Hey you know how there are always those meme post going around of someone, usually a white dude, talking about how there should be a reverse indiana jones about someone stealing from museum and giving it back to the people it belong to? Then you should support me on my patreon.
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My name is Gar Atkins, and I'm a professional Indigenous (ᏣᎳᎩᏱ ᏕᏣᏓᏂᎸᎩ) game designer (previously: Evil Hat, Blaseball, my own shit...) with a background in museum work and I've been making that for the past 3 years in the form of a TTRPG called Protect The Sacred.
Protect The Sacred is an Anti-colonial* two-fisted adventure set in a pulp universe (including horror, sci-fi, mystery, and romance) where players play a team of adventure types with magic powers working to Protect, Preserve, and Reclaim the workings of magic as an expression of the intangible goods of culture on behalf and on the terms of the peoples they belong to. Monsters, Magic, and Mystical Artifacts are all on the table as you explore magical otherspaces, secret world and learn to be a better neighbor.
This game looks to interrogate the role of museums and the role they play (what they could be in the future), the actual challenges facing repatriation and what it means. It wants to tackle the legacy of pulp. It wants to ask you to consider what you consider culture, why it's important, and what it means to you through self-definition and roleplay. It also wants to punch fascist and dismantle the stolen and hollow valor they claim.
I got a lot of work left on this project. But I would love your support. This looks to be a 300+ page rpg and I'm a good portion of the way through it all.
*I use anti-colonial as opposed to decolonial because actual decolonial precepts requires concrete action with material results and decries symbolic or token gestures. And while my game can be many things and hopefully gets people talking about some of these subject, it's hardly the work.
