Bringing the conversation over here. Not sure if the publicly posted link got clicked before I was able to?
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you said it yourself, it doesn't necessarily mean there's something wrong with ttrpgs. But there could be. Do you have to look for it? I don't think so, but I think it's probably worthwhile to do the investigating.
Fascism (for example) doesn't exist in isolation. The idea didn't spring fully formed from nothing. While it's fallacious to say that anything overlapping with it is automatically tainted, it's also fallacious to say that it automatically isn't.
Will you clarify "system neutral"?
In my experience, some people use it to mean neutral to D&D-esque games (e.g. using HD but not more detailed stats), others further distance themselves by using mostly verbal cues but still include things like random tables that assume people have dice associated with specific systems (e.g. if I'm playing GURPS or Shadowrun, I'm not guaranteed to have a d8 or d%), and some are even further removed.
Cool! But I don't see it in my files when I go to https://gnarledmonster.itch.io/beyond-the-borderlands-1 The latest file I see is from December.
Best I could find is watabou's github repository. This isn't there, though, only some other projects. https://github.com/watabou?tab=repositories