where does your world that you made for rpgs (or something else, like a novel series like i'm planning to do, the rpg is just for my friends) fit on the political compass? authright? libright? libleft? authright? center? this is a question of 'what ideology does your world support and how'.

my own world lands predominately in the center due to the fact that reality is subjective, thus making everyone from Ayn Rand to Stalin correct about what they're saying.

The only thing that's solid is that the spread of Gnosis by a God-like being (think: Father from Gnosticism) that will bring propserity to humanity. But even Gnosis is kept ambigious.

Always a mix.  Having just one country/culture around is boring.

Quote from: MeganovaStella on December 09, 2022, 02:53:45 PM
where does your world that you made for rpgs (or something else, like a novel series like i'm planning to do, the rpg is just for my friends) fit on the political compass? authright? libright? libleft? authright? center? this is a question of 'what ideology does your world support and how'.

my own world lands predominately in the center due to the fact that reality is subjective, thus making everyone from Ayn Rand to Stalin correct about what they're saying.

The only thing that's solid is that the spread of Gnosis by a God-like being (think: Father from Gnosticism) that will bring propserity to humanity. But even Gnosis is kept ambigious.

I literally can't imagine having an entire RPG setting that only conformed to a single political ideology.

Burn the Witches!!!

Any Fantasy game I run will fall squarely into the Medieval-Authentic adjacent Elfgame political compass.

Also this:

Quote from: Jam The MF on December 09, 2022, 04:53:01 PM
Burn the Witches!!!

Subsidiarity.

If you have to look it up, do so. Then we'll talk.

It works beautifully for just about any good-aligned society in whatever setting you're putting together.

It's also anti-Gnostic because those guys have been fucking up the world for thousands of years (including its present day incarnations - scientism and transhumanism).

Each world has a different slant on government, while there may be similarities to the current political structures of our world today, it doesn't always fit.

How would you classify a loose association of people who are related by familiar ties and own their own slower-than-light starships which can travel very close to the speed of light (causing relativistic effects) that wander through the galaxy? When they leave a world and its uniqueness behind, it may be hundreds of thousands of years before visiting it again. makes it tough to pigeonhole into the political compass of our Real World.

Quote from: Bruwulf on December 09, 2022, 04:32:08 PM

Quote from: MeganovaStella on December 09, 2022, 02:53:45 PM
where does your world that you made for rpgs (or something else, like a novel series like i'm planning to do, the rpg is just for my friends) fit on the political compass? authright? libright? libleft? authright? center? this is a question of 'what ideology does your world support and how'.

my own world lands predominately in the center due to the fact that reality is subjective, thus making everyone from Ayn Rand to Stalin correct about what they're saying.

The only thing that's solid is that the spread of Gnosis by a God-like being (think: Father from Gnosticism) that will bring propserity to humanity. But even Gnosis is kept ambigious.

I literally can't imagine having an entire RPG setting that only conformed to a single political ideology.

that's easy to imagine. a world where only one ideology is right.

Well, mostly feudalism with a few cases of predatory capitalism in the case of guild councils.  Sure you'll get a king here and there who tries buying popularity but most find it cheaper and more effective to buy soldiers.

My "Evil Kingdoms" D&D world is a bit different in that the powerful rule.  If you're not a well supported high level character, don't even try to get into politics.  The city of Tajorm is governed by the board of the wizard's school but even they tend to defer mundane matters to the guild council.  There's the trade town of Thortus that's on the back of a dragon turtle.  The turtle has an outright veto on all council decisions since nobody wants to wind up treading water in the middle of the ocean.

It's a Bronze Age to Antiquity type world so I imagine they have moral, ethical and political systems quite different to those of the modern day.

Everything from priest kings and queens to elder councils, might makes right or will of the people.

Quote from: MeganovaStella on December 09, 2022, 07:31:43 PM

that's easy to imagine. a world where only one ideology is right.

... so? Even if there was objectively one "right" ideology, that doesn't mean everyone is going to agree with it. There are groups, cultures, even whole countries even in our world that I would say have as close to an objectively wrong ideology as is possible, yet they still exist.

The most politically 1-sided campaign we ever ran was RoboTech with Zentraedi officers in a fleet of 30 warships in a military campaign to find, fix, and destroy any and all Invid colony planets before they could become a threat. 

With that as a back drop it was about as authoritarian as you can get.  No prisoners taken, kill them all.  Even Jonny Rico of Starship Troopers was never this single minded. 

Unfortunately, this leads to almost no role playing.  It lasted only a few sessions. 

Then we bought Rifts and never looked back. 

As for politics, we generally just played self serving mercs and had really grey morals.  A job that pays well was a job.  We knew enough to not work for the really awful people, but rescuing civilians for no payout wasn't a daily event. 

Quote from: Bruwulf on December 09, 2022, 08:25:15 PM

Quote from: MeganovaStella on December 09, 2022, 07:31:43 PM

that's easy to imagine. a world where only one ideology is right.

... so? Even if there was objectively one "right" ideology, that doesn't mean everyone is going to agree with it. There are groups, cultures, even whole countries even in our world that I would say have as close to an objectively wrong ideology as is possible, yet they still exist.

sorry, hold on, let me clarify, i was being imprecise

a world where there is only one ideology that is right and most people follow it. those who don't are shown to be idiots, or worse, villains, and are soon defeated.

Sure, "Might Is Right" is the guiding principle in most feudal societies.  In Traveller it's "Money Is Right" but money is really just a handy might tracking counter.

Quote from: MeganovaStella on December 09, 2022, 09:20:42 PM

sorry, hold on, let me clarify, i was being imprecise

a world where there is only one ideology that is right and most people follow it. those who don't are shown to be idiots, or worse, villains, and are soon defeated.

No. I'm not woke, I don't need my RPGs to be hugbox affirmation sessions. I make it a point to *fix* settings that do that before I use them. I have no interest in playing Thirsty Sword Lesbians, even if it did agree with my politics.