“I thought people would tune it out and dismiss racial hatred as an explanation for any of the game’s frictions.”
Yeah, I tuned it out so fully that I didn’t even have a chance to dismiss it, just never occurred to me. I figured the townspeople were just selling junk goods to foreigners! I recently moved to a new country - so that narrative feels on point for me (although luckily am not having that experience).
I also figured out the joke after my first run - the bad spear and healing items, and refusal to stay at the inn (which now that I’ve read your post comes out in a different light!)
I’m getting inspired by trying your sketches. I grabbed both rm2k and wolf editor and plan to try to make some small basic sketches myself.
I haven’t used either tool yet, so it’ll take a while to
- understand the base systems at play
- figure out how best to subvert them to my own mechanical preferences
But! I think i will go faster to making sketches this way than building something myself. My goal is to make a handful of sketches and re-evaluate what tooling i want to use going forward. We’ll see…