As you may have heard, our friends and partners at Roll20/DriveThruRPG are making news for their admirable stance against the scourge of games with “overt political agendas or views” by delisting Ninth Level Games’ RPG, Rebel Scum. This problem, it seems, is even more pervasive than originally thought. I myself was paging through our own release, Velvet Generation, and saw that somehow, politics had even snuck into that! It turns out this game encourages characters rising up and toppling a global authoritarian regime, which sounds like it might be more than a little…political.

But we can’t stamp out this problem all on our own. DriveThruRPG’s original takedown of Rebel Scum was only possible through a helpful brigade of commenters who reported it for being unecessarily cruel to space Nazis. So we need your help as the gaming audience writ large to determine just how overt these political agendas and views may be in our own games.

DriveThruRPG is making it especially easy for you to help by making Velvet Generation today’s Deal of the Day, taking 60% off the PDF price until midnight tonight. And we’re matching that offer by selling Velvet Generation in print (softcover) for the original Kickstarter price of $35 USD.

Please, we implore you, help us, DriveThruRPG and their owners at Roll20 to address this plague of politics in gaming by getting today’s Deal of the Day, possibly even a print copy, examining it in detail and providing a full report on any unsavory political themes or agendas you might find.

Together, we will finally make gaming apolitical again.