Greentongue, Unfortunately when you are told from birth that you can achieve greatness and you just have to apply yourself (unless you are black, gay or otherwise not white male) then playing something that is the very antithesis of US white male society is not going to go down well. Similarly for other games that came out of the California of the 70's like Runequest. It too has a bigger following in Europe (per head of population) than it does in the US just like EPT (and it's variants).
When you are using your RPG to examine alternative social experiences you can't hope to have everyone fit right in. There are any number of social experiments that fail because the participants don't have an amenable mindset.
This is why D&D with it's murderhobo game style appeals to a US culture that seems (to some) to be fixated on guns and violence. Look how the US treats any expression of differing sexual mores. Repression of the creative side of humanity by some of the appalling attempts to turn the US back to a medieval culture with lack of decent healthcare (how may RPG authors are having to use FundMe campaigns to raise funds for life saving health care). Take a look at how female reproductive health is being undermined by removing funding from clinics catering to that aspect . Look how funding for arts and culture (already much lower than many countries) is being removed to support a xenophobic wall. You might wonder why people who enjoy RPG's are turned off by some games - it's drilled in to them from an early age that being white and male is your ticket to nirvana. Then take a look at how many deaths there are from nut jobs going on the rampage compared to muslim terror attacks. With one real exception (9/11) there are more Americans killed by other Americans than foreigners of any religion.
Originally Posted by chirine ba kal
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