Quote Originally Posted by hroşila View Post
That "subtler" way was that the protagonists never realized there was an issue at all, but did you seriously expect them to never confront it? To me it was always obvious that they'd hear about Redcloak's motivations eventually, and that they'd agree he has a point. If this makes you think too much of current events, that's not on the author, that's on the instigators of those recurrent events.
I think, way back in 04 or something, it was more like how PCs treat Monster Races, as well, monsters, not people. A gaming trope criticism. Sometime down the road, 2011 or so, maybe as soon as 2007, thst changed more to a basically a reskin of modern political issues. (because the real life political issues have no 'monster' elements, it's not very satisfying allegory for either side of the debate in my opinion)