Does anybody else get unreasonably annoyed at the vast majority of rpg games that are feudal societys on a surface level but are actually capitalist societys under a thin vineer. I was trying to play pillars of eternity but became incredibly annoyed at the frist quest of the game revolving around a mill which is in a lord's domain but is privately owned and operated and which the townsfolk sell their grain to in exchange for currency (to later buy back with the same currency). I had to put the game down right there.

I think a lot of the time it's an outgrowth from developers feeling the need to have a commonly circulated currency. Although the answer in my opinion isn't to faithfully recreate feudalism but to create a unique social formation for the conditions of the world, I've always loved the eberron campaign setting for that reason.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Ironically, the Telvanni in Morrowinds are openly based on ancaps and are the most feudalist of any group in eldar scrolls in terms of structure.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The Telvanni do follow the NAP. If you make too much of a nuisance of yourself a wizard will fly along and blow you up. Don't do anything that will annoy the wizards. There are no other laws.

        I always liked that Telvanni architecture didn't have stairs because everyone who was important could fly and everyone who couldn't fly wasn't important. Nothing says "Slave Society" quite as hard as the masters simply levitating out of reach of their slaves.

    • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      what in skyrim? the economy seems entirely unthought through, like not enough thought to even default to capitalism

        • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          The nords are pale skinned settler colonialists from a northern continent who committed genocide against indigenous elves and are oppressing the native humans in the reach

          Their cultural hero is a genocidal settler who wielded an axe enchanted with racism

            • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              That’s true, but the elves, particularly the Ayleids

              The Ayleids are irrelevant here because they lived in what is now Cyrodiil and were brought down by a slave rebellion. Ironically you are being very racist by bringing up the Ayleids when the conversation was about the Falmer that the nords committed genocide against.

              • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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                3 years ago

                Ironically you are being very racist by bringing up the Ayleids when the conversation was about the Falmer that the nords committed genocide against.

                :shapiro-gavel:

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Watch the glorious Eight and the divine right of the Thalmor literally destroy SJW arguments for Orc personhood! :gun-shapiro: