DND fulfills our deepest fantasies
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My favorite one-shot that I’ve ever ran involved the PCs being hired by a city to go kill some kobolds. The kobolds had taken over their mine, had fortified the place, and were violently rejecting any attempts to make them leave.
When the PCs arrive, it’s basically as described: The mine is overrun with kobolds, who have erected makeshift barricades and are armed with crossbows.
In actuality, the city had hired the kobolds to mine the ore for them, but then refused to pay them after taking delivery. It’s a labor dispute, and the PCs had been hired to kill them because nobody would question some adventurers killing some kobolds. The players discovered this and were upset enough about being lied to that they joined the kobolds’ side and basically acted as the (very well-armed and aggressive) union reps, negotiating better pay and more favorable terms for them. Was a great time.
This is the best sort of rpg story, in my humble opinion.
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You know what that’s called, right? It’s class consciousness. When people’s power fantasies are union organizing, that implies there is a degree of cultural hegemony going on and that’s pretty neat.
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Unions is not socialism.
Socialism is when the corporations are both owned and controlled by the workers of those companies themselves.
Unions are a tool of the working class in the class struggle. Not sufficient for socialism, but kinda necessary.
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Player: I want to ask this road worker about their job.
GM: They tell you that they are perfectly happy with their job. They say they work short hours, get paid well and have a contract with very favourable terms that prevent them from being fired arbitrarily. All of their colleagues seem to feel the same way.
Player: Hm, what if they’re lying?
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Remeber, kids: Laws are threats made by the dominate socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence and police are basically an occupying army.
I mean, we use different terms (“social contract”, “law and order”, “state monopoly on violence”), but that’s what it boils down to.
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Unions is not socialism.
Socialism is when the corporations are both owned and controlled by the workers of those companies themselves.
Collective bargaining is capitalism.
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Player: I want to ask this road worker about their job.
GM: They tell you that they are perfectly happy with their job. They say they work short hours, get paid well and have a contract with very favourable terms that prevent them from being fired arbitrarily. All of their colleagues seem to feel the same way.
Player: Hm, what if they’re lying?
They’re absolutely lying get the pamphlets and cast a zone of truth.
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This but actually. Dnd is not the best system to live out the group’s actual fantasy of social revolution, and that’s what my groups tend to want to do.
Come to think of it, can anyone here suggest a good rpg system to simulate working people siezing the means of production from the bourgeoisie?
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You know to make interesting rpg stories, you need bad people, and being bad means you underpay worker and take all the money from their work.
If dwarves get a 15beer a hour minimal wage, they won’t have a reason to fight the Dragon they work for
Thank you! You just gave me a new bbeg!
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Our party tries to extort money from every single NPC we encounter. Our rouge would probably asks for the jewels of the deceased person at a funeral or otherwise we would not help the town to fend of the goblin invaders (which then costs something as well of course).
Why would makeup need jewels…?
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Remeber, kids: Laws are threats made by the dominate socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence and police are basically an occupying army.
Had to go find a clip of this because the delivery makes it even better, like a militant socialist afterschool special:
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This but actually. Dnd is not the best system to live out the group’s actual fantasy of social revolution, and that’s what my groups tend to want to do.
Come to think of it, can anyone here suggest a good rpg system to simulate working people siezing the means of production from the bourgeoisie?
Cthulhu RPG except the workers are cultists and the means of production old ass artifacts that summon non-euclidean deities.
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I played with a group that defeated a boss by unionizing his minions against him so they could have a worker owned dungeon. I played another campaign where i turned a kingdom over to its field workers and abdicated and destroyed the monarchy after defeating its ruler.
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Had to go find a clip of this because the delivery makes it even better, like a militant socialist afterschool special:
The delivery sells it entirely. He’s like the guy coming in to talk about drugs with a baseball cap and sitting backwards in the chair, but it’s about cops and molotovs instead.
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Why would makeup need jewels…?
Sparkly rouge
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This is how you get killed irl, by embracing the “happy slave” trope
If only. So many people repeated this lie in the past and never got their comeuppance
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If only. So many people repeated this lie in the past and never got their comeuppance
You’re right, I was thinking about my friends and tabletop groups
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If you don’t have a copy of the little red songbook, can you really call yourself a bard?
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Remeber, kids: Laws are threats made by the dominate socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence and police are basically an occupying army.
Yeah, my character is realizing that the nobles that want to depose the king in favor of a ruling council are themselves just as corrupt if not more, and that the only real answer is a worker’s revolution. So this might end up being a bit of an influence in this weekend’s events.
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Sounds like a great party to do an Acq Inc campaign. They play as their own business and can have evil corporations as enemies. It’s great fun
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