Hi Mike! S'funny, as far as the race thing goes, I'd never pictured yours in any direction. You were always just "The Guy that wrote CP" in my mind. No other attributes. I've rarely made a big deal about race in my games, unless skinheads showed up (as they so often do, unfortunately). Race, as an issue, has always struck me that way. Maybe it's the half-Jewish (but not religious or culturally so) thing I got going on (If ya wanna know which half, I'd have to reply "From the waist up."). Maybe because the only time race became an issue for me was some moron planting their boot on my neck. Man, in any case CP2020 gave me a rare and much needed psychological steam-valve to deal with that bullshit. Whenever we got skinhead-analogues (frack, any right-wing intolerance-mongers'd do...) visible in public, it was hard for whoever was GM to keep things even vaguely on track.
I still remember one game where the GM had spent months getting his story and materials together. Through three campaigns he worked tirelessly on his own run, refining, taking good ideas and making them better... If there's one thing he really should have learned through all this prep was not to start our game with a jeering walkby of Chrome Legionnaires... Three months of gaming three nights a week later, his plot got to start
And yeah, I'm aware of the apparent irony involved in hating bigots with a bigot-like zeal, and have grown up and moved on to pity. But if I saw them actively fucking with people (as they are want to do) then yeah, probably straight back to my edgerunner rage
Incidentally, my girlfriend claims I get ranty on the third day of quitting smoking. Ranty and aggressive. Personally, I think that's absolute fracking garbage, and she's just saying that because of her secret gay liberal agenda...
