Back in the 1990s and the Oughts, I loved conspiracy-based RPG settings and material. I devoured GURPS Illuminati, Delta Green, Kenneth Hite's Suppressed Transmission columns, and so on.
But in the last decade, I've moved away from them. Part of it may be that I realized that how many conspiracy theories ultimately originated in antisemitic slanders. Part of it might be their mainstreaming by the resurgent fascist right and their supporters. And, of course, the great villains of our day perpetrate all their villainy in the open, rarely even bothering to hide what they are doing.
So I no longer enjoy settings where "The Conspiracy" and their schemes are the main focus of the setting. While I don't mind having "small-c" conspiracies in a game, I don't like it when there is a secret cabal of conspirators running everything.
How about you? Do you still enjoy Conspiracy-based setting, or have you lost your taste for them as well?
Conspiracy theories were more fun when it was just a handful of lone cranks beating their own drum, before they got weaponised into QAnon and fascist/autocrat psyops. Nowadays, when you have older relatives reposting on Facebook about how Soros has lasers in space that will trans your kids to bring about communism, you don’t want to hear about the Illuminati.
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