droned", aka their personalities forced into that of a happy resident of the setting. there was a lot of psychological torment to milk out of that, again regardless of a character's background.
I am pretty sure period racism wasn't part of the setting, and any player insisting on it would have been seen as a shithead. If you don't want segregation in the game, then...don't set it in a location where segregation occurred in the States. Simple as that. Do your research.
My point here is that if you set up the framework, inform players about the content, add a suitability section to your app, and for god's sake don't write plots revolving around NPCs flipping out about the homos or black people, you should be all right.