Re: [HOE] Good, Evil, And The American Way

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

 >My Challenge to you, Mr McCallum, is to bring more internationalism to HoE.
 >But right now, and for a while, it's formed based on the legends of American
 >West and American ideals.  And sadly, these legends DO ignore the rest of 
the
 >world as insignificant.

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Um. . .

Okay.  I grant you that Hell On Earth, the Wasted West, has a somewhat 
pro-American West  stance.  At least, that's the setting where most of the 
source material has been aimed at.
After all.  That happens to be where the PC's ARE.

But.

Would you also argue that the Pendragon RPG has a pro-England slant?
Ars Magica's pro-European slant.
Feng Shui's pro-Hong Kong slant.
Sengoku's pro-Japan slant.

What of Mad Max movies' pro-Australian slant?
Or how about all the other post apocolypse movies who say that 
"Civilization was.  It blew itself up and is no more.  This is the 
wasteland we live in." and completely ignores "international politics".

I don't think that anyone is denying that there is an incredible wealth of 
source material out there - Druids, Dreamtime, Mummies, Baba Yaga, 
Firewalkers, Zen mystics, Dowistic sorceries, etc. etc.

But let's let PEG finish rounding out the setting they started with.


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