How do you keep irl politics out of your games?

How do you keep irl politics out of your games?

Make radically different societies with such a mishmash network of ideologies that mapping real-world events to any one side or person is impossible.

Alternatively just tell those fuckers to knock that shit off.

Depends.
First, how ARE politics being an issue for your games?

put ALL the political meme thumbies up on your room's walls

By cultivating a good group filled with non-assholes. My group has nearly every political perspective represented and everyone gets along and doesn't let politics poison the game.

How? By eliminating the jerks. Good groups tend to attract good players. It's a virtuous cycle: when your players and game are good enough you can afford to be picky because good players seek you out.

Your part in the arrangement is to make sure that you are a good player. That takes effort. It also takes a couple years to cultivate a great group, and a willingness to cut bait when someone just isn't going to work out.

pull out a gun from behind GM screen

Perfect
Real-life politics is a fucking shitshow, and bringing them in game just kills the mood.

You don't put them in the game.

Ez

>Real-life politics is a fucking shitshow, and bringing them in game just kills the mood.
I know this feel.

I'm running a game set in the wild west and that's shit you don't think about when you first say "I wanna run a game set in the wild west" but when one player's black and playing a black character and another player wants to play a native dude and asks what things are like back home, it's like it all kinda comes at you at once.

>one player's black and playing a black character and another player wants to play a native dude and asks what things are like back home

Oh my

Had the "n-word" discussion with the player.
Mentioned the worst handling of the issue I ever saw, some CBS police procedural where every use of the word was replaced with "critter" ("we need these critters out of our neighborhood," "she's a critter lover," the words "CRITTERS OUT" written in spraypaint on the side of a house). The player laughed and declared we should just handle it that way.

So far the game's mostly just ignored the race thing, with one bait-and-switch where a drunk guy objected to having to share a bar with a left-handed person.

In my group, rveryone except me agrees on most issues. They practically walk in lock-step when it comes to opinions, and that opinion is whatever mainstream left-wing pundits have decided it is. Then you get me. The sole right-winger in the group. We (by which I mean 'I') avoid arguments by quickly insisting we move on whenever they get into their "Lol, fuck drumpf, got to keep those right-wing fascists under control, socialism for all" diatribes.
Thankfully, since the actual communist we used to have decided to go off to do communist things we have significantly fewer arguments.

>By eliminating the jerks
How do you dispose of bodies?

By not playing with autists. You should try it sometime.

One of my groups has Three Mormons(Conservatives), a Gay guy(liberal), two Centrists(including myself) and a progressivist. We have, for the last two years, including an election year, never discussed politics or any major issues... because that's not why we're friends. We enjoy our games and hobbies, chat about shit, and in general just get along and respect each other's personal decisions.

It's always one of those issues that are a huge pile of Shit to deal with online, but IRL, it's really not that spectacular.

Most of the time the settings are "medieval", and there is a ton of other magic and fantasy shit, so no one complains if slavery or caste system is in, everyone goes with it for the RP value and makes the best of it. Knowing there is a difference between reality and imagination is the only solution - I don't condone slavery or murdering anyone IRL, but don't hold me back when I'm playing a necromancer with a flair for flesh sculpting.
Helps that the only girl in the group is too busy shlicking off to her flirts with other nobles, while the rest of us are allowed to grind combat.

>It's always one of those issues that are a huge pile of Shit to deal with online, but IRL, it's really not that spectacular.
Fucking this. You get all those words that sound super serious (left/right, conservative, liberal, socialist, all that shit) but in real life most people, whatever are their political opinions, only want to get along other people.

Sulfuric peroxyde mixture followed by hydrofluoric acid.

By being, and playing with other, mature individuals who know when and when not to inject their personal political stances into games when they're not relevant.

This.

And I don't know if I'm lucky or what, but even in online RPGs I've played with people from Veeky Forums, politics never became a problem.

>Can identify every political position of every party member and be relatively specific
Sure, right, i bet you guys never talk about politics. Not even once, I believe you.

Stop being a massive fucking pussy and talk about things without getting triggered. You're an adult, speak to other human beings.

>War
>Sports
>Political parties that form in almost every form of government even when not intended
Human people always conflict or find a means to conflict. Your fantasy of people not conflicting is daft and disregards human history.

By not playing with spergs.

>not wanting to play Boss Nigger himself and playing his theme song every time he shoots a guy

i mean, there's two kinds of fun, i guess.

But user! They disagree with him!!!!
How could he let that stand?

simple, I have the most simple philosophy in all of existence. you hurt me and mine, you are more worthless than a heater in an inferno and I refuse to work with you unless I am ordered to by someone of more superiority, or necessity
you help me and mine, I welcome you with open arms. simple. everything else is down to pragmatism, that's how I do it and I have very few problems in my group

This is a good word around

Wouldn't you need the hydrofluoric acid first?

I don't think he said that, he's aware of his friends opinions and positions and has most likely had political discussion AT SOME POINT through the course of their friendship, it most likely just doesn't come up during games.

Actually a lot of cowboys were creole so there's a lot you can read up on that
Natives is a whole nother deal though

I don't see a point at the gaming table, sure at a party, when driving from one place to another, even over lunch, bit not at the gaming table. All it takes is one person taking it too far and ruining game night.

God damn it, I meant "work" around

You don't discuss sports, religion, or politics at the dinner table, or at least you didn't used to.

Same rule for gaming.

this works too, unless you need to for the game to work
eg country A wants country B's resource

From what I've heard, when a game becomes ruined by politics, SJWs ruin it slowly over the course of sessions, but /pol/acks pretty much suddenly nuke it. I'd figure it would be the other way around, but examples I can think of (and rather not mention to avoid derailing) would say it's the other way around.
Any warning signs that I may be entering someone's political realm and what to do about it?

I play with civil adults who don't mistake edgy transgressive bunk or being offensive for intelligent political discourse.

So, don't play with Veeky Forums basically.

I play with normal adult human beings.

Tell everyone no IRL politics in the game.

yes, it gets pretty frustrating when shitlords start to spew out shit about politics in the middle of a game, fights may break out and friendships made awkward

>Don't play with Veeky Forums/tumblr/Reddit/Twitter/anyone else who uses the outrage machine known as the internet.

Is this more accurate?

I don't go joy-popping with bubblegummers. My friends can handle their highs.

>"No politics. If you talk politics on my table, you're out. No second chances. Capice?"

Works wonders.

By playing with nihilists

Other than a weird incident at a bowling alley, everything has gone fine

>Weird Incident at a bowling alley
You know the drill user.

Never had it pop up outside of a some one-time jokes.

He's referencing The Big Lebowski, you turd.

This. I've been gaming for 20+ years and never had any problems with politics leaking into gaming.

The closest was when a friend who was gming at the time, said no political talk at the table, after the trump election.

I just don't play with right wingers.

Give it to them straight.

It sounds like they're asking for a grim, gritty game.

>right wingers are the problem
It's more a problem with people trying to shove gay marriage, gender politics, and socialized medicine into a a game about stabbing dragons and taking their shit.

>it's more a problem with things I don't like

Fixed.

We managed 47 posts lads, good job.

Pretty sure that's a new record.

Anybody got the Gay Marrige Lich story?

Purge the Heretic and you shall find no dissent

"Hey guys, don't be a prick and bring your political bullshit into the game. Not the time nor the place. You can't do that? Then get the fuck out" And then kick them out if they don't listen.

See. Its easy. And if you wan't to run games that deal with real world bullshit, don't make that campaign your first one with any given group. Play that shit with people you know wont fuck it all up.

Murder.

This site is 18+ bud.

Is it "orcs versus humans" thing that makes /pol/ think they belong here?

>EVERYONE I DON'T LIKE IS /POL/
>screams autistically

Then leave.

I have a strict "No politics at the game table" rule.

>he says while masturbating his 3" underage penis to cuckold porn

> shitposts
> can't stop talking about cuckolding
> has a collection of images to battle imaginary redditors
> gets triggered by /pol/ memes

You are not fooling anyone here, kiddo.

>he says while greentexting with reddit spacing and failing to quote posts properly
So are you from /r/FeelTheBern or are you from /r/HillaryClinton?

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>y-y-you're just projecting I swear!
>cried the plebbitor as he orgasmed in time with the amateur cuckold porn film he found on /r/cuckold

Literally all Leftists act like that

Tell your players to shut the fuck up about politics. Tell the GM to shut the fuck up about politics.
Tell yourself to shut the fuck up about politics most of all.

Not your safespace, you anti white faggot

Holy shit you two, just fuck already.

You were the one that started talking about cuckold porn fag lord.
So you don't know anyone that is not /pol/ faggot?

It's like an attack of walking talking propaganda posters of "become Stalininst so that you can put pol degenerates into gulags".


What are mods doing?

This.

But only if the /pol/ guy tops. sjws getting their boypussys bullied is my fetish.

My group got a lot of irony so we often joke and strawmen our own political side.

>he says while guiltily closing the tab in his incognito window, knowing that his mother will hopefully never find out about his hidden fetish

Helicopter's that way buddy

I disagree. You can generally tell what you're getting into. SJWs don't necessarily ruin it over sessions, but instead just get more comfortable with inserting their personal politics since no one is stopping them. Think of it like a kid testing how far they can get away with something before they're caught.

Meanwhile, /pol/ does nuke it all at once. You might go three sessions with no problems, or so you think. Just innocent backdrops. Until all this sudden there is a sudden mecha-hitler worship tier bullshit.

Honest to God? The best indication you're about to get into a political realm is the person and the set up. Generally speaking, the more radical the person, the more likely they'll inject their politics. You rarely meet a Centrist who wants to include his centrist ideals.

Anyways, more often than not, it's not hard to notice. Just know those who you're playing with, and if you ARE going to play with strangers, be prepared to enter the Magical or Political Realm at least once.

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The /pol/ retard keeps talking about cuckold porn so that is not going to happen.

>u-ur gay!
>said the cuckold as he struggles with his repressed sexuality and craving for tyrone's big black cock
>MUH /POL/ MUH /POL/ SKREEEEEEEE
>STOP RUINING MY FETISH SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Your posts were kinda funny in a really stupid way but now you are going full retard and now it's just sad.

I've never encountered any obvious political realms yet, so I wouldn't know. I only know of non-Veeky Forums related things becoming politicized into living strawmen. Transformations into SJWs are usually abrupt, and transformations into /pol/acks are gradual. It's also important to note that I am talking about people becoming this living strawmen, not how political realms are introduced, so tabletop might be different because of how people might already be political before hand. I hesitate to give examples.

It's like I'm witnessing a witch-hunt on /tv/!

>haha ur a cuck xD
>lol reddit xD
Literally your only arguments. I wonder who truly is reddit in this situation?
It's you. You're reddit. _donald

>DUM DUM JUST LIKE DRUMPF HARUMPH

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>U-UR JUST A PLEBBITOR LIEK ME!!!!!1111one1
Not so fast /r/MarchAgainstTrump. I'm afraid /r/the_donald isn't the most rightwing group on this site, unlike your's. Best head back to your safe space where the worst thing you'll see is wannabe neocon zionist alt-litey kiddos.

Are you two fucking yet?

It's hard for political leanings to seep through a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland lacking any form of government.

xD! le SHITPOST MAYMAY! WE DID IT REDDIT!

UPDOOTED!

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thanks for ruining this thread, I guess

glad you like making this board actively much much worse

>unlike your's

LE FUNNI CHINA MAN xD

BASED GOOKS IN LE MAGA CAP xD

And this is why I don't play with right wingers.

Way to prove my point, nobgobbler. Also nice buzzwords, I wonder where you got those from?
>I'm afraid /r/the_donald isn't the most rightwing group on this site
>I'm a big boy now, I go on /pol/!
Typical t_d immigrant, gb2reddit.

It's not like this was not going to happen sooner or later with a thread like this.

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>Y-YOU'RE REDDIT. NOT ME, I SWEAR!
>W-WAIT A MINUTE, JUST LET ME UPVOTE ON THIS LE EBIC POST WITH LE BASED NIGGER xD
Plebbit truly is hilarious. What was that about projection again?

Nah. I said what I meant.

Communism could be a good plot. Stalin could be a generic BBEG, but not necessary boring.